New Chicks Added To Flock!

[Bettyboop7499]

I just added 15 new chicks to the brooder!

5 Black Sex Links
5 Rhode Island Reds
5 Silver Laced Wyandottes

This will be my second time brooding a flock but my first introducing new chicks into an established flock. I'm a little nervous about that!

I also want to get a few ducks, can I raise them together in the same brooder or will the ducks get too big for the chicks?

Also, my husband has let his pasture pigs out to roam free the chickens in the pasture. Does anyone raise chickens and pigs together? How do you keep the water from getting dirty? I have a watering bucket with nipples but the chickens are drinking out of the pigs watering hole I don't know how to prevent this- any suggestions?

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Ummmmm..... You have frre range pigs? Also chickens drink where they want so I guess not. You would want to keep ducks seperate in a plasdtic container or on the ground. They make a watery mess with any waterer you give them!!

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Ummmmm..... You have frre range pigs? Also chickens drink where they want so I guess not. You would want to keep ducks seperate in a plasdtic container or on the ground. They make a watery mess with any waterer you give them!!

Lol..I now realize that it sounded like I let my pigs run free-that would be a big NO! We moved the coop into the pasture with the pigs but at the time the pigs were confined to one area separate from the chicken coop but now they are together. And, the pigs hang out around the chicken coop and the chickens hang out where the pigs sleep...the pigs get into the chickens water and I mean literally get into their pool! I guess if I put the water bin up off the ground maybe that will deter the pigs?

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Ummmmm..... You have frre range pigs? Also chickens drink where they want so I guess not. You would want to keep ducks seperate in a plasdtic container or on the ground. They make a watery mess with any waterer you give them!!

Thanks! So two brooders it is!

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Yes I would try moving the waterer! LOL I wonder if someone has free range pigs!

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Yes I would try moving the waterer! LOL I wonder if someone has free range pigs!

I'm sure there is because these pigs act just like dogs! No joke, Buddy came running across the pasture with a bright green sqeeky ball in his mouth! I wish I had gotten a picture. They lay on their backs so you will rub their tummies, so yeah I can see someone free ranging their pigs! They scare me a little still because like dogs they explore with their mouths...and have you ever seen a pigs teeth!

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

Yeah I had two Berkshires escape and they destroyed someones garden we payed for it but still I never trust a free range pig LOL

 

[Bettyboop7499]

Does anyone know what causes poop to stick to the baby chicks vent? What is the best way to clean it and prevent it? Thanks!

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

No way to prevent it but a warm paper towel thats slightly damp to get it off

 

[Abriana]

As crazy as it may sound, pigs will kill chickens. Don’t raise them together. When my dad was growing up in MN he had a neighbor who would burn the pigs eyes out so that he could raise poultry and pigs together and not have any conflict. I’m not saying to do that, just keep them separated.