orangespear
In the Brooder
We dove right in!
(disclosure: Just because we bought a farm does not mean i know what im doing
. This is a dream of ours and we are learning as we go)
Little back story, In October of 2014 we bought an 80acre farm from the original family that owned it since 1890.
After major renovations to the 1905 farmhouse was mostly complete, i started working on the chicken coops. There were 3 that already existed on the farm. {Pictures of this entire process if you are interested}
My wife and I decided that we did not want to start off peeps. To much work and we do not have the time right now while still finishing the farmhouse renovations. So we wanted started chicks that were about 15-20 weeks old. We happen to be at Tractor Supply during their chick event and sales person told me we could special order the pullets we wanted. So we ordered 25. (25 is the minimum for special ordering) We ordered 10 ameraucana and 15 buff orpington chicks. Now fast forward a month later to the day the pullets were supposed to arrive to our post office and they didnt. I called TSC and they informed me that the hatchery had and incubator failure and that my order was affected by this.
This did puzzle me because i didnt understand how an incubator failure that happened 2 days ago could have affected my chickens that should have hatched 15-20 weeks earlier. So i called the hatchery they were coming from. {Townline Hatchery}
And to my surprise i was told that i had 1 day old peeps in the mail heading my way.
This was a real good lesson in learning terminology. TSC sold me exactly what i bought but i thought a pullet meant a 15-20 week old chicken. The nice man at the hatchery set me straight on that.
LONG story short, the next night was the local livestock auction. We went there and came home with 15 laying hens to go in coop that was ready for hens.
I havent taken a picture of the finished product, but this was when i was setting in the posts to fence in the 2 coops.
We ended up keeping the chicks. I have two 125 gallon plastic watering troughs and we are using those to raise the peeps.
Here are some of the 15 hens we got from the auction..
And now for the peeps or Pullets. (not started pullets
like we thought we were getting)
Just arriving home from the post office.
So there you go. Any advice or thoughts are welcome. Thanks!
(disclosure: Just because we bought a farm does not mean i know what im doing
Little back story, In October of 2014 we bought an 80acre farm from the original family that owned it since 1890.
After major renovations to the 1905 farmhouse was mostly complete, i started working on the chicken coops. There were 3 that already existed on the farm. {Pictures of this entire process if you are interested}
My wife and I decided that we did not want to start off peeps. To much work and we do not have the time right now while still finishing the farmhouse renovations. So we wanted started chicks that were about 15-20 weeks old. We happen to be at Tractor Supply during their chick event and sales person told me we could special order the pullets we wanted. So we ordered 25. (25 is the minimum for special ordering) We ordered 10 ameraucana and 15 buff orpington chicks. Now fast forward a month later to the day the pullets were supposed to arrive to our post office and they didnt. I called TSC and they informed me that the hatchery had and incubator failure and that my order was affected by this.
This did puzzle me because i didnt understand how an incubator failure that happened 2 days ago could have affected my chickens that should have hatched 15-20 weeks earlier. So i called the hatchery they were coming from. {Townline Hatchery}
And to my surprise i was told that i had 1 day old peeps in the mail heading my way.
This was a real good lesson in learning terminology. TSC sold me exactly what i bought but i thought a pullet meant a 15-20 week old chicken. The nice man at the hatchery set me straight on that.
LONG story short, the next night was the local livestock auction. We went there and came home with 15 laying hens to go in coop that was ready for hens.
I havent taken a picture of the finished product, but this was when i was setting in the posts to fence in the 2 coops.
We ended up keeping the chicks. I have two 125 gallon plastic watering troughs and we are using those to raise the peeps.
Here are some of the 15 hens we got from the auction..
And now for the peeps or Pullets. (not started pullets
Just arriving home from the post office.
So there you go. Any advice or thoughts are welcome. Thanks!
welcome to BYC !!
