Looks like you have a lot of potential in that property! Good luck with your build(s).
Rebel looks like a really great pooch!
Ranger's something else lol!! He's a little people, seriously. I've had heelers all my life, and he's easily the most expressive and actively communicative of them all. And by communicative I mean I don't have to teach him anything. I just tell him a few times with some hand gestures if necessary, and he gets it. If he's struggling he'll give me a very obviously inquisitive or frustrated look, and we figure out another way. Best dog I've ever owned...and he had some pretty stout shoes to fill.
Quick general question while I have you all here!!
Is it possible to transfer all of these birds to the closed up coop, with heat? They're currently in my office, which I'm finding with two heat lamps is really hard to regulate for temperature. I think one 8x8 space with one lamp will be better/easier for them all to find a comfortable zone around the center/hot point. I'd planned on doing it with the CornishX anyhow this weekend, but I'm thinking it would be better for the little birds, too. I hate having 20 chicks cooped up in the admittedly too small brooder.
I'm doing a dry run with the heat today. I've been using a laser/IR thermometer to keep up with the heat in their brooders...and intend to do the same with the coop. If I can get a relatively decent spot in the 85° plus range, it should be ok I'd think. Right now they mostly hang out in that heat zone, or less. By appearance, the CornishX will be 3wks on Monday, while the Barred Rock look to be pushing 2wks now. Oddly enough, all of the barred rocks are similar in color/size, even though they came from two different locations (online/in store).
Here's a video of the current coop configuration:
And here's a few pics of the chicks:
This is the smallest CornishX. He's an easy 2lb bird...maybe a bit more.
My friendliest/favorite roo....when I come to the brooder and reach in he and the pullet (I think) in the next picture always jump up into my hand. Today though, I realized it's not because he loves me...the little bugger is trying to get higher up so he can jump out of the brooder lol.
I *think* this one is a girl. They're all lightening up a LOT...and all of their feet are dark to some degree. Almost none of them are dark all the way to the toes.
Anyhow, any help with the issue of moving them would be awesome. I could try to move half the birds into the other brooder temporarily...but that would make keeping them warm a bit more difficult, as the CornishX in the coop need one of my lamps.
Thanks!!
