Wisconsin "Cheeseheads"

[Celtic Chick]

Hello. New to the site. And new chicken owners.

and to the Cheesehead thread! Whereabouts in the state are you located if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Celtic Chick]

Like the heat pad idea... probably going to have the chicks in the house for first two weeks in a large rubbermade bin.

kristi, you will really like the heating pads, especially in that hutch. They work great and use a fraction of the electricity as heat lamps. No worries about the lamp falling in the brooder or it getting too hot for the chicks or having to move the lamp every week. The heat pads have a preset temp for 100* and the chicks can lay on it as often or as little as they wish. I pretty much use them all the time now, even with chicks right out of the bator. I lay it on one end of the incubator & put the food & water on the other. The small one takes up a third of the floor space in my brooder.

 

[wyoDreamer]

For brooding my chicks, I put a heating pad wrapped in a towel on a 3" tall cooling rack (it is one of a stackable set). I put about 2" of bedding under it for the day-old chicks, they scratch it down to the level they wanted. As the chicks grew, I added wood strips under the legs to raise it up. They went under when they were cold, and slept on it a lot of times. Next time I will use Glad Press and Seal on the top to make it easier to clean.
I used on of those "city coops" that you see for sale in the stores the first week the chicks were confined to the nest box/roosting area - pulled out the divider and the roost sticks. After that time, I moved the food and water to the lower level and let the chicks have the whole thing. In the store they advertise it as able to hold 4 chickens, but I would never put 4 chickens in there.

 

[Cindlady]

Hi All.

Well, Rudy went out with DH when he went out to get wood and got hit by a car. Thank goodness nothing broke, but he has a displaced hip. Going to try to keep it in place without surgery, if it doesn't work then he may have to get it pinned.

Night All

 

[jvls1942]

good winter type weather morning.

I don't have any plans for today.

already just about all cuppa'd up.

I hope Rudy mends OK. dogs have a great ability for mending .

......jiminwisc.......

 

[Celtic Chick]

How horrible Cindy. Poor Rudy. I hope the vet gave him plenty of pain meds & he heals up fast.

 

[mbrinkman1956]

Were located in Potosi, in the SW corner of the state. Grant Co.

 

[chickendreams24]

Hi All.

Well, Rudy went out with DH when he went out to get wood and got hit by a car. Thank goodness nothing broke, but he has a displaced hip. Going to try to keep it in place without surgery, if it doesn't work then he may have to get it pinned.

Night All

@Cindlady so sorry to hear that hope he heals well and quickly.

Were located in Potosi, in the SW corner of the state. Grant Co.

welcome the are a few others of us in southern WI but I don't think anyone else is that far west.

 

[Daethen]

Were located in Potosi, in the SW corner of the state. Grant Co

Hey, we are in Grant Co. too. Near Richland Center. Howdy neighbor!

 

[mbrinkman1956]

Hey, we are in Grant Co. too.  Near Richland Center.  Howdy neighbor!