Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

[Blooie]

Just paying my dues….

 

[junior67]

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Just paying my dues….

Oh my soooo cute!!!!

 

[junior67]

Some of My babies. The little SF is under the MHP. Lol

 

[bruceha2000]

I also have chicks that should be hatching under a broody this week so need to see how she is once they hatch since she may be more protective too.

She will be though I doubt she would see 3 week old chicks as a threat to her kids.
I don't think she will take them as her own but she might let them hang around as part of her flock.

 

[Blooie]

Supposed to get down to 29 tonight…. Mama Heating Pad, don’t fail me now!

 

[bruceha2000]

You can always shove them under Ken's arms if the power goes out.

 

[Blooie]

Or in his shorts!

 

[junior67]

She will be though I doubt she would see 3 week old chicks as a threat to her kids.
I don't think she will take them as her own but she might let them hang around as part of her flock.

I just didn't want her attacking them.

 

[junior67]

She will be though I doubt she would see 3 week old chicks as a threat to her kids.
I don't think she will take them as her own but she might let them hang around as part of her flock.

oh and their coop brooder is next to the nest boxes so she has been brooding basically next to them the whole time.

 

[Blooie]

So I called My PetChicken yesterday, forgetting the time change of course, so I had to leave a message. My chicks were due to hatch and be shipped on Monday, but I never received an E-Mail saying they were on their way. In 8 years of dealing with MPC, that’s never happened before, so I left a message asking if there was no hatch or what. Every year I’ve ordered from MPC, there’s been an email on Monday and the chicks arrive on Thursday.

Ken and I were still sound asleep this morning when the phone rang at 6:15. It was the post office in Lovell telling me my chicks had arrived. WHAT??? I didn’t even know they were on the way! Because I wasn’t expecting them, I had nothing set up in the house for them. I hadn’t even been able to figure out what I was going to do with them yet, so we had decided last night to pick up a box today and put the small heating pad in there, then just wait to hear from the hatchery. I like to keep shipped chicks or chicks I hatch here at home inside until I know they understand MHP, and are eating and drinking.

Not this time. I had to bite the bullet and put them outside directly. I had absolutely nothing to put them in and obviously that time of the morning nothing was open to even get a box from. Each one got a shot of NutriDrench as it came out of the shipping box, a drink of water, then under MHP for a calm-down and warm-up. They’re all pretty feisty, none of them seemed weak, so I think they’re gonna do alright. I’ll check on them a lot today. I’m usually much better prepared, but this time I got caught with my tinsel down around my knees! Last time I was out there, they were paying attention to the older chicks and doing whatever those 3 were doing. Fingers crossed!!