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Timothy Norton wrote:I don't want to be pushy but... Baby chicks are cute and if you mention them you should have to pay a photo tax! Show us the peepers if you can!
Children, Rabbits, Chickens, Bees
Timothy Norton wrote:Baby chicks are cute and if you mention them you should have to pay a photo tax! Show us the peepers if you can!
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
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Jay Angler wrote: How are you keeping them warm?
Jay Angler wrote: Have you seen them eat and drink?
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Loud is not such a good thing depending on the quality of the noise. Loud with a harsh edge to it usually means that something's wrong. They're most likely either too cold, or scared. Putting something over the tub to trap the warmth and make it seem less like they're out in the open may help - like the box idea I mentioned above. A thermometer near them should be reading about 92F when they're needing nap time for at least the first 5 days. The area they're running around in eating and drinking doesn't have to read quite that high, although it should be close because they don't have a mother to call them to nap time.Rachel Lindsay wrote:....and being loud. We're gonna have to block under our bedroom doors with a towel at night so we can sleep, ha!
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Jay Angler wrote:Lights out at night will signal sleep time, so they won't be silent, but they should be quieter. That said, quieter is relative and some of us are light sleepers!
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
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“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
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Timothy Norton wrote:Beware of chicken math...
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
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“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
Rachel Lindsay wrote:At one week old now these (12) chicks:
Drink a quart of water in 24 hours Have begun trying to use their wings (flapping and such) Play with each other Take dust baths Have different voices developing Jump on and off things They are so different than they were when they first arrived! They have figured out that they are birds and they are acting like mini-hens. Ha!
P.S. Our Mystery Chick is going to be either a Buff Orpington or a White Leghorn, and almost certainly male.
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
You don't have a cat, by any chance? I will do this if I can protect them from our young kitty!Kristine Keeney wrote: I brood in large plastic totes with hardware cloth lids in my kitchen.
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My hardware cloth (which is a type of wire mesh, not fabric) lids are secure enough that a young cat wouldn't get in, but they are also designed so as to be able to add a bungee cord if necessary.Rachel Lindsay wrote:
You don't have a cat, by any chance? I will do this if I can protect them from our young kitty!Kristine Keeney wrote: I brood in large plastic totes with hardware cloth lids in my kitchen.
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Rachel Lindsay wrote:
Further name suggestions are welcome!
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
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Rachel Lindsay wrote:Also, do I need to go buy grit today? How do I "serve" it to them?
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Hooray for Homesteading!
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
Rachel Lindsay wrote:I always heard everyone say that life with newborns was hard, and then it got easier.
Nope. Not how I see it. The newborn phase is the easy one, and they only need more from there.
I have found it to be the same with these chicks, who turn four weeks old tomorrow. The first week was the easy one!
Rachel Lindsay wrote:I always heard everyone say that life with newborns was hard, and then it got easier.
Nope. Not how I see it. The newborn phase is the easy one, and they only need more from there.
I have found it to be the same with these chicks, who turn four weeks old tomorrow. The first week was the easy one!
There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse. - Thomas Sowell
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein
“Every human activity is an opportunity to bear fruit and is a continual invitation to exercise the human freedom to create abundance...” ― Andreas Widmer
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