This may sound stupid but I have a Pekin Duck that I wanted to spend time w/ it. So the bathroom floor was the only one that I could clean easily, close the door and keep them close to me, sort of. I wantd them to love me and they were always running away. Do you have a room like that that the cat can't get in and their safe and close to you?! Animal Lover Here! lol
Hi chickery-do,
Sorry I missed this. Have been so busy getting the coop up, moving chicks, cleaning cabin, gardens, then socializing with the chicks...thanks for the idea, no I don't really have a room like that, the bathroom is kitties bathroom also
it's the only closing door in the cabin, It really is a small cabin but I love it here!
The chicks have been in their coup for 2 weeks, wow has the time gone by fast! We have made friends, most of us...they use me for a jungle gym when I am doing chores lol. some will let me pick them up and they sit in my hand!!! I put up some pics on the "sexing barred rock" thread in raising baby chicks...they are growing sooo fast. I love watching them and interacting with them. They are learning that if I come to their coop, it means, food, treats, water, or attention...past few days they are trying to follow me out the door, but are still too little to free range...but alas, now too big to use their brooder box as a playpen also...hoping the run will be done this week-end. Mostly cosmetics left on the coop and hardware for windows and door....have cheap on for temp. Did some riggin, to get them in it. Can't do the coop until the run is done...put the roof on with them in coop and they didn't like it...so run needs to be done asap!!!
For hatchery birds, I am pleased with them, so far. I DO have 3 cockerels for sure now! One is my dominant and he is nice, so far, and lighter than all the others...one, a darker cockerel, I am watching...he may have to go to freezer camp...that leaves me with 12 pullets...so this fall I should have some pullet eggs, yippie!!! Gonna have to send atleast ONE of the cockerels to "camp" as 3 is too many, 2 might be too many, but hoping not...and I have a pretty good idea which one, the darkest one I have been watching...he doesn't like me messing with his hens, although they aren't HUIS hens, as he is not the dominant one...so far, I have been right on with my" guesses" ! He actually runs up to me and pecks on my feet when he hears a pullet having a fit, a few still don't like being picked up, especialy my dominant pullet...but they do all come to me, some fly up on me, and one sits on my shoulder when I do chores lol. I have found that if I reach under them to pick them up, instead of trying to reach down, I can very easily pick them up...and then set them on my hand and then others will fly up on my arms and lay down and roost...amazing since I really hadn't had physical contact with them till 3 weeks, when I moved them to their coop...but I DO go out and spend socializing time with them every day. I am not about to chase a chicken around, if for some reason I need to catch it!!!
Really enjoying this whole journey!!! Really want to go the heritage route next spring though!!! I can see a huge difference in these hatchery chicks and the ones me and my Daddy used to raise...my Daddies must've been heritage...they looked just like the heritage ones do now...
Well, couldn't sleep, too excited about the run possibly being finished this week-end, so thought I'd check up on this thread, Hi everyone!!!...so gotta go try!!! Thanks so much for answering my post and the suggestions!!!!
no worries
