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[patandchickens]

I looked around for a watermelon box, as you'd suggested, but was not able to lay my hands on one so I got the biggest boxes I could find from No Frills and duct-taped them together

So the brooder is about 2x4 and I put a spare piece of plexiglas in it so that if water spilled it wouldn't get the cardboard all soggy. Made a really weebly ugly chickenwire-and-scrap-wood lid.

It is working fine for now, and in another week or two I will kick them out of the basement into the (dog-less) kennel building, which is concrete-floored and insulated and all that. I built them a Robert Plamondon style insulated plywood hover with a couple lightbulb sockets in it -- that should see them thru the rest of the brooding period.

I still have not decided whether to kick the existing coupla chickens out of their winter pen in the kennel and into their summer tractor (we still get some cold nights...) or just figure there's not much the chicks will catch from them via air. Dunno. Probably will depend on the weather

Pat

 

[Robinhood]

miss_thenorth , thanks for the encouragement! well they are all alive still and growing fast! i did take pics last night of the kids moving them brooders while i cleaned and restocked the feed and water.
I got 12 isa brown layers and 12 isa heavy brown meat birds.
do you have a rooster? i would love to get some eggs next spring to try hatching our own if i can get my ladys that far!
you are from the leamington area correct?
jay

 

[Robinhood]

WOW i was gone on a business trip for the last 4 days, and when i got home i checked on the chicks. WOW are they ever big!

 

[miss_thenorth]

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I'm near Merlin-between Chatham and Tilbury. I had a rooster, an OEG, but the neighbour's dogs killed him. Now I have a RIR rooster. He's beautiful. I plan on getting some barred rocks, and making black sexlinks with them. I only plan on doing meat birds this year. next year I hope to raise my dual purpose birds--cull the sexlink roos, and sell the excess black sexlink hens.

The eggs that the broody is sitting on are OEG, and OEG/red sexlinks. Not exactly sure what I will be doing with them, since having the OEGs wasn't part of the grand scheme. At least I know that i have a broody to sit on the eggs that the BRs produce, if the BRs don't go broody.

PS, are you just into archery, or are you a bowhunter too?

 

[Robinhood]

I have shot competative archery for years now and bow hunt also. Love to bow hunt, always looking for property or opportunities.

thanks

 

[mamma]

Hi Pat and Stella!

I am somewhat in your area as well. I live just north of Cambray! I am a Newbie and have 6 baby chicks I got from the Woodville Market. I am not sure what kind I have and they have not been sexed but I am sure hoping I've got some hens in there! We love them lot's and are starting to work on a coop for them. Also I got a waterer from the Woodville market as well for $5... Not sure if the lady will be there again this saturday but it is a bit bigger and better than the ones for $7 at TSC in Lindsay. Anyways...it's nice to see people from my area on this site!

Good Luck!

Lori

 

[patandchickens]

Hi Lori! <waves>

Pat

 

[Chick_a_dee]

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Seagrave is just north of Oshawa? damnnnnn, I had no idea aha. I live in Bowmanville right now, moving to near Belleville.

 

[Chick_a_dee]

Anyone know where I can get a used half-circle greenhouse frame? to attach my hardware mesh to for my run...

Anyway, I'm FROM Toronto, RAISED in Bowmanville (Just 40 minutes east of Toronto, 5 minute drive to GM), and I'm MOVING to Stirling, 30 minutes north of Belleville at the end of June.

Anyone from the Belleville area?!

 

[Adri]

Hi Chick_a_dee, We'll practically be neighbours. Last August we moved from Hamilton to Quinte. I love Stirling and spent a lot of time looking at real estate there last year. We almost moved to Stirling, DH's company had put in a full price offer on the old Brown Shoe Factory, but the deal fell through and they bought in Trenton instead. So we moved to Rednersville, 1/2 way between Trenton and Belleville. My DH is originally from Port Hope.

Good luck with your move and getting your chicks! 2 weeks ago, I got mine from Performance Poultry around the corner from me. I absolutely adore them and they are doing very well.