Spring 2017 first timers post!

[nancyhaun]

I am working on my first coop, the brooder will be in the coop and I am using the Mama Heating Pad.  I am getting 7 chicks the first week of April 2017.   I was hoping to get a few of us newbies together who are gearing up for our first time this spring!  Lets post pictures of our coops, our birds when we get them and see who gets the first egg!

Who is in?

Gary from Idyllwild Ca here

 

[nancyhaun]

I have 10 chicks they live in the spare room off the back deck...not sure how old they are maybe 3 weeks...i can watch them from the living room.
When can i feed them fun food like cabbage and berries?
I have more problems using tnis site tnen raising chickens

 

[nancyhaun]

 

[dobermanacres]

Hi everyone!

I'm a first timer for Spring 2017 as well

My flock was supposed to be ready for pick up this morning...but they had other plans...they hatched on Wednesday and I got the call on Thursday that I could pick them up on my way home from work. I worried about them all day at work yesterday, but they were fine! Looking forward to spending the weekend with them.

I have 2 Plymouth Rocks and 2 Rhode Island Reds from the University of Alberta Heritage Chickens Program https://www.heritagechickens.ca/home/

Here they are:

 

[lilmarie84]

What kind of Plymouth Rocks I have two White Rock chicks

 

[dobermanacres]

What kind of Plymouth Rocks I have two White Rock chicks

Hi lilmarie84,

The Heritage Chicken program just refers to them as Plymouth Rocks... but here's the info they have on the birds in their program:

"The breeds we have at the PRC were obtained from Dr. R. Crawford, University of Saskatchewan, after many years of selection and maintained as an unselected population since 1965 (Crawford 1990). However, when Dr. Crawford retired, a new home was found for these breeds at the Poultry Research Centre in Edmonton. Their original characteristics have been maintained over the years without any change in their body conformation and production performance. Some rare characteristics recorded at the PRC include showing dual purpose breeding characteristics (egg and meat production), lays brown egg, average mid-cycle egg weight is 58 grams. - See more at: https://www.heritagechickens.ca/breeds/#breeds-container

 

[Treerooted]

Picked up my first chicks today

 

[dobermanacres]

Picked up my first chicks today

Wow! Beautiful colours! What breeds did you get?

 

[naturegeek168]

Picked up my first chicks today

So many fluff nuggets!

 

[Treerooted]

Wow! Beautiful colours! What breeds did you get?

I know, they're really quite beautiful.

Buff Brahma
Buff Orpington
Black Australorp
Sepeckled Sussex
Golden Laced Wyandotte
Barnvelder