How precious! It has been years since i have been around little chicks. My parents and my grandmother used to raise them when I was growing up and they are darling.
I hope you will continue posting pictures of them. I am trying to remember .... but don't you need to put some kind of medication in their water? It seems that I remember that for some reason.
I can just remember little dead ones every day. Maybe that was just because there were always so many and it was easy for infections to start that way. I remember Daddy putting something in their water jars. Way back then, he bought them at the local feed store every year..He was the agriculture teacher at the local high school. We always had the PERFECT farm in those days. The ag kids would come to our farm and innoculate the chickens and do all kinds of other stuff. We had a big chicken house and Daddy even had music playing in there I remember. He left the lights on all the time because he said they ate better that way. We raised white leghorn chickens. My granny, on the other hand, had her own little farm and she let the hens set the eggs. Those were the days that everyone had long wooden boxes on legs for them with wire runs for the outside part of the box and a kerosene lamp under the closed in part of the box to keep the chicks warm. My grandmother didn't have electricity so that was how those folks did it when they bought chicks in town. Daddy had an electric warming light under his. My word! I hadn't thought of all of that stuff for years.
We also had a working dairy on our farm and I remember Daddy playing music for the cows in the milking barn too. Maybe he just liked music, huh? I wonder if he played country music for the country cows and chickens. LOL I don't remember.
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Mine are the smaller yellow ones and the one small very dark brown one. It came from a blue egg and is an aracauna though I think it is actually an easter egger. The 9th chick to hatch had a crippled foot from being too long in hatching. I kept it seperated from the others in an ice cream bucket in the brooder and it is fine this morning. I am glad I did not have to cull it. None of the other eggs have hatched. I don't hold out hope for them but I am giving them the rest of the week. Then I will toss them.
The bator is going again. This time it contains 12 golden comet mixed eggs, 1 unknown big stock egg, 5 bantam eggs and 7 game hen eggs. I set it yesterday so we have a long way to go. The chicks in the brooder are growing quickly and it looks like quite a few of them are roos. We will eat them so I need some more pullets. We will sell the game and bantam chicks.
The second hatch is now history. I have 10 chicks and 2 may have to be culled. They are both bantams and are having problems. I am giving them every chance. We lost power a few times during the 21 day incubation process and that may have contributed to the low hatch rate. I may set some more eggs Thursday or Friday. Those are the last good days this month according to the almanac.
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