Introduce the chicks to their water source by dipping their beaks into the water. As soon as one chick learns where to find water, the others will see the chick drinking and will learn, too. Water is essential because it helps to regulate body temperature, and broiler chickens will not eat if they do not have access to water.
As the chicks grow, reduce the brooder temperature by 5 degrees F each week until the chicks are ready to move out of the brooder. To keep everyone happy, follow some common-sense small-scale poultry-keeping ideas: Follow your zoning regulations to a T. This includes the number of adult male chickens in your flock and the distance between your chickens and your property line.
Keep the chicken manure cleaned up regularly. Calm chickens are quiet chickens—particularly meat birds. Talk to your neighbors ahead of time. Let them know your intention for keeping chickens and what they can expect in terms of noise and odor levels. Considering all it takes to raise meat chickens in your backyard, if you think you are ready to enroll in Chickens , visit with others who have done the same.
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Fortunately, the kids are grown so no worries of "pet claiming"! However, I had to stop myself from wanting them as pets, which I have successfully done! Now it's 12 to the freezer each 6 months and no more claiming them. Now if I can stop keeping those cuties out of the incubator meant for selling I would be great!
Love your stories! May 15, at AM. Dawn said…. I have a feeling it would be me who was the "claimer", I tend to do that with anything small and cute. I really wanted to try meat chickens, thought it would be good because then they're only around for a few months, not year-round, etc. Saw this post on the You're the Star Blog Hop. May 20, at AM. We're at a point where we might be hatching our own for sales, but that will be after the kids move out on their own. As for the cute and cuddly chicks, these days we only name them if they really stand out from the flock.
Some event or very unique coloring, for example. With luck, this should work:. May 23, at AM. Unknown said…. I was supposed to have a leghorn pullet that came from Tractor supply but she turned out to be a broiler. We love her very much and her name is 'I say, I say' after one of Foghorn's lines.
Thank you for giving me some hope that we can keep her. She is active and gets along fairly well with the rest of our flock. June 11, at AM. Hi: We've learned it has to do with the breed, really. Most broilers are 'engineered' to be heavy and meaty, and this makes them have a tough quality of life later one when they mature. They are unable to walk and suffer from easily broken bones- Sound like your might be related to ours: Best wishes!
June 30, at PM. See post number 7 at the following link. She lived with our buff orpington flock and even started laying eggs. It's up to you what you decide to do. Sep 6, 18, 4, Corydon, Indiana.
Katie, How awful, and I'm sorry to say that this is a cruel world for chickens. Do you think it would help if you got a few more normal chickens egglayers , it might be easier to accept their deaths if you have a flock of them. I have at least 2 of every pet because I know I would dwell over one's death, and having 2 helps me not dwell on a death.
You can't change what's already happened, try to accept that, and go on from here, and spoil them rotten. Mar 12, 2, 6 Alfordsville, IN. I had a Cornish Rock named Glory who lived to the ripe old age of 18 months. She was witnessed falling out of a Tyson Chicken truck traveling 60 mph down Hwy. A vet stitched her up torn skin under one wing and she healed well. She was healthy and sweet because she was kept thinish until she finally died of egg peritonitis yep, these chickens DO lay There is some hope The longest we've kept them going was 26 weeks and they were the size of a small turkey when we just felt too sorry for them that they couldn't walk well.
Haviris Songster 12 Years. Sep 4, 1, 4 I've had lots of Tyson chickens and they would normally live a few years, I'd say , as long as preditors don't get them. Just take good care of them and do the best you can, if they do die you know you did what you could for them. Most of ours have fallen from the backs of trucks, you see alot dead on the road, but occationally some survive. Yesterday my sister brought me a new baby, they were giving them away as prizes at the Fall Festival she went to, they didn't play, but a kid that had one just came up and gave it to her.
I don't really think it's a good idea, they are just tiny babies and most those kids probably aren't going to know how to take care of them. They had them in little plastic containers that I think they normally sell flowers in. Either way he's here now and hopefully will have a nice long life and hopefully is a she. Oct 8, 44 2 22 Richmond, Virginia.
Haviris, thank you for your encouraging post. I'm a lot less emotional today and I'm leaning toward keeping them and keeping them happy for as lons as I can. We'll build a chicken coop soon so they will have a place to live when they get bigger and more independant. Right now they are in a large tupperwar box and maybe they'll live in the tub until the house is built. We're going to run power to it, too. Last night we ordered show chickens online so we'll get those soon.
I hate factory farms and I don't eat meat so this will be my part to help the system 8 chickens at a time. Hemstead, that is good that you raise meat chicks, too. I will try to keep them thin. If they are lame maybe the vet has a shot for them like cats and dogs.
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