Baby Chicks

Yep! We bought more chickens today. A Black Copper Maran and an Easter Egger. We are going to get and Olive Egger in a couple weeks. 

They are so cute! Rooben is very curious about them. He keeps watching them and laying by them. 

Lydia and Tyler were so excited when they got home from school today! 

Here is the blog post about our First Chicks

Things to know before buying chicks:

🐥 They will need a brooder to live in. Preferably in your house, so they can stay warm.

🐥 They need to be kept at 95° Fahrenheit

🐥 They can go outside when the temperatures are 55° or above. You will need to slowly expose them to these temperatures (in and out) so they can acclimate to the new climate change (kind of like you would with plants you’ve started inside).

🐥 They are noisy, but so cute!

🐥 They can get pasty butt. This is when their poop gets stuck and dries on their little bums! Then their poop has no where to go and stays inside them. If this happens and you don’t take care of it, they can die. We had one of our chicks before have this happen. We used warm water and soaked off the dry stuff. Then we dried them with a towel and put them back in the brooder. We caught it in time, and she was fine.

🐥 Heat lamps work great, but if you’re worried about them (they aren’t the safest. Even though so far we haven’t had problems 🤞🏻 🙏🏻) there are alternatives that you can use. 

Here is a website about Safe Alternatives to Heat Lamps