The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[delisha]

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[Bulldogma]

Would it be considered cheating (no longer natural) to create a coop area in one of the rooms (complete with lots of real) grass in lots of trays all over the room? I really really want my chickens but this house is amazing! And quite a bargain, too. If I had lots of natural light and carpeted the room with grass, would they be happy?

Sorry, but both you and they would be miserable! If you really want to keep chickens that badly, you need to keep looking. Perhaps the perfect place (in a town that allows chickens) is just around the corner.

All of my shipped eggs that went into lock down have exterior piped. I am a wreck. I need sleep. All my eggs have hatched that are going to hatch. I just want to be done. These chicks are eating that FF like it is pure honey. I have one pasty butt..wierd

Sorry this hatch hasn't gone as smoothly as it might have, but so far you have some lovely chicks. It sure would be nice if you got a few more HRIR hatches.

 

[jendodd79]

I do have one Wyandotte - lol! She's definitely at the bottom of the totem pole though. I have no idea why! She won't come anywhere near us and hides out in the coop while everyone is outside enjoying themselves

 

[zinia8]

I should have specified, I am on the iPad.
The mobile version, even on the iPad, is a bit odd. Took me a bit to find the buttons to navigate away from the home page.

I use android phone and on the BLOG if you go to the bottom of the page you can switch the view to full website/desktop. same goes for BYC. I like the mobile version of BYC but the desktop version of the Blog.

 

[stonykill]

Wait so how many have not hatched? Your last part was confusing

I get pasty butt still in the first couple days. Until the FF gets into their systems. I used to have terrible issues with the paste. Not anymore!

i had one chick once with pasty butt. Back when I used to believe chicks needed 95 degree's F of heat........ Are you talking chicks only with pasty butt or hens?

 

[Bulldogma]

I use android phone and on the BLOG if you go to the bottom of the page you can switch the view to full website/desktop. same goes for BYC. I like the mobile version of BYC but the desktop version of the Blog.

Thank you for the great tech support!

 

[delisha]

Quote: I have 5 RIR piped eggs..they are the only ones left..(the shipped eggs)
sorry..i am so tired..i will probably read what i wrote and not understand it myself.
My eggs that i put in (from my bird) are all hatched

 

[delisha]

Quote: I have one chick with a pasty butt..the rest are fine. They just started eating today. Hopefully by tomorrow the FF will kick in.

 

[CESpeed]

Sorry, but both you and they would be miserable! If you really want to keep chickens that badly, you need to keep looking. Perhaps the perfect place (in a town that allows chickens) is just around the corner.

The town allows chickens but there is no yard. The room I'm thinking of is really huge. Actually a little bigger than the coop I planned to build them. That's why I thought to compensate for their being no yard for them to forage, in I would carpet the room with grass and hide mealworms and crickets so they wouldnt feel like they were in a factory. And there is a lot of natural light. Still no?.

 

[delisha]

2 more are out..

I might get to sleep tonight after all.

2 are working hard at it..I have not helped any of them... I stay up..just in case i am needed. I am never needed. I should just get my hinny to bed.

One of the things i have noticed, with this extended time in the incubator the chicks belly/s are squished into the form of the egg. It is gross looking. I sure hope I can correct this incubator problem. I is sooooo much easier with a hen, you go out to the coop and see egg shells.