Pics of my rescue chicks

[00 Turok]

Not the greatest quality. I tried to get close ups of the feathers, but it won't focus when very close so this is the best I could do. Cheap camera.



They don't like being separated. They peep like crazy if I take 1 out of the room & leave the other behind. The big 1 I named Feathers, because it started growing feathers 1st & likes to try to fly. Still thinking what to name the other.

Close up of Feathers.

Just cleaned their mini cooper & already they defiled it.

FEEDING TIME !!!

Real good view of the poo too.

 

[3LilBirds]

Congrats on the new chicks! They are super cute!

 

[Fierlin1182]

Oh, that's so cute too! It's bringing back memories of our first chicks - we got two, had a similar brooder set-up (it is going to get a LOT messier before they're out of there. ) and our older one was called Feathers too. Congrats on your chicks, they look adorable!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Are you planning on using those Cornish X chicks for meat, or just pets? : )

~ Aspen

 

[DCasper]

You will find that you want more chickens after being around these two.

 

[MadabtChickens]

Very cute! My 4 Delawares drove me nuts with how messy and stinky they got the brooder so quickly by the time they were 4 weeks old. They moved out to the coop a week later. I'm so glad it's warmer now. My 4 EEs will be out there as soon as they're mostly feathered out. Needless to say I do not enjoy the brooding part of raising chickens. I enjoy them so much more when they're not constantly making messes for me to clean up.

 

[00 Turok]

Pets only... can't eat a pet. I got too attached the poopers

besides... I don't like chicken.

When I was 15, chicken was on sale for 5 cents a lb & my mom bought so many birds, (to make a long story short) it took us 1.5 years to eat them all & she wouldn't buy any other kind of meat, because she was afraid they would somehow rot in the 2 floor freezers we had them in. So I got burned out on chicken, but the thing that clinched it was when I took a summer job cleaning chicken houses.

They don't clean those houses until they sell the birds. You know how much poo 26,000 birds can leave behind in 8 weeks?

I had to wear a full face gas mask just get within 30 ft. of the houses. Needless to say I only worked that job for 1 summer... just 1 summer... let me emphasize how I just lasted ONE summer.

Accually I didn't even make it till August. When Texas temps got over 100 F in late July... the ammonia started burning my skin like I was at the beach. Even burned me underneath my clothes. After my last stint I said *BLEEP* this & never looked back.

I read how a member here... kuntrygirl... kept her cornish Xs alive & healthy for 4 years. I hope to do the same for these 2.