Our Chicks Are Finally Here!!! **Photos**

[wordgirl]

Guess I'll need to change my signature – our little babies are here!!!

We picked them up at Peterson's Mill yesterday at 2 o'clock. All twenty-one little fluffballs were cheeping loudly in their box on the way home. We put them in their brooder, and before we could show them where the water was, one of the Orpingtons had already found it herself! Soon the whole bunch of them were dipping their beaks for their first drinks of water, stretching their little necks up to swallow. They're so cute!

Here are some pictures, if I can figure out how to do this:

The center Australorp in the third picture is my little Georgie. She's adorable!

 

[baldie]

Congrats on the new babies!! They are adorable!!

 

[georgialee]

So cute! Congrats on your new babies!

 

[Dogwood Farm]

I am sooooo jealous. They are so cute.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Congratulations! We also have Australorps and they are great!

 

[CoopCrazy]

Congrats on the babies... BTW What is the square in the middle of the brooder?

 

[wordgirl]

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I have the best Dad

– that is, in fact, a thermometer. You know those thermometers that read inside temperatures, as well as outside temperatures? The outside wire is fixed inside that square, and the 'inside' thermometer is mounted outside of the brooder so that we can easily see both temperature and humidity without straining to see the little red line in a normal thermometer inside the brooder. Here are a couple of photos –

Dad also installed a dimmer switch on the top of the brooder so that we can turn the lamp up and down – saving energy, as well as eliminating the need to raise and lower the lamp to get the perfect temperature.

 

[Jennings Gamefowl]

Quote:

I have the best Dad

– that is, in fact, a thermometer. You know those thermometers that read inside temperatures, as well as outside temperatures? The outside wire is fixed inside that square, and the 'inside' thermometer is mounted outside of the brooder so that we can easily see both temperature and humidity without straining to see the little red line in a normal thermometer inside the brooder. Here are a couple of photos –

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/28038_100_6807.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/28038_100_6796.jpg

Dad also installed a dimmer switch on the top of the brooder so that we can turn the lamp up and down – saving energy, as well as eliminating the need to raise and lower the lamp to get the perfect temperature.

WOW THATS KOOL.. I MIGHT HAVE TO TRY THAT NEXT TIME I GET MORE CHICKS ( WHICH WILL BE SOON)

 

[my1stchicks]

Congrats and they sure are cute!

Enjoy

 

[bawkbawkbawk]

Sooooooo jealous!!!!