LadybugLauren
Hatching
- Nov 28, 2024
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(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
We hatched our first batch of eggs August 11th/12th. Of those 26 eggs, we hatched 13 babies. 1 had help and lived a very loved 5 days before passing on, RIP Lucky. The ongoing dozen are 15 weeks old now, a hodge podge of breeds and loving life in their new coop and run after many patient weeks in the porch brooder while we built it and carted them back and forth for a bit. 7 of those appear to be roosters so we are now building a Rooster Run to separate them... keeping the gene pool broad for future generations lol.
Chicken math struck so we immediately ordered 10 more sexed females, fingers crossed. They arrived yesterday in the mail which was slightly stressful... and we in chickie bliss once again.
Between the chickie chaos and Thanksgiving meal prep, we didn't get out to check on our big chickens to 9:30 this morning (auto door, etc). We couldn't find our silkie Mowhawkie and had a brief heart attack double checking the coop and run before finding her trapped in the empty and flipped over fodder tray. That have us a good giggle, after the fear of our first murder scene subsided.
Because our original 12 were from Etsy and our new 10 were for "brown egg layers", we aren't 100% on all our breeds. But we love them all the same and cannot wait for eggs to start being laid closer to Christmas/NYE.
My husband and I have 3 kids living with us. Teen boy, elementary boy, and pre school princess who spends her days handling chickens like she was born to do it. I'm an accountant while hubby is a construction handy man guru. Thankful to be doing life together with him and finally have some land to do it!
In addition to now 22 chickens, we have a 80 lb mutt dog named Moose that looks like a Chocolate lab mix, a beta fish named Lulu (princess drove that confusion), and 2-3 barn cats depending on the food we are offering on the porch cafe
Thanks in advance for all the wisdom you more experienced folks share. You've already helped us address curled toe paralysis with B12 on our sweet Silver chickie. She is walking steadier already!
Anywhooo... happy Thanksgiving! Who else is dreaming of raising turkeys next year?
P.S. Thank goodness these threads show up on Google for lost newbies like myself!
P.P.S. Small sample of our journey thus far via pictures (just 10!) ...
We hatched our first batch of eggs August 11th/12th. Of those 26 eggs, we hatched 13 babies. 1 had help and lived a very loved 5 days before passing on, RIP Lucky. The ongoing dozen are 15 weeks old now, a hodge podge of breeds and loving life in their new coop and run after many patient weeks in the porch brooder while we built it and carted them back and forth for a bit. 7 of those appear to be roosters so we are now building a Rooster Run to separate them... keeping the gene pool broad for future generations lol.
Chicken math struck so we immediately ordered 10 more sexed females, fingers crossed. They arrived yesterday in the mail which was slightly stressful... and we in chickie bliss once again.
Between the chickie chaos and Thanksgiving meal prep, we didn't get out to check on our big chickens to 9:30 this morning (auto door, etc). We couldn't find our silkie Mowhawkie and had a brief heart attack double checking the coop and run before finding her trapped in the empty and flipped over fodder tray. That have us a good giggle, after the fear of our first murder scene subsided.
Because our original 12 were from Etsy and our new 10 were for "brown egg layers", we aren't 100% on all our breeds. But we love them all the same and cannot wait for eggs to start being laid closer to Christmas/NYE.
My husband and I have 3 kids living with us. Teen boy, elementary boy, and pre school princess who spends her days handling chickens like she was born to do it. I'm an accountant while hubby is a construction handy man guru. Thankful to be doing life together with him and finally have some land to do it!
In addition to now 22 chickens, we have a 80 lb mutt dog named Moose that looks like a Chocolate lab mix, a beta fish named Lulu (princess drove that confusion), and 2-3 barn cats depending on the food we are offering on the porch cafe
Thanks in advance for all the wisdom you more experienced folks share. You've already helped us address curled toe paralysis with B12 on our sweet Silver chickie. She is walking steadier already!
Anywhooo... happy Thanksgiving! Who else is dreaming of raising turkeys next year?
P.S. Thank goodness these threads show up on Google for lost newbies like myself!
P.P.S. Small sample of our journey thus far via pictures (just 10!) ...
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