On this day the baby chickens officially turned 4 weeks old, at which point i could stop making my one room tiny house like the arctic to keep the heat lamp area at 95, 90, 85, or 80 degrees. I no longer had to walk around in sweatshirts and fleece pants, and i could cuddle …
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Baby Chickens Update
I ended up with one chocolate orpington rooster, one americauna hen, and four chocolate orpington hens. They continued to grow until they were eventually tall enough to discover the brooder box window through which i could observe them. They began sticking their heads out this little opening to survey the bathroom.
Dropping off Chicks and Picking up Plants
When i went to town to drop off the five chicks with my coworker i had to wait at walmart for a bit and i thought id check out the plant section rather than just sit in the car. Turns out walmart is in the business of killing plants rather than selling them. I told …
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The Chicks Arrive!
I had strategically scheduled my staycation to begin one day before my batch of 12 chocolate orpington chicks and 1 mystery chick were supposed to arrive at the post office in my small town. I had ordered from a hatchery id never used before and it had mixed reviews so i was nervous about whether …
Setting up the Brooder Box
Honestly, as many years as i’ve had chickens now, i’ve never had a legit brooder box. This is partly because i’ve never timed the purchase of chicks with the weather in my area. Not a lot of planning ever went into it. I just purchased chicks when the older batch had died and i needed …
Ordering Baby Chickens in June in Texas
Okay, i began with six chickens, or what i thought would be six chickens. iris turned out to be more of an ira, which was fine until he hit his homicidal streak, began ripping out all the chickens feathers, beating them daily if they did not cooperate with his advances, and engaged me in a …
The Chickens Needed to go Outside
As time went on the little chicks began to shed their fuzzy fluff and pick at these tubes that appeared with their beaks. As they picked at the hard plastic-like tubes, they unfurled into little feathers. They were forever picking at themselves with their beaks and each time i peered into the stock tank they …
Impulse Buy of the Century
I first began hearing about Covid-19 in february. In the beginning, it was this thing that was only in china and then italy. There wasn’t a sense of panic at that time. We didn’t have a widespread belief that it was coming here. But then, they brought all these americans with covid-19 from china over …