Hello Everyone-
I joined here probably back in 2006-2007 maybe. I lived in SC then and I was raising a flock of about 40 chickens then. I loved coming to the boards here to search for answers to common questions I had about my chickens. I learned all I needed to know about incubating and hatching eggs here.
In 2007 while doing our first Passover Seder in another state, I had my family watch my chickens. They were told to make sure the gate was shut up tight. One day over that weekend, something ate the heads off of my chickens. I had lost a few along the way before this to some hawks I think. My dad said it was an awful mess as we went around the yard picking up my dead chickens. A few managed to survive but eventually some came up missing during the day which led me to believe that it was a dog or hawk. I cant tell you how devastated I was. I was sorta upset with G-d that he had not protected them while I was doing Passover and I told him, surely the death angel had not passed on by my house but stopped and took my babies. They were my babies...I was in charge of protecting them.
That was years ago. So much changed over the years. We now live in the Smoky Mountains of TN and we have been here for 6 years. I'm a potter by trade and thought raising chickens again would be a great thing to do now and I could incorporate my babies in my videos too. So I just started with 10 and as luck would have it, 2 died. I cried my eyes out! On the second one, I realized these babies were just too weak and they were the smallest of them all. So getting babies from the feed store was a start. I also inherited 5 more chickens fully feathered and about 4-5 weeks old when I got them. Sweetest babies, as they let me hold and touch them and I didnt get them when they were just furry little things. The owner had gotten their grandson some but he had no interest in them so I adopted them. Funny thing is they have a flock of laying hens already they want to give me that are free ranged. I'm not sure about getting those as they arwnt used to being in a pen at all. I will have to pen mine up and use a chicken tractor to move them around the yard. Oh...and I have 3 ducklings! Oh my gosh I am in love with these sweet babies. So I am in love again and Om a chicken moma to 8 3-4 week old chicks, 5 6 week old chicks and 3 ducklings lol.
I'm just trying to figure out what all to feed these ducklings and older chicks as they are in brooders in my basement. I have the other little 8 chicks in a huge aquarium! Fun for my grandbaby to look at and not reach in.
The ducklings and chicks love green beans and small bits of apples. Oh and I gave them some carrots from the can. They are messy but I have a great watering outfit that keeps them out of it and they get to bathe once in a while in their own plastic container sitting in my bathtub. Less mess the best! Looking forward to them feathering out so they can be outside. It's been too cold to take them out yet.
Well hello again...I know it's a book. Sorry about that. I'm nicknamed Dixieldy or Muditis Pottery which I call myself sometimes mistakenly forgetting Inhave a real name which is Sonja
Looking forward to many chick and duck conversations! Thanks for any advice
I joined here probably back in 2006-2007 maybe. I lived in SC then and I was raising a flock of about 40 chickens then. I loved coming to the boards here to search for answers to common questions I had about my chickens. I learned all I needed to know about incubating and hatching eggs here.
In 2007 while doing our first Passover Seder in another state, I had my family watch my chickens. They were told to make sure the gate was shut up tight. One day over that weekend, something ate the heads off of my chickens. I had lost a few along the way before this to some hawks I think. My dad said it was an awful mess as we went around the yard picking up my dead chickens. A few managed to survive but eventually some came up missing during the day which led me to believe that it was a dog or hawk. I cant tell you how devastated I was. I was sorta upset with G-d that he had not protected them while I was doing Passover and I told him, surely the death angel had not passed on by my house but stopped and took my babies. They were my babies...I was in charge of protecting them.
That was years ago. So much changed over the years. We now live in the Smoky Mountains of TN and we have been here for 6 years. I'm a potter by trade and thought raising chickens again would be a great thing to do now and I could incorporate my babies in my videos too. So I just started with 10 and as luck would have it, 2 died. I cried my eyes out! On the second one, I realized these babies were just too weak and they were the smallest of them all. So getting babies from the feed store was a start. I also inherited 5 more chickens fully feathered and about 4-5 weeks old when I got them. Sweetest babies, as they let me hold and touch them and I didnt get them when they were just furry little things. The owner had gotten their grandson some but he had no interest in them so I adopted them. Funny thing is they have a flock of laying hens already they want to give me that are free ranged. I'm not sure about getting those as they arwnt used to being in a pen at all. I will have to pen mine up and use a chicken tractor to move them around the yard. Oh...and I have 3 ducklings! Oh my gosh I am in love with these sweet babies. So I am in love again and Om a chicken moma to 8 3-4 week old chicks, 5 6 week old chicks and 3 ducklings lol.
I'm just trying to figure out what all to feed these ducklings and older chicks as they are in brooders in my basement. I have the other little 8 chicks in a huge aquarium! Fun for my grandbaby to look at and not reach in.
The ducklings and chicks love green beans and small bits of apples. Oh and I gave them some carrots from the can. They are messy but I have a great watering outfit that keeps them out of it and they get to bathe once in a while in their own plastic container sitting in my bathtub. Less mess the best! Looking forward to them feathering out so they can be outside. It's been too cold to take them out yet.
Well hello again...I know it's a book. Sorry about that. I'm nicknamed Dixieldy or Muditis Pottery which I call myself sometimes mistakenly forgetting Inhave a real name which is Sonja
Looking forward to many chick and duck conversations! Thanks for any advice 
Welcome back! 
Old habits die hard!!
