Recent content by emyancey

Some hatcheries ship chicks with sustenance.

I am so sorry! I ordered mine from Mt. Healthy Hatcheries and they were air mailed next day. I had them the morning after they hatched and my USPS was wonderful. This is so awful and I am truly so sorry.

UPDATE: This is now Fern at 7 weeks! Her sister, Myrtle, is so fluffy and feathered and Fern is still not. They're both so sweet 😊 Saffron is behind Myrtle on the ramp - she's an EE and my biggest baby.

I ended up putting four gable vents in; one on each side of both transom window spaces as suggested in one of the comments here. I put a livestock grade exhaust fan in one end, and I put in two 22x10 gable vents in the other end. I think it will be good! The temporary run has now been put up...

Darn chickens not following the rules! hahahahaha

Good! Then there is still hope! haha I only have the two and their legs and feet are covered in feathers. I wish I'd ordered a third! This is Fern yesterday.

I love the updates!! Thank you! My Fern is currently COVERED in pin feathers. Like her little body decided to grow them ALL AT ONCE 😔 One of the others pecked one tonight and she was bleeding. She is the only one with a ton of baby fluff still and she keeps cramming herself under other chicks...

Looks like my Buff Brahma chicks!

I love this thread so much!!! It's hard to find photos of the development of Buff Brahmas. I have two Buff Brahma babies right now and they turned five weeks old yesterday (5/22/24) and one is so feathered and the other is not at all and has bigger legs and feet and they are both supposed to...

I have some snuggly babies that are five weeks old and they are pullets and they look me square in the eye like that, too!!! One, a Black Australorp named Poppy, makes me nervous because she sits on my shoulder and will do it and I don't want my eye to get pecked out 😂

Thank you!

I have two Buff Brahmas that are supposed to be female. They are four weeks old today. I read that the Buff color is auto-sexing, but Fern is sooo featherless compared to Myrtle! Her little shoulders are naked!! They looked identical when they were teeny babies. I looked at my other girls and...

Weclome! 😊

This is all so amazing! I have enjoyed reading it all! I really love your sun shade idea. Could you please tell me how you ended up rigging it up? I live in a very similar climate as you in Northern New York and love the idea!!!!

Hi! My shed has FINALLY arrived and we are getting busy on turning it into a coop for my chickies!!! It is 10x16. The coop end is the end with the man door. The pop door into the run will go into that door. I want to do my droppings boards about waist high, which on me is around 40-42" and...