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@CleverTwist be careful, chicken wire will not keep predators out.So Covid-19 is probably why I even know about this site. Crazy really, but I became worried over possible food shortages and decided to change a few things around that could help us self sustain..one of which led to chickens! I didn’t know how much I would like these creatures whatsoever, but I’m a possible addict! I first read about different breeds and which lay a bunch of eggs and decided white leghorns is what I’m on the hunt for. I planned on 20 chicks. Well, TS had a limit of 8 per breed (apparently I wasn’t the only one with my idea lol). So I bought my 8 white leghorn pullets and ended up choosing 8 Welsummer straight run after overhearing what cool dark brown eggs they lay and how friendly/ docile they are so what the heck! Then I became worried the leghorns would be wild and crazy so I read some more and became determined to tame them. That’s where mealworms came in (they became my instant friends..caught on quick!) But while buying the worms, TS had a batch of Amberlinks and a limit of 5 so there I went home with some more pullets! Fast forward 10 more days, I’m at Rural King buying chicken wire and they are loaded completely up with chicks! Well I see the other breed I was after because of all of the researching I’ve been doing and there’s 2 varieties: Colombian and Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. I wanted Golden Laced, but hey this BLR version sounds cool so I bought 6 straight run and home I went. Then I researched the breed and I was wowed by them so I went back and bought 6 more! I seemed to have a bunch of lightish colored ones so after a long time reading and searching, I learned about splash, black, blue. I said ut oh..I have mostly splash...so I went back and bought the 6 darkest ones to even the flock outI’ve lost my freaking mind, but I love these things! I’m cleaning pasty butt, putting probiotics in clean water daily with electrolytes. I check them constantly and even separated a couple out to their own spot when I thought they seemed slower than the others...put honey in their water and more probiotics after that..a couple days and back to group. So far so good, but I’m dang lucky because I live on a horse farm and luckily I have all kinds of room..2 fully closed horse stalls off on their own never being used plus a chicken coop the size of a stall 12 x 12. And now I refurbished the kids trampoline for a daytime area for the teenage chicks that I can move around. But yes, I’m definitely pretty much crazy
lol #Covid19hasanupside
