NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Anyone near to Rancher have a chick ? ( Syracuse )
Can you try putting it with a hen ?
Or try a different TSC ? Not just Bridge St ?

There is one in Clay / 57 ,


How about these Polish Chicks on Craigs List ?

I could but then the mother will stop sitting on the remaining eggs. I'd prefer her to have at least three or four. Last year I had a hen with 10 chicks, not all her own.

I don't want her out of commission for just one chick.

 

[DrumlinPoint]

So, TSC finally got me. They had pullets today. And some of them were light brahmas.

Seriously, I was going to buy some from TSC anyway, because they provided a lot of stuff for the 4-H poultry scholarship my daughter just won. We were just waiting for pullets to come in. I am going to have enough little roos to deal with as it is. I also realized today that I could could keep bringing chicks into the basement and my husband would probably never know until he had to build more coops. Lol...

 

[Pyxis]

So, TSC finally got me. They had pullets today. And some of them were light brahmas.

Seriously, I was going to buy some from TSC anyway, because they provided a lot of stuff for the 4-H poultry scholarship my daughter just won. We were just waiting for pullets to come in. I am going to have enough little roos to deal with as it is. I also realized today that I could could keep bringing chicks into the basement and my husband would probably never know until he had to build more coops. Lol...

Light brahmas would have gotten me to break, too. The two first ever chicks I bought were light brahmas. I still have the daughters from the hen. I'd love to have some more, but this time from nice breeder lines.

 

[LavvyTaffy]

Day 4

 

[Pyxis]

Day 4

You need a bigger brooder ASAP They need more room to move around and they've definitely outgrown it at this point. Doesn't look like there's really much room in there for them anymore.

 

[DrumlinPoint]

Day 4

I just looked it up today as I moved some chicks to a larger brooder...Chicks need about 1/2 square foot of brooder space per chick until 6 weeks of age. That doesn't include space taken up by a waterer or feeder. I give them more than that as they get older or I see too much agitation and pecking at each other.

 

[LavvyTaffy]

Fixing to move them to bigger brooder tomorrow.

 

[LavvyTaffy]

and until then, I remove the water every other hour to give them room to run

 

[LavvyTaffy]

 

[Gramma Chick]

I could but then the mother will stop sitting on the remaining eggs. I'd prefer her to have at least three or four. Last year I had a hen with 10 chicks, not all her own.

I don't want her out of commission for just one chick.

You could do the opposite ...give her a chick ..incubate the eggs ..when they have hatched give them back to her ?