Colorado

[Latestarter]

Greetings @captivatedlife and welcome to BYC and the Colorado thread!

Just so you know, we're all pic addicts... So when did you start you chicken addiction, and has the chicken math hit you yet?

 

[captivatedlife]

Fortunately chicken math did hit! We went in for 6 came out with 8(!). We went with 2 of each type: Ameraucana, Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Red, and barred rock. We placed them in a prominent spot in the living room to watch them. I know they will get stinky and annoying but I it just for a little while.

Here are the cuties!

 

[maggiemo]

Welcome Caplife!
Cute chicks! I am waiting for some chicks to be shipped and this makes the waiting harder!

 

[COChix]

Fortunately chicken math did hit! We went in for 6 came out with 8(!). We went with 2 of each type: Ameraucana, Buff Orpington, Rhode Island Red, and barred rock. We placed them in a prominent spot in the living room to watch them. I know they will get stinky and annoying but I it just for a little while.

Here are the cuties!

Cute chicks, are you using a heat pad? Thought it looked like one in the background..

 

[captivatedlife]

We have a heating pad and a heating lamp. We are reusing snake supplies (we also have 2 wonderful, calm, gentle ball pythons. No we're not feeding them chicks! That's what everyone asks when we say we're adding chickens!). We'll turn off the heat pad today or tomorrow and hope the heat goes down to the next stage.

@maggiemo - Yay for the waiting for the chicks! It will be worth the wait once they are in! They are soooooooooooooo veeeeerrrryyy CUTE!

 

[Latestarter]

Now that's a new one for me... Chicks in a terrarium! AWESOME! Gives all new meaning to chick(en) TV! They look great!

 

[coop410silkies]

Cut a smaller hole in the door on the side where the chicks are and it took them no time at all to be out with the adults. We have begun integration, they have access to their side and hopefully none of the adults can fit in the door. The babies will have to be rounded up and shown where their heat pad cave mama is tonight. They will hopefully learn how to go in and out of the coop by themselves over the next week or so. They are are three weeks old today and So far things today have gone great with the adults.

This is such a cool set up. One caution: sometimes - and this is the voice of experience talking here - a bird will linger and remain on the threshold of a portal. One of my baby chicks actually got trampled and killed when he did this, and on another occasion, with older pullets, a pullet remained in the doorway long enough to keep another from entering and being sheltered from the snow; in this instance, I found the excluded pullet frozen to death in the morning. I'm sure you've seen chickens settling in for the night in a doorway - if they can - looking out. In my flocks, it's usually a rooster, and he's on guard. I read about this happening, and I can affirm that it does happen. Just another thing to keep an eye on, more or less. Mmmmm, hope your chicks and you continue to have a smooth ride.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Welcome captivatedlife!
60 mph winds and snow showers tonight for us....

 

[Latestarter]

Batten down the hatches Margie! Guess you can expect that for the next couple of days...

 

[uzisuzuki]

Holy smokes, that wind! I think I got caught in a microburst while trying to get all the birds rounded up. Hope no one had major damages from it!