I am now a chicken farmer

[madoka]

Placed an order for 15 chicks (damn efowl and their 15 chick minimum order!). They are for the eggs and not eating. I got:

5 easter eggers
5 Barred Plymouth Rock
5 Austra White

How are these breeds?

Anything special I should do when I get them, outside of giving them feed and water? I already bought their chick feed starter kit.

 

[norseamd]

talk to texas hiker

 

[Midwayman]

I would suggest you start stockpiling BBQ sauce.

 

[lupi]

Be ready to clean up a lot of poo.

 

[slag]

They will need heat lamps for warmth

 

[BoomerD]

Yer a sick bastage...

 

[JTsyo]

You'll need that chicken catcher/cager.

 

[DrPizza]

When you get them, dip every one of their heads into the waterer. Watch their butts - sometimes they get a clump of dried crap that sticks to their feathers. If you don't clean it off, they will die. Out of 100 chicks, it's usually not more than half a dozen that have this problem.

Time for me to get ready for an order of pheasants; thinking of getting 100.

 

[madoka]

When you get them, dip every one of their heads into the waterer.

What's the reason for this? To let them know where the water is?

 

[alkemyst]

What's the reason for this? To let them know where the water is?

He said "watch their butts"

scary stuff man. I just go and buy my eggs in a store.

You building Lego Chicken Coops?

 

[madoka]

In two months, they went from this:

To this:

 

[ViRGE]

In two months, they went from this:

To this:

Kids grow up so quickly these days.

 

[StoutMaster]

I have feral chickens all over my place. You go from 10 to 1000 overnight. It's amazing how fast they reproduce.

 

[Ichinisan]

You'll need that chicken catcher/cager.

Oh look! "Free range" chicken!

 

[Ichinisan]

Kids grow up so quickly these days.

Chicks mature so quickly these days. Must be the female hormones in everything.

 

[Jeff7]

You'll need that chicken catcher/cager.

Video at Liveleak.

Bright Coop E-Z Catch Chicken Harvester

 

[brianmanahan]

i would have expected you to buy a whole chicken farm!

 

[CZroe]

I have feral chickens all over my place. You go from 10 to 1000 overnight. It's amazing how fast they reproduce.

Same here. The rotten eggs are smelling up the yard. More good eggs than I'd ever need tho'

The dogs keep finding and eating them too so they perpetually smell like egg now.

 

[Iron Woode]

chickens don't lay eggs forever.

you are going to have to 'harvest' the ones that can't lay eggs any more.

that should make for an interesting pic post here.

 

[twinrider1]

My little town is working on a ban to include chickens and bees. I'm fine with regulations for them, no roosters, minimum space requirements, etc. But with the local food movement gaining strength, I think the mayor is on the wrong side of this one.

How much daily work is involved with a dozen chickens?

 

[DaTT]

I have heard that being a chicken farmer is easy money.....just a HUGE initial investment.

 

[Cappuccino]

Those little fluffy chick balls are so cute! Can I eat them?

 

[GasX]

What's the reason for this? To let them know where the water is?

Yes

Get started on your coop. The time for them to move from their brooder box to the coop will be here in no time.

The scariest thing is calculating the cost of your first egg...

 

[Kaido]

Do the chickens have large talons?

 

[brianmanahan]

Do the chickens have large talons?

i don't understand a word you just said