Tracy Collins Webboard User Reg: 10-09-2008
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Since I know some of you are also backyard chicken keepers, I thought I'd let you know that my very first shipment of day old chicks arrived in the mail yesterday and are happily peeping away in the homemade brooder sitting on my dining room table. (93 degrees and holding.) So far, so good. One surprise: in addition to the 9 pullets I ordered, the hatchery included 11 (!) cockerels in the box to keep them warm. Sort of like living packing material, I suppose. Thank goodness for Craigslist. The boys have found a new home on a farm starting tomorrow which will give the girls more elbow room in their playpen. This is going to be fun.
BTW--the dogs seem more or less ambivalent. They sniffed the brooder, seemed interested in the peeping for a minute or two--I even took a chick out and held it in my hands for them to see and sniff. Now they're just ignoring the whole thing.
Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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That sounds promising. I always had problems with our spaniel on the farm once they got into the first feather, large pen on the floor mode.
Actually packing in extra chicks can be a great cost saver for these hatcheries. Heat packs cost money, chicks are usually lighter, and often times there are excess of certain male chick types that would otherwise be destroyed. Win for the buyer - win for the grower - win for the chickies
Yeah! Tiny chicks are just about one of life's cutest sights! I know you are are going to enjoy them! What breed(s) did you receive?
To be honest, I would have been a bit annoyed at the grower sending me 11 extra cockerels without permission, or even 11 extra pullets! It certainly puts the pressure on you to either feed and house, slaughter or find homes for 11 extra birds! Yikes! I can see where it is great for them to get rid of extra little roos they aren't going to sell, but...
In any case, you are going to love, love, love watching your gals' grow (and they grow very fast!) and then those yummy eggs! Congrats.
I've had two chicken-eating dogs, an italian greyhound and a bull terrier. The bull terrier could eliminate a chicken in seconds. If I looked away for a minute, there would be nothing left but feet. She would not eat the feet.
Chicken - eating doesn't seem to be a curable condition in my hands. Hope yours don't start!
I've had two chicken-eating dogs, an italian greyhound and a bull terrier. The bull terrier could eliminate a chicken in seconds. If I looked away for a minute, there would be nothing left but feet. She would not eat the feet.
Chicken - eating doesn't seem to be a curable condition in my hands. Hope yours don't start!
An electric fence around our chicken yard convinced our dogs that live chickens were most definitely on their list of "things I don't wanna kill today". Took two shocks and now they look at live chickens like very evil, magical creatures. I had four 8 week old pullets outside in a dog kennel today so I could clean their brooder, and when the dogs came out both of them looked at me like I was setting up a trap for them and gave that kennel a very wide berth!
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