A New Love Affair

Hip Hillbilly Farm

Songster
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I don’t know if you want them to run to you or it doesn’t matter, but it is nice to have chicks/chickens run to you when you have food in case you need to round everyone up at any point! I like to put wet mash in as a treat (just a bit of their food moistened with water). I start the first day or two with it in a small container placed in the brooder (think condiment cup to Dixie cup size), by day 3 I hold the container so they get used to my hand coming in, and after a day or so of that 1-2 times a day, I hold the mash in my hand and let them climb on my hand while they eat. I also say “chickie chickie” whenever I give them a treat. My big girls come a runnin when they hear “chickie chickie”, so I can get them to go in the coop, into the run, or come back toward me if they are somewhere I don’t want them to be just by saying the magic “treat phrase”. Lol
Uwww, love your signature quote. Think I'll re-write that for calligraphy practice in my journal. Thanks!

ETA: Wait! I just read the rest of it. Too dang cool . . . STOP! Hammer time!!!
 

Vicker

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Do not worry too much about the temperature recommendations. Lots of people keep them way too hot most of the time. Also start preparing a bigger brooder. That's not going to be enough space for long. They'll start flitting around soon and like to perch up off of the bottom.
 

Sharonea1959

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Sep 16, 2018
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Has begun!

I picked up my first chicks this afternoon. Sigh (of relief).

I keep running into their room to check on them. They were loud at first (I figured they will need to get used to here vs. the store). Then I hurried to get their heat lamp set up. The thermometer in their room reads 89 degrees. I hear it should be more like 95. They were huddled together and I was going to move them under the lamp. Then it came to me . . . place the lamp over them. They got real quiet.

Here are some pics of our brooder (before I placed heater over the chicks). Get this, I can NOT figure out how to get the water into the receptacle. I simply poured some into the drinky part. But I figured water should be in the white part not just the red. I have the electrolytes in it but most of it is in the kitchen in a container.

Constructive criticism welcomed; i.e., heellpppppp!!!!!
The waterer, it just twists off. Should turn easy. Hold the white part, turn the red. Or vice versa. Should be little 'clips' for the jug bottom to slide into
 

Hip Hillbilly Farm

Songster
Premium Feather Member
Nov 7, 2021
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Georgia, USA
Do not worry too much about the temperature recommendations. Lots of people keep them way too hot most of the time. Also start preparing a bigger brooder. That's not going to be enough space for long. They'll start flitting around soon and like to perch up off of the bottom.
My thoughts were that next step would be their coop. No?????
 

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