ChickInnMama
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- Feb 21, 2022
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Hi 
I’m new here and we just got chicks a week and a half ago! They’re super cute, I have no idea what kind of chicks they are only that they lay brown eggs. I got them from the local feed store and she told me that they get left over brown egg layers from a hatchery after they fill orders. I picked out 2 yellow chicks, 2 yellow with gray, 1 all black and 1 black with cream on it. We love them! We got a super nice coop off Facebook marketplace for cheap and we’re going to clean it up before our girls need it and add our run. I’m hoping to get my run built this week so that my girls can go out in the run for a bit each day when I’m outside sitting in there with them. We had chickens when I was a teen but I don’t remember much about their care…. So I feel really new to this. My neighbors got chicks about 5 months ago so when 2 of ours got pasty butt I called her in a panic and she ran down to show me what to do and we haven’t had any more issues with that! We have them in a huge Rubbermaid tub (like you would use to hold pool supplies or outdoor supplies) with 2 wire shelves zip tied together over the top so they can’t fly out. I have put some grass with roots in there for them for the first time today (I did leaves the other day) and they have chick grit since I added something other than they’re food. I’m not sure what to make a dust bath out of for them? Just dirt from my yard? I want to do that because when I brought in the grass with the roots and dirt on it I caught one of my girls rolling in it, so they obviously like that! Anyway, any advice is welcome! We’re total newbies! We live on about 1/2 acre and we homestead what we can, we grow a lot of our own food, this year we will be tripling our garden space and canning and I bake bread, cook from scratch, so our own eggs was next on the list and it doesn’t hurt that we get the cutest chickens to get the eggs from! Next on our list is bees, to help pollinate our plants and also for the raw honey. And our dream is one day having about 10 acres and homesteading and being mostly self sufficient. So that’s us! So glad this forum exists, I have been coming and reading a ton of advice as questions have popped up with my chicks. If you have any ideas about our girls breeds please let me know
Thank you!!
Oh our girls names are:
Dolores
Betty
Wanda
Elliott
PepperAnn
and Bugsy
I’m new here and we just got chicks a week and a half ago! They’re super cute, I have no idea what kind of chicks they are only that they lay brown eggs. I got them from the local feed store and she told me that they get left over brown egg layers from a hatchery after they fill orders. I picked out 2 yellow chicks, 2 yellow with gray, 1 all black and 1 black with cream on it. We love them! We got a super nice coop off Facebook marketplace for cheap and we’re going to clean it up before our girls need it and add our run. I’m hoping to get my run built this week so that my girls can go out in the run for a bit each day when I’m outside sitting in there with them. We had chickens when I was a teen but I don’t remember much about their care…. So I feel really new to this. My neighbors got chicks about 5 months ago so when 2 of ours got pasty butt I called her in a panic and she ran down to show me what to do and we haven’t had any more issues with that! We have them in a huge Rubbermaid tub (like you would use to hold pool supplies or outdoor supplies) with 2 wire shelves zip tied together over the top so they can’t fly out. I have put some grass with roots in there for them for the first time today (I did leaves the other day) and they have chick grit since I added something other than they’re food. I’m not sure what to make a dust bath out of for them? Just dirt from my yard? I want to do that because when I brought in the grass with the roots and dirt on it I caught one of my girls rolling in it, so they obviously like that! Anyway, any advice is welcome! We’re total newbies! We live on about 1/2 acre and we homestead what we can, we grow a lot of our own food, this year we will be tripling our garden space and canning and I bake bread, cook from scratch, so our own eggs was next on the list and it doesn’t hurt that we get the cutest chickens to get the eggs from! Next on our list is bees, to help pollinate our plants and also for the raw honey. And our dream is one day having about 10 acres and homesteading and being mostly self sufficient. So that’s us! So glad this forum exists, I have been coming and reading a ton of advice as questions have popped up with my chicks. If you have any ideas about our girls breeds please let me know
Thank you!!Oh our girls names are:
Dolores
Betty
Wanda
Elliott
PepperAnn
and Bugsy
the pictures of it are on our trailer the night we got it, it’s moved to the back yard now and we will be hopefully building our run this week.
