Hi everyone.
I have been lurking for past 8 weeks and finally joined today. This site has been so helpful and I appreciate all the support and advice that everyone shares. I currently have five 3 1/2 week old chicks: Spreckled Sussex, Black Sex Link, Silver Cochin, White Brahma and Buff Brahma. See my avatar photo of them at 1 week. I bought they from Concord Feed stores. Checking daily for pasty butt, correct temperature, clean water ( elevating it was the best advice! ) etc and my little girls are thriving very well. I love watching them develop their pecking order as it seems to change every day! As I consider them as pets, I hold them several times a day and they are relaxed around me.
Tomorrow I am setting up their coop in my yard and working on a run in the next few weeks. Then will wait for them to be ready to be moved from the brooder to the complete coop and enclosed run.
Best regards!
Irene
Here is Peaches, my Buff Brahma.
I have been lurking for past 8 weeks and finally joined today. This site has been so helpful and I appreciate all the support and advice that everyone shares. I currently have five 3 1/2 week old chicks: Spreckled Sussex, Black Sex Link, Silver Cochin, White Brahma and Buff Brahma. See my avatar photo of them at 1 week. I bought they from Concord Feed stores. Checking daily for pasty butt, correct temperature, clean water ( elevating it was the best advice! ) etc and my little girls are thriving very well. I love watching them develop their pecking order as it seems to change every day! As I consider them as pets, I hold them several times a day and they are relaxed around me.
Tomorrow I am setting up their coop in my yard and working on a run in the next few weeks. Then will wait for them to be ready to be moved from the brooder to the complete coop and enclosed run.
Best regards!
Irene
Here is Peaches, my Buff Brahma.