Chickens

I’m happy to report that the chicks have grown so well that they had to finally be moved out to the coop. 🙁  I have to say that I was happy to see them grow, but was very sad to see them leave.  I know, they are only two houses away, but it isn’t the…

Can you believe it!!! We have had our chicks for two weeks now. They are doing very well and doing what chicks do best: eat, drink and make a mess in their box.  Yesterday, we took them outside for a little while so we could clean up their box. Here are a few pictures of…

JIF (the chick in the back) and Moses (the front chick) It’s been a few days since I have posted an update about our baby chicks. Yesterday, our fourth and final chick decided to hatch.  Everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly until about an hour after hatching, when the chick started to bleed all over…

Today was a interesting day, caring for chicks for most of it.  We started out the morning with making our brooding box for the newly hatched chicks.  That took almost an hour just trying to find all the equipment.  Then we noticed that one of the chicks seems to be having problems with one of…

Today was a day of lots of progress in the incubator.  Our first chick to have pecked a hole in its shell is still working on escaping.  However, around 8am, another chick cracked it’s shell. Then another chick did the same thing around 1pm.  The one at 1pm was our fastest chick to emerge from…

One of our eggs has made progress and now there is chip in the egg shell. If you look at the picture, the chip is at the base of the egg, just above the water dish. The chicks are still peeping away, and in one of the eggs you can hear the chick pecking away…