Raising Baby Chick-Along

[CapricornFarm]

I will have 16x8 feet for them in there! With a few tarps more it will all be under cover. Enough for 32 chickens, and i only have 24. They are just about big enough to free range. Hatched in mid August.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I have to level up one shelf and put a few more tacks in, but scratch post is almost done!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Here are todays pictures:

 

[CapricornFarm]

Tomorrow is two weeks since i started building this coop. So much faster than my other coop!
And the contractor put the roof on the goat shed!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Here is the inside of the coop.

 

[WVduckchick]

It's coming along @CapricornFarm ! And those birdies will be So happy!

Forgot to add..DAY 2 that my Fiona has hopped right out of their house in the morning goodbye broodiness!!!!

My Fiona hatched her babies Saturday and Sunday. 4 out of 5. The last egg was laying in the nest box, pipped, but dead. I didn't bother her much because it was really cold and windy over the weekend.
I did move them to a grow out coop tonight at dark. Would have left them, but I'm going to be gone this weekend, and I was worried they wouldn't get back up the ramp this soon. Will get a better pic in the morning, but here's one i got quickly. Disappointed, no splashes!

 

[calichicken]

My Fiona hatched her babies Saturday and Sunday. 4 out of 5. The last egg was laying in the nest box, pipped, but dead. I didn't bother her much because it was really cold and windy over the weekend.
I did move them to a grow out coop tonight at dark. Would have left them, but I'm going to be gone this weekend, and I was worried they wouldn't get back up the ramp this soon. Will get a better pic in the morning, but here's one i got quickly. Disappointed, no splashes!
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Congrats!!! They are adorable! Were you expecting splashes or hoping...lol! So after being broody for 7 weeks...my Fiona is now molting poor baby !

 

[calichicken]

Here is the inside of the coop.View attachment 1176203

Looks great! Gonna have Happy chickens in there!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Looks great! Gonna have Happy chickens in there!

Thanks, hubby wants to send the noisy guineas out there in the woods so the chickens will get their half of the coop and another run.

 

[orrpeople]

Now it's a "wait and see" prospect. Three chicks were vaccinated. It wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. I only had to re-do one. AC chicks are tricky because of their black skin, so I thought I had penetrated skin (it was really yelling like I had), when all I'd gotten was fluff.
They have to be isolated for about 10 days (they're downstairs in the bathroom no one uses) before they can handle exposure to MDV.