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[wgidir]

I am a newbie but can I please tell you how much I love this site. It was so hot today and I was so worried about my poor panting girls but I got out the frozen 2-liter bottles I read about here, put a sock on them, them in their pen, and voila! It didn't take long for the girls to lay next to and walk on them. I was happy it worked just like they said it would. I put ice in their nipple waterer throughout the day but after reading the last few posts, I will check to make sure that it is high enough.

My ladies are about 6-weeks old, I think, and I have been leaving their brooder light on in their house at night but with the temp tonight being so warm, I changed the bulb to a 60-watt for the first little bit but it seemed sooooooo bright that I just turned it off completely leaving them in the dark. Does that sound okay? :/

 

[Cynthia12]

I am a newbie but can I please tell you how much I love this site. It was so hot today and I was so worried about my poor panting girls but I got out the frozen 2-liter bottles I read about here, put a sock on them, them in their pen, and voila! It didn't take long for the girls to lay next to and walk on them. I was happy it worked just like they said it would. I put ice in their nipple waterer throughout the day but after reading the last few posts, I will check to make sure that it is high enough.
My ladies are about 6-weeks old, I think, and I have been leaving their brooder light on in their house at night but with the temp tonight being so warm, I changed the bulb to a 60-watt for the first little bit but it seemed sooooooo bright that I just turned it off completely leaving them in the dark. Does that sound okay?

It is really warm out there tonight. I have one of my young ones just wondering around just outside the coop because I have a light on..maybe she's too warm. The others don't mind the light, and they can get away from the heat if they need to. I also have a 60 in there for them. I have different ages in there. So some want it, some don't. They don't have to lay under the light.
Newbie ey?

 

[Cynthia12]

Ok Cynthia you got my vote!
Red I sure hope they find you truck and they guys that took it.
Daloorashen I was looking at all of your chickens. You have some fun ones.You are so lucky. They are just beautiful!
I wonder if I'll live long enough to have all the breeds I want to try.

Thanks auntie for the vote!

And I know I won't live long enough to try all of the chicks I like, and, I love ducks, but my back yard is just too small for those. Messy for small back yards.

Ok, I'm like Lisa..have some chicks to place. I need to place one of her wheatons. I have my fav. picked out. Pretty sure they are both girls..Lisa did a good job on her waving her hands over them and dubbing them girls.
I have an Exchequer. I am keeping the older one, she is turning out to be quite the cute, and beautiful bird. I will have to post pictures of her. She's a character. She's a piggy, like Miss Piggy, the white leghorn. She follows her around, knowing that Miss Piggy is usually the first to the treats and food. Too funny.
And, I have a couple of Welsummers babies. Just letting you know, whoever is closest or nearby may be interested. Those wheatons that I got from Lisa are going to be gorgeous. Lisa, who did you get them from? When did they hatch? I can't remember! Sorry. :/

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Cynthia the Wheaten/Blue Wheaten Ameraucanas hatched May 25-26, and they are from Montana byc member "azriel", (her name is Bonnie) she gave me the eggs at Chickenstock. Really pretty blue eggs.

Sasha love the video! Your second polish looks to be possible cuckoo too! The first one I cannot tell either for sure......but she might go blue still......my blue girl looked to be possibly cuckoo too then she got what I thought was going to be lacing for a while, then the lines softened and turned solid. I "think" mine might be cuckoo at this point, the black usually stays really solid. And dang on those wattles, now I am even more nervous! I wonder if that crest sexing info was wrong....

 

[MoriahQuilts]

Actually the problem is that aren't counting them right..  soooo here's a little lesson in Chicken Math..

Ok.. you started out good... 6 hens

but... pullets don't count till they are hens which is officially at 1 year old..  teenagers don't count either nor do the chicks... especially the chicks because 1/2 will be roosters and are gone anyway..

so really you have 6 + 0 + 0 + 1/2 of 0= 6 Chickens...    You should come see my barn... I only have 26 chickens (and maybe something like 150ish zeros that don't count...)
Not very long!!!! 

I like your style of chicken math!

92 chicken bodies, minus 30 teens, minus 22 Tweens, minus 12 chicks, minus 1 hen with the chicks, minus one broody hen, minus one rooster because he's working hard. I'm almost to my goal of 24 hens.

Since I almost have 24 hens I can get those 2 weaner pigs I've been wanting! Chicken math spreads across species.

 

[Sphinx]

Birdguy, I LOVE your chicken math. Let me try: 25 bodies minus 6 pullets not yet laying, minus 7 teenagers minus 8 tweens minus 3 babies= 2 chickens. Yay!!!

Sasha, Please, please please take the lavender ameraucana. He's such a sweetheart for the most part. For giggles I put the three two week old chicks in the pen, and he was kind of fighting with the one (oh crap, that means it's going to be a boy, doesn't it?

), so I decided to put him in with the big girls to teach him a lesson. I could tell things weren't going well, so 1-2 minutes later, I went into the big girls' pen. He literally jumped into my arms. Had dh cracking up at how anxious he was to get into my arms and away from the mean girls.


Welcome, wgidir! I think my one set of chicks is in the 6-7 week range, and I haven't given them light at all in a couple weeks. The tractor they're sleeping in has a fairly small box, and they all kind of huddle together and seem to do just fine.

 

[Daloorashens]

Actually the problem is that aren't counting them right.. soooo here's a little lesson in Chicken Math..

Ok.. you started out good... 6 hens

but... pullets don't count till they are hens which is officially at 1 year old.. teenagers don't count either nor do the chicks... especially the chicks because 1/2 will be roosters and are gone anyway..

so really you have 6 + 0 + 0 + 1/2 of 0= 6 Chickens...

You should come see my barn... I only have 26 chickens (and maybe something like 150ish zeros that don't count...)
Not very long!!!!

I like your math A LOT better than mine... if that's the case, I only have 4 hens, because 2 of the 'hens' just started laying in May, which leaves plenty of room for those pullets when they start laying=)

And your count seems about right... too... good luck with the extra 150ish 0's you need to find homes for, if I had a barn like you, I would need to fill it up and I would help you out=)

 

[Daloorashens]

Thanks Hattie and Lisa for compliments on my chickens... I like them, too, I think DH even likes them a little bit... Just really need to get a grow-out pen built for the teenagers...

Cynthia... thinking about your extra Amer... I'm thinking one of mine is a rooster, but I really don't want to take anymore unless I know they are girlies...

Was talking to my mom yesterday about her coop, and she's wanting to change a big portion of her shed area into a coop, it would actually end up being big enough for 2 coops... (You can see the wheels turning in my head now, right??) So we could have a Marans/Olive eggers pen and a wheaten Ameracauna pen.... what do you think?? I saw some pics of some Swedish Flower Hens, though, wow, VERY pretty chickens, and they're cold hardy, which is obviously important for where I live... maybe there's enough room over there for a 3rd pen.....

Was going to take pics for the Blue Roo, he's a great rooster and his feathers are coming back in nicely, I'm going to wait until he's a little more filled in (he was in with some other roos, so he's missing a few feathers... but very healthy and he's a great roo..

On that note... my EE teenager that is a roo is cracking me up... he's going to be a great roo.. he's already calling the other chicks when he finds food... cracks me up and he's barely 8 weeks old...

 

[Daloorashens]

Weolcome widgdir (sorry of not spelled right!)

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Thanks Hattie and Lisa for compliments on my chickens... I like them, too, I think DH even likes them a little bit...  Just really need to get a grow-out pen built for the teenagers...

Cynthia... thinking about your extra Amer... I'm thinking one of mine is a rooster, but I really don't want to take anymore unless I know they are girlies...

Was talking to my mom yesterday about her coop, and she's wanting to change a big portion of her shed area into a coop, it would actually end up being big enough for 2 coops...  (You can see the wheels turning in my head now, right??)  So we could have a Marans/Olive eggers pen and a wheaten Ameracauna pen.... what do you think??  I saw some pics of some Swedish Flower Hens, though, wow, VERY pretty chickens, and they're cold hardy, which is obviously important for where I live... maybe there's enough room over there for a 3rd pen.....

Was going to take pics for the Blue Roo, he's a great rooster and his feathers are coming back in nicely, I'm going to wait until he's a little more filled in (he was in with some other roos, so he's missing a few feathers... but very healthy and he's a great roo..

On that note... my EE teenager that is a roo is cracking me up... he's going to be a great roo.. he's already calling the other chicks when he finds food... cracks me up and he's barely 8 weeks old...

This is exciting!! So then we can buy fertile eggs from you to hatch olive eggers And blue eggers and choc eggers or chicks!!! Yay!!! We need more people around here with good quality breeder eggs and chicks. Shipped eggs are driving me crazy! I think Blujems is getting setup with the same breeds too, that would be awesome!!! The chocolate, olive and blue eggs are the fun ones

Bluejems, this is reminding me, to keep you posted here.....the FBCMarans babies I have are looking more and more positively one boy for you and one girl for me ! And I think I will have a Wheaten girl for you too, just need to grow them out a little more to be sure It is all working out nicely so far.