Hello everyone!
I'm Katie and my family is located in east central Kansas. I've always planned on my daughter doing 4H when she is older. I had hoped chickens, rabbits, and (please please please) goats, but that is still years away so we've started a tad earlier than I expected too. Two weeks ago mystubborn 4 year old convinced me to get her 6 chicks from our local farm store who is so nice to "celebrate" CHICK DAYS for a few months during spring 
. Lets be honest, it's basically a petting zoo featuring chicks, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
I've "chicken sat" for family friends before and I've wanted chickens myself but I was not prepared for them at all. I know how to fill up a feed dish and waterer and how to collect eggs but raising chicks is a lot scarier and overwhelming than I expected. I had nothing ready for them so they went into a large tote which I sat in my bathtub and they have been doing great. I have 2 inside dogs and 2 insides cats and although 1 dog and 1 cat were fairly interested we thankfully had no issues.
We have 2 plymouth rock pullets that hopefully my daughter will be able to show for 4H in the future and 2 black sex link pullets and 2 red sex link pullets. We got the 2 plymouth rocks and 1 black link first and then after doing some research (on this site I believe) I read that small flocks are happiest with 6-8 so we went back to the store and got 3 more.
Yesterday while lounging in my living room I started to hear a lot of rustling in the bathroom and after going into investigate I discovered the little turds were trying to fly so although I wasn't quite ready to send them outside to their dog crate turned chicken brooder that is now where they are.
I bought large brackets to set the brooder off the floor and away from anything that a predator could use to climb up to the crate so it's about 4 ft off the ground. Then I used chain to secure it to the garage rafters. I wrapped it in chicken wire with cardboard in between the cage wire and chicken wire. I hope it's alright!
I'm a huge animal lover and although these chicks are driving me nuts and stressing me out I'm so concerned about their health and safety. Plus my daughter will not handle it well if something happens to them.
So we have 4 cats, 2 outside/2 inside, and 4 dogs, 2 outside/2 inside and now 6 chicks
. My brother came over last week and informed me that we will be receiving his two horses in the upcoming month because our pasture is doing better than his, so we will have lots going on this summer!
Very long post, sorry lol Since tonight is the chicks first night outside I'm worried that I won't sleep very well so I'm going to entertain myself with this website for awhile. Looking forward to learning a lot from this site and all of you!
-Katie
I'm Katie and my family is located in east central Kansas. I've always planned on my daughter doing 4H when she is older. I had hoped chickens, rabbits, and (please please please) goats, but that is still years away so we've started a tad earlier than I expected too. Two weeks ago my
. Lets be honest, it's basically a petting zoo featuring chicks, ducks, geese, and turkeys. I've "chicken sat" for family friends before and I've wanted chickens myself but I was not prepared for them at all. I know how to fill up a feed dish and waterer and how to collect eggs but raising chicks is a lot scarier and overwhelming than I expected. I had nothing ready for them so they went into a large tote which I sat in my bathtub and they have been doing great. I have 2 inside dogs and 2 insides cats and although 1 dog and 1 cat were fairly interested we thankfully had no issues.
We have 2 plymouth rock pullets that hopefully my daughter will be able to show for 4H in the future and 2 black sex link pullets and 2 red sex link pullets. We got the 2 plymouth rocks and 1 black link first and then after doing some research (on this site I believe) I read that small flocks are happiest with 6-8 so we went back to the store and got 3 more.
Yesterday while lounging in my living room I started to hear a lot of rustling in the bathroom and after going into investigate I discovered the little turds were trying to fly so although I wasn't quite ready to send them outside to their dog crate turned chicken brooder that is now where they are.
I bought large brackets to set the brooder off the floor and away from anything that a predator could use to climb up to the crate so it's about 4 ft off the ground. Then I used chain to secure it to the garage rafters. I wrapped it in chicken wire with cardboard in between the cage wire and chicken wire. I hope it's alright!
I'm a huge animal lover and although these chicks are driving me nuts and stressing me out I'm so concerned about their health and safety. Plus my daughter will not handle it well if something happens to them.
So we have 4 cats, 2 outside/2 inside, and 4 dogs, 2 outside/2 inside and now 6 chicks
Very long post, sorry lol Since tonight is the chicks first night outside I'm worried that I won't sleep very well so I'm going to entertain myself with this website for awhile. Looking forward to learning a lot from this site and all of you!
-Katie
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