Raising Baby Chicks

I can order my little Silkies!

feeds@yuku.com (Georgiapea) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:26:31 GMT

I've got a Silkie order 'hanging around' over at the My Pet Chicken site, and today I picked up a cage to put them in. The ship date for MPC's expected hatch is Nov. 9th, so with a cage ready for them I can finalize the order. I'm getting blue, white, and partridge and am so excited.

Georgia in Alabama

Look at my little camera ham

feeds@yuku.com (HINKJC) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:09:42 GMT

Isn't he a cutie?

Vaccinated baby chicks?

feeds@yuku.com (Georgiapea) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:53:53 GMT

I'm working on placing my first baby chick order and found I need to check vaccinated or unvaccinated. Vaccinating day old babies? For what? Is this a good thing and I want to pay the extra .50?

Thanks,

Georgia, scratching her head in Alabama..............

Sad New :(

feeds@yuku.com (treegod) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:50:39 GMT

I have sad news about two of the chicks I told you all about.

One day they were all fine and the next day I found the two yellows pecked to death. Ivy had been over zealous in her jealousy of other chicks and killed them. I didn't imagine that would happen.

The good news is that Blacky and Stripey are both alive and well.

You never know until you try

feeds@yuku.com (robin416) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:16:16 GMT

The scene: A SS Hamburg with a chick. Fast forward four days, the same SS Hamburg with two chicks. Where the second one came from is a mystery but obviously much younger than its sib.

Problem: Second peep not ready for prime time. Cried constantly for extra warmth. Struggled mightily to keep up.

Solution: Remove SS Hamburg peep and put it with Silkie that had peeps.

That worked quite well. Silkie gave the new peep the evil eye for a moment then promptly fluffed...

You have mail

feeds@yuku.com (darlasmum) — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:51:47 GMT

Heres almost 2 wk old Penny helping me check my email. Of the three chicks, she is definately the boldest and most friendly. Check out that tail !!

The Triplets

feeds@yuku.com (darlasmum) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:54:30 GMT

These lil girls are Daisy, Penny and Clover. 2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 Barred Rock. They are 5 days old today, and so spunky. They wouldnt hold still, so I had to put them in a basket to keep them from scattering. They came Wednesday from MyPetChicken. Everyone at at the post office had big grins on their faces and wanted the box opened so they could see what was peeping. And if I...

Combining different age chicks??

feeds@yuku.com (18hens) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:56:52 GMT

This is kind of a dumb question but has anyone combined chicks of different ages with good results? My old girls are 3 weeks and the babies are 2 weeks. You would not think a week makes that much difference but the old girls are almost twice as big as the babies. I don't want anyone getting hurt.
Thanks.

layer ration?

feeds@yuku.com (mapsey) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:16:27 GMT

When is the very earliest chicks can eat a layer ration? I have 28 pullets that will be 14 weeks tomorrow and 5 mature laying hens. My chicks are rapidly outgrowing their enclosure and I want to integrate them with the hens. The layer ration I use says to start at 18 weeks, but will the chicks be harmed if they eat some before that? My hens have plenty of room to roam and the grain only makes up a small part of their diet; it is not like they are cooped up with only the layer ration to eat....

Old English Bantam chicks not thriving - day 3+ from hatch

feeds@yuku.com (llama) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:26:27 GMT

We've raised chicks for five plus years.
Wednesday, we received 40 chicks, various heritage breeds. (Shipped from the hatchery Monday.)

12 were Old English Bantams.
By Thursday we had lost two of Old English, and it's looking like two more aren't going to make it.
The remaining eight Old English bantams have been slow to get going too.
Our other 28 full size chicks are dandy, thriving, energetic and dong fine. We separated the bantams immediately when...

a hatching I have been

feeds@yuku.com (AnnaXLA1) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:49:30 GMT

have been hatching around here these are the results lol
in this bunch are silkie's and silkie/sutlan crosses, and sebright crosses there are 7 chicks

Help us save these baby ducks!! Please, Need Advice.

feeds@yuku.com (tori69b) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:23:42 GMT

Hello

My son found a mother duck that was hit and killed by a car, then he found the baby ducks. Some kids were picking on the ducklings. And my son knew enough to stop this and gather the ducks up and bring them home. We have raised chickens from hatchmany times before. So he knew that without the warmth and protection of the mother duck they would not make it.

We now have them in a brooding box. We have a wire floor, a heat lamp, water, and food. We asked the local feed...

chick walking funny? Advice needed!

feeds@yuku.com (dearduckyducky) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:04:08 GMT

I have a golden sexlink chick aproximatly 8weeks old. This morning all was fine and dandy. I came home and checked on the flock, and this one bird is walking funny. The best way to describe it is like a child crouched down with their knees up to their chest, trying to waddle. She is eating and drinking, and I cannot find any trace of injury. She will stand normally for a bit, but as soon as she tries to walk, the backside goes down, and she waddles. I've seperated her into the coop...

4 Day old chick sneezing

feeds@yuku.com (racheltaylor) — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:05:23 GMT

I just hatched my first batch of chicks 4 days ago. I got the eggs from my aunt and they are all mixed breeds. I noticed today that 2-3 of my 16 chicks are sneezing. They are eating and drinking fine. I bought medicated chick crumbles. I just wanted to see if this is normal for them to be acting this way. I have them on a sheet in a baby pool. They have not been vaccinated since I incubated them and other than their feed I haven't given them anything else medicated. I'd...

OMG, a miracle egg

feeds@yuku.com (Homegirl) — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:32:23 GMT

After Bette hatched out over the weekend, I went to clean out the shelf/nestbox. What did i find but a unhatched egg...It has been there since sunday pm/monday am. It's wednesday pm now.... I started to toss it on the compost pile, figuring it was no good or she would have stayed on it....But I figured i would take it back and try candling it to see what I could see......Air sac on one end, solid otherwise... Shook it.... Solid.... As I was holding it in my hand, suddenly I felt a...

What am I????

feeds@yuku.com (Homegirl) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:39:28 GMT

Can anyone give me a guess what the yellow chickies are? They have small dark spots on their backs.... Ellen

Bette and her chicks

feeds@yuku.com (Homegirl) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:18:20 GMT

My first chicks..... I love them!!! Ellen

need help identifying chicks

feeds@yuku.com (furyps) — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:41:01 GMT

http://furyps.backyardchickens.yuku.com/fs/view/fid/91114

Does anybody know what breed of chicken these are? We got them at Tractor Supply, who supposedly got them from Mt. Healthy Hatchery in Cincinnati.

* CHICK PICTURES 2009 *

feeds@yuku.com (HINKJC) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:53:52 GMT

This pic is dedicated to Joshua who says we need a 2009 chick pic thread. Here you go!

a few new baby pics

feeds@yuku.com (DonnaP) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 04:41:22 GMT

Here are some pics of my new NN/Bantam mixes. All mutts and all loved WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY tooooo much!

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/donnapr/poultry%20pics%20april/017.jpg
http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e358/donnapr/poultry%20pics%20april/018.jpg