My flock is not old enough or large enough yet for me to comment. But did you see the chick portals I posted for you a few days ago?? If not I'll repost.
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My flock is not old enough or large enough yet for me to comment. But did you see the chick portals I posted for you a few days ago?? If not I'll repost.
Ruby, please do, my apologies for not seeing them earlier.
I have been adding chicks 4 to 6 weeks apart into my run a lot this year and it's been going well. I do use a "portal" situation where the little ones can get away if they need to. That being said they have a lot of space. I'm not sure if you have many more options then to try it and see how it goes. I would just watch for birds getting picked on too much. Missing patches of feathers etc. You might have mentioned but is it well ventilated? That many chickens breath A LOT. Like 10X more than humans or something.
Very interesting.
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The run has its longest wall as just wire fence, so I gotta believe it can vent. I plan to shingle the roof later this summer, and will put additional vents in when I do. But right now, some winds will blow open the door between the 2 runs, so I gotta believe that means its ventilating. But thanks for that reminder. As for watching for picking activity, yeah, I do that several times a day.
Yea!!!!! On your pip!!!! Keep us posted!!
My brooding process is as follows: first two weeks indoor brooder, heat lamp, constant attention. Next two weeks in an outdoor brooder, heat lamp with thermostatic control (or in very cold weather, extended indoors but replace heat lamp with normal incandescent). That's the end of the starter rations, and off to a bigger pen. No more supplemental heat, roosts provided, mini pellet grower feed or grower crumbles. By six to eight weeks, they are big enough to range with the big birds as long as there are no a$%holes in the coop. I get rid of those if I can't get them in line. This is the time when a "safety zone" with an entrance and exit too small for the big guys is a great idea. Either that, or introduce some of the lesser members of the older flock to the young birds, and add birds on up the chain. After that, they are part of the flock and assume their place at the bottom of the pecking order until they earn their way upward. My chicks and poults grow up as part of an integrated community. I keep the process going, adding birds to the bottom rung until the eggs run out. I have turkeys staggered every two weeks, and chickens all over in there.
If a broody is involved, the dynamics are much different, of course.
And watch that black oil sunflower seed, it can cause fatty liver.
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I have a pip! Let the games begin!
These portal doors are just the coolest thing, IMO. At first, the chicks are in a seperate pen with the doors closed. But they can see the flock and the flock can see them. Then, when the chicks are old enough, the doors are opened and they can mingle with the flock but can safely return to their pen without the bigger ones being able to follow.
I did not know they lived that long!
Sorry, hopefully they will fix you up soon.
Oh good gravy, my yard will never be the same unless we plow it back up. They dig big holes, especially anywhere that water sits. I have the feeder sitting on paver bricks. There are many holes all the way around the brick pad!
Lol!
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