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[TheGreatChickening]

I use Deep Bedding and the poop mostly vanishes into the bedding. https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/using-deep-bedding-in-a-small-coop.76343/

This is fantastic!! Thank you so much for sharing the article with me. ❤

 

[RiverOtter]

We were all new at this once! I remember being horrified at what was in the sink. Now, I'm just "Meh, it's in the sink" <open tap> "at least it didn't hit the wall"

If it makes you feel better, this morning I had to clean my nemesis - the one thing that still makes me gag. Dog sick At least I don't have carpet.

 

[TheGreatChickening]

We were all new at this once! I remember being horrified at what was in the sink. Now, I'm just "Meh, it's in the sink" <open tap> "at least it didn't hit the wall"

If it makes you feel better, this morning I had to clean my nemesis - the one thing that still makes me gag. Dog sick At least I don't have carpet.

Prolly shouldn't admit this, but... You know how proverbs says a dog returns to its vomit? My first dog was when I was married. The first sick it got, I just left it. Hubby was like... "What are you doing?" So I responded, "Don't they just eat it?"

He looked so shocked and sad and disappointed. That single question ruined all the "I Caught Me A City Girl" country songs he'd ever heard.

 

[RiverOtter]

Ok, so, I work with dogs a LOT. And wild dogs carry meat back to their pups in their bellies. They just bite off chunks only just small enough to swallow to carry the meat back and toss it up as natural puppy chow. So dogs vomit easily and often, and it is natural for them to hugely overeat, toss some up and have at it again.

Spitty kibble doesn't bother me.

But this... This was foul smelling and horrific, you couldn't tell which end it came out of and I gagged.

 

[rosemarythyme]

Our weather is 75F at night. Is that safe for chicks? I thought they had to be 90+ all the time. If 75 is amenable, these bad boys are outta here tonight.

As long as the chicks have a predator proof, weather protected, draft free place to be, and a reliable heat source they can access as needed, they can be outside.

My chicks never come into the house at all any longer. As soon as we get them from the feed store (2-3 days old) I take them straight from the car and put them in the outside brooder. I use a heating pad for warmth, but otherwise the ambient temps they're in ranges from mid 40s - high 60s.

 

[3KillerBs]

As long as the chicks have a predator proof, weather protected, draft free place to be, and a reliable heat source they can access as needed, they can be outside.

My chicks never come into the house at all any longer. As soon as we get them from the feed store (2-3 days old) I take them straight from the car and put them in the outside brooder. I use a heating pad for warmth, but otherwise the ambient temps they're in ranges from mid 40s - high 60s.

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Yep. Mine go from the incubator to the outdoor brooder or from the shipping box to the outdoor brooder.

I dip their beaks into the water and tuck them under the plate to show them where the warm is.

 

[TheGreatChickening]

As long as the chicks have a predator proof, weather protected, draft free place to be, and a reliable heat source they can access as needed, they can be outside.

My chicks never come into the house at all any longer. As soon as we get them from the feed store (2-3 days old) I take them straight from the car and put them in the outside brooder. I use a heating pad for warmth, but otherwise the ambient temps they're in ranges from mid 40s - high 60s.

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"Oh Dang! That is perfect!" Said Hubby. Awesomeness.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

I'm a great fan of outdoor brooding too.

DH, in fact, flatly refuses to have chickens in the house outside the incubator or short-term emergencies and I agree.

My Outdoor Brooder: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/run-to-outdoor-brooder-conversion.76634/

The not-quite-week-old chicks out there right now aren't even using their brooder plate since it's so hot here.

I SO appreciate everything I've learned from you and Blooie! You're the very inspiration that I needed to start those albeit adorable and helpless, yet very messy little fuzzballs, outside! I think making a fort knox brooder with MHP took me all of one day where as I spent way more time trying to make a good indoor contraption to avoid the inevitable mess. Not even remotely necessary!

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Ugh! My DH grew up on a farm and thought keeping them in the kitchen was a great idea?? He is kind of a joker though. Hrmmm...

Our weather is 75F at night. Is that safe for chicks? I thought they had to be 90+ all the time. If 75 is amenable, these bad boys are outta here tonight.

75f is 100% acceptable. I chose to ignore the 90+ BS in support of reality and common sense about 10 chick batches ago (10 years.) 75 at night is downright balmy for my chicks.... When they are 1 day old I start with MHP set at 85* and ambient temp anywhere from 75 to 45. All they need is the one heat source and ambient temp really doesn't matter.

 

[3KillerBs]

I SO appreciate everything I've learned from you and Blooie! You're the very inspiration that I needed to start those albeit adorable and helpless, yet very messy little fuzzballs, outside! I think making a fort knox brooder with MHP took me all of one day where as I spent way more time trying to make a good indoor contraption to avoid the inevitable mess. Not even remotely necessary!

*blush*

Glad it's working out for you.

All they need is the one heat source and ambient temp really doesn't matter.

Yep. My first batch of chicks from my incubator had to deal with down to 20F a couple nights when they were only a couple days old.

That's when I got the brooder plate (through the kindness of a BYC member), and I ran dual heat for a couple days -- the Big Red Bulb to keep the area around the brooder plate up over 40F so the plate could be trusted and to keep the water thawed and the plate itself to keep the chicks warm.

As soon as it got over 40F I turned the light off and chicks ran all around the brooder -- just coming back to their plate to warm up when they needed it.