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Post by dawg53 on Sept 19, 2018 6:56:31 GMT -5
The post office called at 6am and said my chicks had arrived. I was there in 5 minutes, literally. They are healthy and cute. I dipped their beaks in poultry nutri drench water twice and sprinkled feed in front of the feeder and that was it, they started eating and drinking on their own! Phew, less work for me lol.   |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 19, 2018 10:21:14 GMT -5
CONGRATS!!!!!! You are ahead of the game. Maybe I missed you saying but are they Light Brahmas? How did you decide on Brahmas? I'll bet they're big chicks!
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 19, 2018 16:28:55 GMT -5
CONGRATS!!!!!! You are ahead of the game. Maybe I missed you saying but are they Light Brahmas? How did you decide on Brahmas? I'll bet they're big chicks! Yes, they are Light Brahmas. Sharon fell in love with the one Light Brahma when I ordered the Brat Pack back in March or April. She kept bugging me to get a few more lol. They are tiny 3 day old chicks now, but will eventually be big hens.  |
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Post by Sylie on Sept 19, 2018 21:11:54 GMT -5
awwww loook at the beautiful fluff balls!
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 20, 2018 4:54:49 GMT -5
They truly are fluff balls Sylie. I couldnt believe how quick they took to eating the crumbles out of the feeder and drinking from the waterer so quickly! A really nice surprise.
You shouldve seen them last night when they went to sleep. They looked like tiny dark colored golf balls just laying there, "fluff balls" like you said lol.
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 20, 2018 11:58:26 GMT -5
It will be fun to see them grow!
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Post by maryellen on Sept 20, 2018 19:51:40 GMT -5
Omg sooo cute!!
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Post by Sylie on Sept 20, 2018 20:56:28 GMT -5
hehe I love light brahmas except for one thing, the dang feathered feet/legs I had those 2 rooster d'Uccle's this past spring with the feathered feet and it reinforced my hatred of the feature. If only you could get a chicken that looks exactly like a light brahma but with clean legs, I'd be all over it. Anyway! your sweet babies are adorable and I'm sure they will be a lot of fun for you |
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 21, 2018 12:03:31 GMT -5
I wonder if you can just trim the very bottom feathers off the ground?
I tried that once and some of them bled. Blood Stop powder stopped the bleeding, lesson learned. They can collect dirt balls too. I had to soak the feet/legs in warm water to loosen them up. I wonder if CQ ever had that happen with her Light Brahmas.
I'm not worried about honestly, now that the will be on sand.
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 21, 2018 18:10:54 GMT -5
hehe I love light brahmas except for one thing, the dang feathered feet/legs I had those 2 rooster d'Uccle's this past spring with the feathered feet and it reinforced my hatred of the feature. If only you could get a chicken that looks exactly like a light brahma but with clean legs, I'd be all over it. Anyway! your sweet babies are adorable and I'm sure they will be a lot of fun for you I think Columbian Wyandottes look like Light Brahmas but dont have feathered legs/feet. I'm not familiar with Wyandottes, never owned any. |
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Post by Sylie on Sept 21, 2018 21:43:49 GMT -5
ooooo!! They do look like Light brahmas! ooooo!!!! Now I must have some!! (damn chicken math!)
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Post by seminolewind on Sept 23, 2018 11:56:33 GMT -5
I'm surprised that Dawg has caught some chicken math as well!
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Post by dawg53 on Sept 30, 2018 19:37:51 GMT -5
The Light Brahma chicks are growing nicely.  |
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Post by seminolewind on Oct 1, 2018 10:52:35 GMT -5
What little sweeties. The light ones get a beautiful color.
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Post by maryellen on Oct 1, 2018 13:10:52 GMT -5
Wow i thought they would be the white color lol. Those chicks are pretty!
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Post by dawg53 on Nov 1, 2018 4:53:36 GMT -5
I have a problem with the new Light Brahma chicks not going inside their coop for the night. They are 7 weeks old. They sit at the pop door entrance at dark and wont go inside the coop to roost even though I have a 25 watt red light "on" inside the the coop. I use the red light to simulate the red heat lamp "color" when they were in the brooder to attract them toward the light which has always worked getting chicks inside the coop...but not with these rascals.
I had no problem with the chicks in the Brat Pack going inside their coop at night with the red light on, even though it took a while for them to perch on the roost bar.
I have to physically use my hand to push them inside the pop door, then close it. I know eventually they'll learn to roost on their own, and I've been putting them up on the roost bar anyway, then shutting the red light off. If I dont shut the light off real quick, they'll hop down off the roost bar and sleep in the pine shavings the rest of the night.
Any suggestions how to get them to go inside their coop without them sleeping at the pop door entrance?
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Post by maryellen on Nov 1, 2018 7:36:05 GMT -5
When i had the brahmas at that age they wouldnt go in either... i had to manually pick them up every night and put them in their baby coop. ( they were sold a few weeks later).
They would huddle under the coop and id have to crawl.under to get them. I dont know if it was from where they came from or if they just werent that smart.
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Post by seminolewind on Nov 1, 2018 11:54:03 GMT -5
I hang the heat lamp on a horizontal pole across the roof and the lamp hanging facing in thru a wire door. The chicks are inside. This way they can move away from the heat if they feel like it. And it's easy to wean them that way. The pole either sits across the roof and the lamp hangs down angled in to the door, or I stand the pole at an angle with the lamp clamped to it. It's easier laying on the roof and moving it back and forth. I used to put a small low box of shavings near the warmest part that they all decided to sleep in. At some point no one used the box anymore and some jumped up on the roost and eventually they all did. I never had to help them just put them in the coop and shut the door.
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Post by dawg53 on Nov 1, 2018 14:32:00 GMT -5
Karen, I'm doing exactly what you stated except it's not a heat lamp bulb. It's a small red light bulb that gives off very little heat if any heat at all. It attracts them up the ramp to the pop door. The chicks are feathered out and there's shavings inside the coop also. I guess I'll keep shoving them in the coop until they get the hang of it to go night night inside the coop themselves.
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Post by seminolewind on Nov 2, 2018 10:41:56 GMT -5
Hopefully if you can get just one to go in the rest will decide they want in too.
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