OK y'all,I just got my email and tracking number...my little fluffy butts are on their way home!!! I'll be having them stay in the 50 gallon storage bin for the 1st week or two in our spare bedroom . I'm so excited!
Wow! That's beautiful!!How perfect! A group of people as nutty (er, enthusiastic) about getting their first chicks as I am. I too am expecting my first chicks the first week of April. I have ordered from Meyer Hatchery and am expecting 4 chicks. One welsummer, one barnevelder, one cream legbar, and one Swedish flower hen. Just have my fingers crossed that they arrive healthy and are all pullets. I made my choices based on reported friendliness to both chickens and people, decent egg-laying, nice assortment of colored eggs, and not likely to go broody. I plan to start with these four, and then get four more when these slow down with their laying. This will be a grandma/granddaughter project, so these girls will have a home with us all their days, even after we are no longer getting eggs. The coop is about halfway finished. I will include photos if I can figure out how to post them. We purchased heather Bullard's coop plans, but doubled the width of the coop, and quadrupled the area of the run, giving us a footprint of 8 by 17 feet. I am planning on using a ferplast rabbit cage found on Amazon to use as a brooder. It's 64" long by 24" wide by 20" tall. I am hoping it will be large enough for them until they are coop ready. I am in Aptos, California, on the coast 40 miles North of Monterey and 70 miles South of San Francisco.
That looks nice and strong, yay for a good start!Here is my newly finished foundation
Welcome! I'm so excited for you!Hello, I've been lurking byc for a couple years but decided to take a plunge and ordered some babies who will be here next week.
Woohoo! 5 is a great number and I hope that you find the ones you want locally. Meyer hatchery and My Pet Chicken both do small orders from the Spring on, it just depends on your location and their in stocks.
Ah, the perfect sight to see this morning! Yay!!!The fluffy butts are here!
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Coops coming along! It seems HUGE, it's gonna be nice
Gary From Idyllwild Ca here
