My name is zDoc and Yes I'm addicted

[zDoc]

Do they have chickens anonymous?

I might need help.

I made the mistake of stopping by our local feed store and they had baby Ameraucanas

I didn't buy any cause I thought I better get advice from the pros on here first. There is probably no tasteful way to add these to my flock is there? I have 15 3 week old Golden buffs.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

 

[NonnasBabies]

Well, I have 4 weeks olds in one brooder, 6-10 weeks olds in a seperate run/coop, and 19 big ones in a reg coop!! So you can do it you'll just have to work around the different ages!!

Missi

 

[jossanne]

It will be very easy to mix those ages. Much easier than if they were several months different. When you're ready, just put the younger ones in with the bigger ones, separately in a wire cage so that they can see each other, then after a day or two they should mix together fine. There might be a bit of a struggle for pecking order, but not much with them being so young.

Go get the easter eggers. You deserve them!

 

[gryeyes]

Well, I just returned from my favorite feed store with two more chicks, after I had put away the brooder 3 weeks ago.

So I've got 9 adult chickens (1 rooster and 8 laying pullets), six adolescent chicks (four large fowl and two bantam cochins), two Cayuga ducks, and now I've added two 2-week old bantam Silver Sebrights.

I THINK, if there hadn't been the two older chicks in the bantam bin, I might have been able to resist them. Maybe not - I've wanted Sebrights and never thought I'd see them at the feed store. Straight run, so I'm hoping like heck they're pullets!

Yes, I am definitely addicted. I'm now six fowl over my legal limit. But hey, the ducks are all black (Ninjas! nobody'll notice 'em, right?) and the bantams are small birds so nobody will notice them. Right???

 

[plantguy90]

Me too. Ordered Silkies in march, then added a RIR chick one week later, then added another BO chick two weeks after that, then two weeks later I add one more BR. Started with a rabbit cage, then built a brooder, now I sectioned off my run for this ever growing pile of chicks. Totally enabled by this forum, as you can tell by my using initials of the breeds, knew nothing about chickens 8 months ago.

 

[jossanne]

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[Southpaw970]

Ummm...you're not alone.

I have 8 adults in one coop. DH just finished the teenage coop 2 days ago to move the (6) six week olds from the pack-n-play on the porch til we decide to put them with the adults. Then there are the 4 babies (3 wk olds) in a brooder in the bathroom. A friend has a broody Cochin- so about the time the babies move out to the teenage coop or the pack-n-play on the porch I'll have more babies in the brooder again. Oh yeah, another friend of ours wants me hatch some eggs and raise the babies til they are feathered out. I don't how I got myself into this, but I'm having a blast!

 

[Southpaw970]

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I think it takes 2 Bantams to count as one- or is it 3?

 

[Supermommy486]

You are not the only one. lol

 

[jossanne]

LOL I have 37 chickens out in the coop. Four of those girls turned two on March 29. Some will be two in June and some in July. I've got bantam cochins who are 18 months old. Then there are the EE's and welsummers who just turned 1 in March, the silkies that turned 1 on April 1. I've got another batch of EE's who will be 1 at the end of May.

Then there are 6 bantam babies out in the grow-out pen with their broody mama

, 14 feed store babies in a brooder right here next to the computer

, and another broody out in her box with one chick hatched and two more eggs hoping...

Is there a vaccination for this disease? It is horribly contagious, I'm afraid.