These chicks are going to drive me insane.

[4 luv of eggs]

Actually I think the monitor would keep me up all night, listening for the slightest peep. They were just fine this morning. They were all together by the water cooler when I turned their light on for them.

Raising a human baby is easier to some extent. You don't keep them in a box and you can hold them for extended periods of time.

Kidding aside, this is like anything else that is new and it's just a matter of getting used to it.

 

[yotetrapper]

I too have used a lighter as a light more than once, lol.

 

[my3chickens]

I thought I was going to have to attend Chicken Obsession Anonymous but now I realize I'm not alone!!

My chicks are 4 weeks old and still in the house till the weather warms up a bit, so after 9 p.m. I sneak through the house with the lights off because I wouldn't want to disturb their sleep, I thought I broke my toe last night when I ran into the kitchen island, couldn't turn the lights on it might wake them!!

 

[FenDruadin]

I was up last night heaving a giant tarp over the duck run because I worried about my juvenile ducks not going into their dog house in the rain. Barefoot, muddy, soaked to the skin, holding a flashlight in my mouth. Then I was up all night fretting over the fact that they wouldn't use the half of the run that was covered because they were afraid of the tarp. Nope, not insane. Yet.

 

[ShannonS79]

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Good idea!!

 

[Why and Dotte]

No not crazy at all, family will start whispering and talking behind your back when you hit crazy

Yea going out during rainstorms barefooted always gets them talking, "did you just step in chicken poop!"

 

[Chickenmaven]

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Yep! It's true.

 

[SkyWarrior]

Keep your flashlight where the kids can't get it or buy one of those flashlights you can shake to light it up.

You obviously don't have near the predators I have. The first night with the chicks, we had a mountain lion visit.

There's no way in H-E-Double-Toothpicks I'm going out with a flashlight in the middle of the night to check on the chicks.

That will cure you, if nothing else. After the first week, I stopped really worrying because nothing had eaten them.

Relax. Take deep breaths.

 

[SkyWarrior]

Keep your flashlight where the kids can't get it or buy one of those flashlights you can shake to light it up.

You obviously don't have near the predators I have. The first night with the chicks, we had a mountain lion visit.

There's no way in H-E-Double-Toothpicks I'm going out with a flashlight in the middle of the night to check on the chicks.

That will cure you, if nothing else. After the first week, I stopped really worrying because nothing had eaten them.

Relax. Take deep breaths.

 

[erin76]

I am new to raising chickens as well. Between my husband, me, and our 2 sons (8 and 5), someone is always going out to "check on the chicks". One of us goes out every night to make sure they are in the henhouse, and I go out every morning to make sure they are up. Sometimes it feels like having infants all over again! They are sooo funny to watch!