New chicky mamma here!

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Well......I've been thinking about chickens for a while. Today I was at Rural King, there were chicks, a lady was telling me how wonderful and exciting it is, and all of a sudden I had 6 chicks in my cart and all the stuff that goes with them. They are currently in a rubbermaid tote occupying a corner of my dining room table.

I know that I have 2 Rhode Island Reds and 4 other ones. After finding this forum and reading your posts, I rather feel like an idiot that I don't know what the other ones are since you all seem to know exactly what you have. The Reds are 3 days old; the others are about twice the size so Im guessing maybe a couple weeks? The fuzzy is starting to go away and they have little feathers forming. At any rate, they are adorable.

I have put apple cider vinegar in their water and checked all their butts - no poop there so I guess we're ok for today.

I live in western pennsylvania and am raising them for eggs. I would welcome any advice/information that any of you can give me. I am currently reading in the raising chicks section and will continue on. We will be starting our chicken coop tomorrow and I think I will set up a little area in my yard so that they can roam around. Temp is in the mid 80's here so they should be ok I hope

Thank you for having me and I will try to keep the dumb questions to a minimum but it will take me a minute to get used to the terminology.
 
Welcome to the BYC flock! We are glad you joined us!

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Feel free to ask any questions you have. There are no "dumb questions" here. We are here to help each other learn. It's quite a big learning curve!
 
Welcome to the Backyard chickens flock. No we don't all know what breeds we get. There is a "what breed or gender is this," thread. If you check it out you will see how very many people don't know what they have.

ACV should never be given in a metal dish- due to acidity.
 
Welcome to BYC. Glad you decided to join our flock. X2 on trailrider330; the only dumb question is the one that should have been asked, that wasn't asked. :o) Drumstick diva has given you some good ACV advice. Your definitely heading in the right direction with our Learning Center at https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/1/Learning_Center. There is loads of useful information there (including of course, the raising of chicks). Please feel free to ask any questions you may have. We are here to help in any way we can. Good luck with your new chicks.
 

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