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Mar 26, 2020
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Hello my name is Sarah and I'm from a small town in Western North Carolina and I have just got my first batch of chicks today. I'm not a complete beginner at all of this because my parents had chickens when I was a younger but they sadly got rid of them over the years, but now that I'm old enough they have decided to let me raise chicks but all with my own money of course :) currently I have a 50 gal tote in my bedroom with a red light heat lamp, pine shavings and the raised water container along with a raised food container, also I have 12 chicks (6 Jersey Giants and 6 lilac orphintons) I honestly don't know the genders yet because in true tractor supply fashion they are straight runs and there is no pullets in a 100 mile radius. The next thing I wanted to mention is my reason for getting chicks, it may sound kinda odd to most ppl but I got chickens because my grandpa that sadly passed 8 yrs ago was a avid chicken keeper and in a way I wanted to experience the same thing he experienced many yrs ago AND I have been into the farm life as long as I can remember so raising the chicks is giving me a piece of that😊 I have only found one dis-like to chicken keeping and that is this motherly instinct drive that makes me worry about them too much 😂 well imma wrap this up because I hear my chicks getting quite so I better check on them😂 bye
 
The Life On A Farm said:
Hello and welcome to BYC, there is so much information on all types of animals here. You are going to love it! Do you have any pictures of your chicks?
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Thank you for the welcome! And I don't have any pics of them now, but I'll definitely take some pictures of them in the morning when they are a bit more relaxed and I'll post them here:)
 
Hello, Sarah, and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
Keeping chickens is a beautiful way to honor your grandfathers memory.
Your little tote is not going to hold that many chicks for more than 2 weeks. I would also drop the wattage of the bulb down to a 120 watt bulb in a few days and lower it if needed. That's a lot of heat for such a small container.
I really hope your coop and run are finished and ready to go so that brood has a bigger place to move to.
If you do have your coop and run ready to go and you don't have any chickens in it, you can finish brooding the chicks directly in the coop.
Best of luck!
 
DobieLover said:
Hello, Sarah, and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
Keeping chickens is a beautiful way to honor your grandfathers memory.
Your little tote is not going to hold that many chicks for more than 2 weeks. I would also drop the wattage of the bulb down to a 120 watt bulb in a few days and lower it if needed. That's a lot of heat for such a small container.
I really hope your coop and run are finished and ready to go so that brood has a bigger place to move to.
If you do have your coop and run ready to go and you don't have any chickens in it, you can finish brooding the chicks directly in the coop.
Best of luck!
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Im currently working on the coop:) but I'm not that good with woodworking so it's taking a bit longer than I expected 😂 also im going to let them free range in our yard because it's fenced in and I just like the free ranging idea lol. I have also taken predators into consideration and I'm going to leave one of the roosters permanently with them and my dad has a bantam rooster someone gave him yesterday so I guess he is going into my flock also and the bantam is a mean ole chicken so I think atleast he will be a warning siren for the others
 

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