Egg count

36 eggs this week.

Moving day!

The air under the brooder is heated up and it's time to move the chicks in. Dan transported them via a plastic tub into their new home. We have a cardboard box around their brooder to keep them confined until they get a little bit bigger. Hope they like it!

New home

Here is a pic of the chicks new brooder right after Dan finished constructing it (it's upside down in the pic). One socket has a regular heat lamp in it and the other has an infared bulb. We placed it in the coop and are waiting for the temp to heat up. The chicks will be moving soon!

Movin' on up

The chicks are growing like crazy! They've just about outgrown their first home (aka... a large cardboard box in our basement).

This weekend, we need to move them out to the coop, but we need to do some work first. Dan's going to building a brooder box that will hover about 8 inches off the ground with 2 light bulbs under it. If the chicks are cold, they can go under it, if they're hot they can step out for some fresh air.

We're looking forward to moving them to their permanent home. Will post pics of their new home.

Egg count

35 eggs for the week.

Down to 31...

This morning when Dan went to check on the chicks he found Chicken Little dead. Sigh. Hopefully at least he didn't suffer any longer than necessary. It's so sad... he was such a cute little fella... we were hoping he'd pull through.

On a good note... the 31 remaining chicks appear to be in great health. We've learned that in the chick world, apparently only the strong do survive.

Chicken Little

We've moved our chicks to a larger box and have had to replace their 'baby' feeder with a much larger feeder. The chicks are growing at lightning speeds. However, one chick isn't growing. He's almost the same size as when he arrived almost two weeks ago. We've affectionately named him Chicken Little. We thought perhaps the other chicks aren't letting him eat, so Dan put a smaller box inside their big box and put Chicken Little in it with his own food and water. He seems to breath very heavy and is almost dazed. He's also had a pretty bad bout of pasty butt. I check on him a few times a day and clean his behind and dip his beak in his water and food so he knows it's there. I've also been giving him yogurt in case he hasn't developed enough good bacteria in his system. Hope he'll pull through so we don't have to cull him. :(