Utah!

[sideWing]

All this talk about sprouts and fodder, I though I would post a picture of my primitive set up. I had thought about an automatic rack but I'm not sure where I would put it so for now it's just 7 trays that I manually rinse. The trays I'm using are recycled. When we moved here last summer the power company was running a promotion on LED lights so we were able to replace all our can lights for nothing. We had so many of the blister packs that the new lights came in I thought I would save them. You know, one is trash but 40 is cool! So when we started the chickens I had the idea to repurpose the blisters as sprouting trays. I punched holes in one and then nested it in an intact one. Each pair makes a tray. I lift out the punched one and rinse over the sink, shake out the excess and put it back in the intact one. I feed them at 7 days so we have 7 sets. I am using wheat since I have a bit of it on hand and it is cheap. I think a tray costs about 10 cents.

That's a sweet setup!

 

[fiveidahoboys]

i think the stuff i bought from Steve Regan's in Logan says Cache Commodities on it. I'll have to check on the bag.

 

[gus2pp]

Neuport, that is a great set up! That fodder looks so pretty. Ha ha

Sidewing, your pictures earlier were pretty great too. Genius for brooding.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Ok I have a few baby pics. I have a couple out early...
Two of these little guys, good head lumps already and beards.

For fun, pics of blue and splash growouts.

Her head lump is so tall it looks kind of ugly right now, but I think when all those feathers fluff out she's going to be a good one

 

[iPickYupik]

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Ok I have a few baby pics. I have a couple out early...
Two of these little guys, good head lumps already and beards.

For fun, pics of blue and splash growouts.

Her head lump is so tall it looks kind of ugly right now, but I think when all those feathers fluff out she's going to be a good one

I love them! I can't wait to have fluffy silkie babies!

 

[gus2pp]

Cute! Love their faces.

That pretty blue splash one in the middle sort of reminds me of Doc Hopper from the muppets. Ha ha ha

 

[newmarch2014]

I only have the 4 grown and 4/ 9 week olds and some don't like fodder so I don't go through too much so I went to the dollar store and bought 4 kits of sand toys that have a round, plate size sand sifter. I soak the pasture seed for a day in a jar then put it in the sifter. The holes are small enought to hold most of the seed in but it really drains nicely and is light weight. It gets a good mat of roots at the bottom. I rinse it each day then set it in the top of a big round top to a take out container (I think from Cafe Rio ) and it never stinks or rots. it takes me a week to use one. so

every 5 days or so I start a new one.

 

[fiveidahoboys]

hey yall I have lots of chicks for sale. I hatched em last week . I have rir, americuanas, red and black sex links, barred rocks a few buff orphington and some black Australopes . Also have some mixed that are black copper with Americuana. I'm in paradise ( cache valley ) call mat 8019153337. 1 dollar each straight run

Great price! Wish you had these a couple of months ago when I got mine. Are they true Ameracaunas or Easter eggers? I would really like Ameracaunas

 

[fiveidahoboys]

I've been wondering how good of a selection the Preston IFA had. The IFAs in Hyde Park and Logan don't have much and their chicks haven't looked good so I try to stay away. Sounds like Preston might be a better bet for me since its closer to me than Ogden.

I enjoyed getting chicks at IFA Preston. Granted I might not be that picky and definitely not an expert. What I liked though is that they were older. Some of mine I figured were three weeks old when I got them! I hated to walk In there one day and find that their chicks were literally starving and so thirsty for water that they fought over the open container for water and all of them, I mean all of them, were drenched! They had pushed each other into the water fighting over it. I said, "what happened to these chicks?" They hadn't yet seen it ( they had just been watered. )The chicks were shaking they were so cold and crammed in the corner by the heat so tight they had actually trompled a few. I'm not an animal rights activist by any stretch, but I was saddened. An honest mistake and when I came back the next week they had purchased the big stacked brooders like they have in Hyde park. I went to Hyde park to get my Easter eggers. They were all out on Preston. They were day olds but I got three very different looking ones and I love them! They had some golden campines at Preston that were very big! They had beautiful feathers and hardly any fuZz if any. I really wanted one but I already had 17 chicks!

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh my! I'll take this one!