Colorado

[Adam7]

I'm also zoned same as you guys (RS-5000). I'm further north in the springs, but I'm technically about 4 houses outside the city limit and HOA. 

Nice! That's a close call. I hate HOA's. I just worked on a customers house in the springs that in a HOA, she could have horses but she wasn't allowed to have chickens?! A lot of sense that makes. The hole neighborhood smells like horse farts and the lowly chicken gets the boot.

 

[Adam7]

Omg.. My OE chick is driving me nuts.. So noisy!! I think I am going to have to get rid of her, I don't think I can handle being woke up 4-5 times a night...or I wonder if I move them to the garage instead of the basement..

 

[Mtn Margie]

Omg.. My OE chick is driving me nuts.. So noisy!! I think I am going to have to get rid of her, I don't think I can handle being woke up 4-5 times a night...or I wonder if I move them to the garage instead of the basement..

Give it a couple of more days. I had a noisy one that finally settled down.

 

[krcchickens]

Do you think I need an additional feeder? These girls don't give clean water 5 minutes and they have to kick bedding in it. I had my first escapee yesterday. Had to put a lid on the open end of the brooder.

 

[Mtn Margie]

You can raise their water up so that it stays cleaner, like on a flipped over pie tin or something that puts it about chest high to them.

 

[coloradogal]

Omg.. My OE chick is driving me nuts.. So noisy!! I think I am going to have to get rid of her, I don't think I can handle being woke up 4-5 times a night...or I wonder if I move them to the garage instead of the basement..

I agree with Margie, sometimes they settle down. Sadly, sometimes it means they are in distress and failure to thrive. Then they will chirp incessantly until they chirp no more. Is the little guy eating and drinking?

 

[maggiemo]

Omg.. My OE chick is driving me nuts.. So noisy!! I think I am going to have to get rid of her, I don't think I can handle being woke up 4-5 times a night...or I wonder if I move them to the garage instead of the basement..

I wish I went and got your chicks now. My broody really needs some babies.

The feed stores won't get any in until this weekend.

Cute chicks krcchickens!

 

[wsmith]

Do you think I need an additional feeder? These girls don't give clean water 5 minutes and they have to kick bedding in it. I had my first escapee yesterday. Had to put a lid on the open end of the brooder.

It should work for now, but they will soon grow out of it. Chickens don't do well with proper manner. They poop in their food and water, scratch bedding into it, and scatter it all over the place.
After the first week I usually start introducing them to foraging. I do this by giving them food out of my hand, then putting it directly onto the bedding. After a while I scatter some around and they go after it. Pretty soon they do this on their own anyway, but I like to get them started early.

As previously stated, raise up the water and feeder. It helps, but doesn't take care ot the mess completely. Pertty soon they will be flying up and perching on top of the feeder and waterer.

 

[krcchickens]

Thanks, maggiemo and Mnt Margie.

 

[coloradogal]

Quick question: I had a chick hatch overnight. Around the yolk sak, there was blood. It wasn't tons but a little. I have never seen that before. The chick seems to be resting and I can see the yolk sak and it looks normal now. The blood was still wettish looking when I woke up so assumed it had just hatched.

I've done some byc investigations and have heard that the chick may have missed a step in the hatching process. I'm leaving the chick alone. Anyone ever had this happen? I've read that for some chicks, they are fine and they just finished absorbing after hatch, instead of before. Then I've read that the chick will be failure to thrive. I've never seen it.

The other thing that I was surprised at is the number of posts I've read where people assist the hatch who see blood. I've only had to do this a couple of times when it was apparent something was wrong. So does the crappy prognosis of failure to thrive have more to do with assisted hatched and not natural ones?

I guess we'll find out.