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| So my spring fever set it yesterday. Went to buy dog/cat food at TSC yesterday. Came home with 6 little batam chicks. Ha ha, I planned on ordering some, americuanas and reds also. But they were just too cute to pass up since I planned on buying some anyways. =) anyone else have chickens, and not for their kids easter presents? LOL I'd love to see pictures of your batams if you have any. I have one silkie in the bunch that I can tell ( black beak tip right? ) but the rest, I'm unsure of what breed they'll be.
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Location: up to my waist in you know what | I just like you got suckered into a few baby bantams too. Lol. We were wanting a few more chicks to go with our 6 laying hens and of course they were to cute to pass up at TSC. We got 2 yellows and 4 blacks, they are about 9 weeks old now. I love their little "chaps", sooo cute!!! These are our first bantams, we already have 2 adult reds, 3 whites and a black giant. I would post pics but I can never do it from my phone.
ETA I think I finally outsmarted my phone! Yay me! Sorry it's not the best pic.
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| awes! they're soooo cute! Mine are hungry little boogers. They cant be more than a week or two old I don't think. They're the tiniest things though! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I work at a TSC-owned company so I'm kind of over the chicks  We've had them since end of February, and our last shipment is April 22nd I believe.
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | We just got two little Turkey. Does that count? We're also incubating eggs from our hens. But we're at about day 23... So I'm a little nervous they aren't going to hatch. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I love my hens they are like dogs always following us around seeing what we are doing, and I REALLY like them they kill bad snakes.  |
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| So...i go into tsc with daddy to get more t posts cause I took him out to eat and we were right there anyways... I come out with 10 more chicks. Lol I'm so bad!!! |
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Location: Montana | I wish I could have some! But I live in town. My friend got four chicks this spring, though. I think they are silver and black wyandottes, but not sure. |
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| mtcanchazer - 2015-04-16 9:21 PM I wish I could have some! But I live in town. My friend got four chicks this spring, though. I think they are silver and black wyandottes, but not sure.
I now have. 6 bantams mixed. 4 fluffy yellow ones( big white ones forget their names) 3 pullets of the rode island red variety and 3 specialty chickens that will be black but I forget their names too. Dunno where my list is of their names. Lol once I get my 4 Americanas I'll be done |
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Location: SE Louisiana | ~BINGO~ - 2015-04-04 12:33 PM We just got two little Turkey. Does that count? We're also incubating eggs from our hens. But we're at about day 23... So I'm a little nervous they aren't going to hatch.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | komet. - 2015-04-16 9:56 PM ~BINGO~ - 2015-04-04 12:33 PM We just got two little Turkey. Does that count? We're also incubating eggs from our hens. But we're at about day 23... So I'm a little nervous they aren't going to hatch. You DO have a rooster right? Those are required...
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Location: CA | We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them!
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them!
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Location: CA | Southtxponygirl - 2015-04-16 8:13 PM
Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them!
Now these are so fliping cute
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:18 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-04-16 8:13 PM Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them! Now these are so fliping cute Thank you! That's Lupita, Margarita, Taquito, and Pearl!
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Location: Arkansas | Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM
We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them!
I don't want chickens----but I want THOSE chickens!!! Adorable and color coordinated to boot |
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| Chandler's Mom - 2015-04-16 11:57 PM Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them! I don't want chickens----but I want THOSE chickens!!! Adorable and color coordinated to boot
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Location: Central Texas | Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them!
I want a Frizzle!!! But I can't find any around me. So far I have Swedish Flower, Salmon Favarolle and Ameracauna's. Unfortunately I had an issue with some racoons and I lost all my Rhode Island Reds and Sussex chickens.
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| GraciousLegacy - 2015-04-17 8:16 AM Grunt - 2015-04-16 10:06 PM We brought home 4 from a breeder yesterday. A Silkie, a Sizzle, a smooth Sizzle, and a Frizzle. They're so cute and our first chickens. We're having fun with them! I want a Frizzle!!! But I can't find any around me. So far I have Swedish Flower, Salmon Favarolle and Ameracauna's. Unfortunately I had an issue with some racoons and I lost all my Rhode Island Reds and Sussex chickens.
We are in the process of building a new coop that will be the equivalent of Fort Knox....I want to name it Fowlcatraz.
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | You guys are so lucky to be able to have them....i would love to have some geese and ducks and chickens......but it would have the yard full of wolves and coyote so fast.....M |
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| mruggles - 2015-04-17 8:43 AM You guys are so lucky to be able to have them....i would love to have some geese and ducks and chickens......but it would have the yard full of wolves and coyote so fast.....M
I imagine we will have coyotes... lol dad doesn't know yet. But I'm going to be getting a peraneese( sp? ) pup. Also, a goat. I'm redoing a dog pen for when they're old enough to go outside. wrapping it in chicken wire, covering the top witha weather top, building high perch posts and nesting boxes for the top all the way around.
I was told goats are good with chickens because not much will mess with them. I was also told if you put crushed red pepper around the perimeter of the coops it keeps snakes,rats, possums and coyotes out. The snakes dont like it on their skin, and the rest have sensitive noses. |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2015-04-17 9:16 AM My daughters chick
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| Picked up 2 more duckling yesterday so that makes 6 ducklings and of course I have the one fully grown. Got 6 chicks yesterday too but they all died last night .. :-( I knew we needed a heat lamp but the gal at tsc told me they'd be just fine with lots of bedding. I'm not doing chickens again.. my ducks look to be doing great ... |
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| want2chase3 - 2015-04-17 9:34 AM Picked up 2 more duckling yesterday so that makes 6 ducklings and of course I have the one fully grown. Got 6 chicks yesterday too but they all died last night .. :-( I knew we needed a heat lamp but the gal at tsc told me they'd be just fine with lots of bedding. I'm not doing chickens again.. my ducks look to be doing great ...
Yea heat lamp is a must. Or a heating pad covered with towl. They don't produce enough body heat to live without one. I love my chicks. LOL but they'll be staying inside until completely feather... boy they stink. LOL I sleep with my windows wide open, and my door with the screen closed!!
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| americanpride08 - 2015-04-17 9:49 AM
want2chase3 - 2015-04-17 9:34 AM Picked up 2 more duckling yesterday so that makes 6 ducklings and of course I have the one fully grown. Got 6 chicks yesterday too but they all died last night .. :-( I knew we needed a heat lamp but the gal at tsc told me they'd be just fine with lots of bedding. I'm not doing chickens again.. my ducks look to be doing great ...
Yea heat lamp is a must. Or a heating pad covered with towl. They don't produce enough body heat to live without one. I love my chicks. LOL but they'll be staying inside until completely feather... boy they stink. LOL I sleep with my windows wide open, and my door with the screen closed!!
And I clean their box every two days, plus change it once a week. Little boogers are spoiled rotten.
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| Ahhhh cute lil guys ... My first banties were black rosecombs - They were gorgeous and I showed them for years. We raised chicks out of them as well as Mom's Rhode Island Reds. I can't wait to get our hutch built so I can get some now! |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Southtxponygirl - 2015-04-16 8:05 PM komet. - 2015-04-16 9:56 PM ~BINGO~ - 2015-04-04 12:33 PM We just got two little Turkey. Does that count? We're also incubating eggs from our hens. But we're at about day 23... So I'm a little nervous they aren't going to hatch. You DO have a rooster right? Those are required...
So, is that my problem? I needed a Rooster???
...................................................Just playing. YES, I have a Roo. A big, mean Buff Orphington who chases our daughter and eats the dogs food as they (mastiffs) watch from a safe distance. We ended up hatching 3 babies. One was never "right" and passed. But the other two are fat and fluffy. Day 6 into a second incubation. Crossed fingers for a better hatch rate. LOVE little baby chicks. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | ~BINGO~ - 2015-04-17 10:26 AM Southtxponygirl - 2015-04-16 8:05 PM komet. - 2015-04-16 9:56 PM ~BINGO~ - 2015-04-04 12:33 PM We just got two little Turkey. Does that count? We're also incubating eggs from our hens. But we're at about day 23... So I'm a little nervous they aren't going to hatch. You DO have a rooster right? Those are required...
...................................................Just playing. YES, I have a Roo. A big, mean Buff Orphington who chases our daughter and eats the dogs food as they (mastiffs) watch from a safe distance. We ended up hatching 3 babies. One was never "right" and passed. But the other two are fat and fluffy. Day 6 into a second incubation. Crossed fingers for a better hatch rate. LOVE little baby chicks.
LOL, love  and its always fun when we can joke around with it other.
Boy that Rooster must be one heck of a bada** to take over the dogs food. But then again my hens rule the roost out here too, all the cats and dogs give them space and let them have their food if the Hens like. I have no rooster for that reason of being mean when it comes to kido's.
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| cavyrunsbarrels - 2015-04-17 5:56 PM Ugh I'm in TSC just about every other day and those gosh darn babies are so cute. I live in an apartment though so...bad idea. BUT after the house gets built I want some Guinea Fowl!
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| livexlovexrodeo - 2015-04-17 10:56 PM I made it almost all the way through Chick Days without any chicks and then I brought home 4 black australorps and 2 rhode island reds last week. Oops! Our last shipment is the 22nd so the temptation will be gone after that haha
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Location: Red Raiderland | mruggles - 2015-04-17 8:43 AM You guys are so lucky to be able to have them....i would love to have some geese and ducks and chickens......but it would have the yard full of wolves and coyote so fast.....M
We would have the same problem except for no wolves but we would have the racoons going bonkers over them. I still want to build a "Fort Knox"(TM-GraciousLegacy) coop and see how it goes. Heck, I have to worry that my kitties don't go too far from the barn/shop, it's WILD out here!
I would love ducks for our tank but that would truly end in disaster. The coyotes are sooo thick this year. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Kaycee - 2015-04-17 10:18 PM mruggles - 2015-04-17 8:43 AM You guys are so lucky to be able to have them....i would love to have some geese and ducks and chickens......but it would have the yard full of wolves and coyote so fast.....M We would have the same problem except for no wolves but we would have the racoons going bonkers over them. I still want to build a "Fort Knox"(TM-GraciousLegacy) coop and see how it goes. Heck, I have to worry that my kitties don't go too far from the barn/shop, it's WILD out here!
I would love ducks for our tank but that would truly end in disaster. The coyotes are sooo thick this year.
We have coons, coyotes, foxes, eagles and a lot of hawks and so far in the 4yrs we have had chickens, we haven't lost one to a wild critter. Mostly the horse water tank. If it isn't tip top full they fall in getting a drink. They always have water in their coop too :( We also religiously lock them up every night right at dark and if we are going to be gone, they can only go from the coop to their chicken wire pen. It also has a wire roof. |
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Location: Montana | americanpride08 - 2015-04-17 8:20 AM hoofs_in_motion - 2015-04-17 9:16 AM My daughters chick OMGOSH!!!! did ya'll dye it!?
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | mtcanchazer - 2015-04-18 11:26 AM americanpride08 - 2015-04-17 8:20 AM hoofs_in_motion - 2015-04-17 9:16 AM My daughters chick OMGOSH!!!! did ya'll dye it!?
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| Grr I have this awesome video of my chickens where I caught one of those annoying may fly bugs that look like mosiquitoes that keep getting into the house... LOL they go into a little feeding frenzy. Little fluff balls love them! |
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| Ive been soooo good this year. Until Saturday. Went to the local chicken sale and bought 2 production red hens that are laying and 8 silver laced Wyandotte chicks. Then went to TSC yesterday and they had specialty lakenvelders. There were only 3 left and they twisted my arm to buy 3 brahmas so I met the minimum number. I lost 1 of the wyandottes last night. But the other 13 are doing great. Hopefully their not all roo's!!!!!! I love chickens. Before we moved we had around 30 ducks and chickens. My heelers are leaving them alone too! |
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| Jazz's Girl - 2015-04-20 10:55 AM Ive been soooo good this year. Until Saturday. Went to the local chicken sale and bought 2 production red hens that are laying and 8 silver laced Wyandotte chicks. Then went to TSC yesterday and they had specialty lakenvelders. There were only 3 left and they twisted my arm to buy 3 brahmas so I met the minimum number. I lost 1 of the wyandottes last night. But the other 13 are doing great. Hopefully their not all roo's!!!!!! I love chickens. Before we moved we had around 30 ducks and chickens. My heelers are leaving them alone too!
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| Just wanted to post some videos. I meant to post the one a while back, but of course got super busy and spaced. The first video is three weeks ago! The second one is from today. Finished the coop last week. It's alittle redneck, but it'll work. Going to put some next boxes and roosting perches in it eventually. For now they have a 'roosting pallet' LOL
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Awww they are so darn cute, I love how they love to run and play. I have 5 hens and they are something else and egg laying fools... |
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| Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-10 7:24 PM Awww they are so darn cute, I love how they love to run and play. I have 5 hens and they are something else and egg laying fools...
I finally can tell what my baneys are. I have two roosters and 4 hens. They're inquisitive little things. LOL and BOOOOLD. I have a feeling the little things may have 'little man' complex... and I've heard they can be little terds if they're aggressive. So far mine are just watchers. Though if I turn my back to them they run up following my footsteps lol |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | americanpride08 - 2015-05-10 7:25 PM Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-10 7:24 PM Awww they are so darn cute, I love how they love to run and play. I have 5 hens and they are something else and egg laying fools... I finally can tell what my baneys are. I have two roosters and 4 hens. They're inquisitive little things. LOL and BOOOOLD. I have a feeling the little things may have 'little man' complex... and I've heard they can be little terds if they're aggressive. So far mine are just watchers. Though if I turn my back to them they run up following my footsteps lol
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Our first incubating session ended up with a bad hatch rate. Only three hatched, two survived. Second time around we hatched out 13 healthy little fuzz balls. It was such a neat experience. Trying to attach pics... But my phone is apparently MUCH smarter than I am.. |
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