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[T Hi]

Well now that all the kids have came to the playground............... it's my bedtime!!!


Y'all be good! (well except for CR.. he don't know how)

 

[VelvettFog]

OH, and this may be a really silly question, but do the wood shavings have to be pine? Or can they be a mixture of different woods?

Do NOT use cedar. And you do not want to use sawdust for little babies.

 

[Justahannah]

I have two barred rock and two RIR reserved for me to bring home in the next few days. I've been trying to find two golden sex link that are roughly the same age (1 week) with no luck :cry:

Not sure where you're located, but if you're near Port Orchard at all, try contacting Pam at Raincreek Pottery. Her craigslist ad (http://seattle.craigslist.org/kit/grd/3231978743.html) shows them having a couple week old golden stars and another hatch coming up soon. We picked our pullets out there, and she was really knowledgeable and has a nice clean set-up .

 

[itsren]

We're setting it up just like how they're kept at the store we're purchasing them from (The Garden Sphere in Tacoma) - an aquarium with topper (chicken wire on a frame, HAHA), a heat lamp, and food/water feeders over newspaper. Does that sound about right? I'm designing a coop to build at the moment...

Welcome!

Question... do you already have an aquarium with a topper? Or are you spending money to buy one? I ask, because chicks will probably only live in an aquarium for a week or two (at most). Then you still have to come up with a larger, secondary brooder. Plus, the can tend to get too hot in an aquarium, so make sure you have a thermometer. Feed stores can keep them in small spaces, because they only plan to have them in there a few days before someone buys the chicks.

You could use a huge cardboard box for a brooder, just as easily. Just keep the heat lamp away from it so it doesn't catch fire. Or quickly build a wooden brooder - a very large box made out of wood.

My first brooder, for a couple weeks was a large Rubbermaid tub. Then they moved into a large wire dog crate.

 

[itsren]

Be careful associating with dat T Hi ... She is a quack head

Yup! She has a "girl" duck named Daffy. Who'd a thought a Daffy Duck would-a, could-a ever be a girl?

 

[justbugged]

Geeeez I wonder when JB is gonna post them pics on here or was her camera broke by the looks of the one in the hat ???

I am working on finding the cable for the camera/ I got ambushed by the little kids next door. Miss Emma is at least 3 years old and while she loves my animals, she is also afraid of them. So I spent way too much time carrying her around. My poor hips have not held up very well. Never the less I am going to try to post the pictures, before 3am

 

[ErinMartin927]

Welcome!

Question... do you already have an aquarium with a topper? Or are you spending money to buy one? I ask, because chicks will probably only live in an aquarium for a week or two (at most). Then you still have to come up with a larger, secondary brooder. Plus, the can tend to get too hot in an aquarium, so make sure you have a thermometer. Feed stores can keep them in small spaces, because they only plan to have them in there a few days before someone buys the chicks.

You could use a huge cardboard box for a brooder, just as easily. Just keep the heat lamp away from it so it doesn't catch fire. Or quickly build a wooden brooder - a very large box made out of wood.

My first brooder, for a couple weeks was a large Rubbermaid tub. Then they moved into a large wire dog crate.

We already have the aquarium... I do have the thermometer - should I keep it about chick height (3'' or so) if I end up using this while trying to track down a free or dirt cheap alternative? And the feed store has them in an aquarium/terrerium, but it's a good 5-6 feet long LOL I have a large dog crate, but holy bejebus I don't want that back in here until it's time to whelp pups again - that thing takes up massive amounts of space in my teeny little 1120 sq ft home. I'm thinking a rabbit cage sitting on my dresser will solve this issue!

 

[itsren]

...I'm thinking I may ask to pick up my birdies on Monday now instead, just to make sure I have everything here set up just the way it needs to be... I'm feeling under-prepared now!

Um.... I bought my chicks on a whim. Asked the feed store what I needed. They handed me a heat lamp, some food, some pine shavings and sent me on my merry way. They came home to no brooder set-up. I scrambled to find something to put them in (the Rubbermaid tub). Got them in, and amazingly enough - they survived! So, if they ask you to take them tomorrow, you should be fine! You are now way more prepared than I was! You know a lot more.

 

[Justahannah]

Yer DH would probably feel about the same as my DW. NOT Also we have had one BIG meet up and we sometimes have potlucks at shows. So are ya hinting ya may have a location we could invade??

It's a possibility...I'd have to talk to my husband of course, but he's pretty easy going and loves food and stories so that part's easy

. Mostly it would depend on timing and just how many people/cars we're talking about, I'm in Tacoma less than 10 minutes off i-5, so I think it's pretty central, but I just have a regular sized city yard so it wouldn't be as cool or as have as much running space for chitlins as visiting a farm. Or we could take over a pavilion at a big park, like Owens Beach in Point Defiance

 

[itsren]

Qwak qwak you been hacked

OMG! LOL! T-Hi, you weren't kidding, where you!