Sunday, May 12, 2013

Chick Practice

My chicks in the brooder have served their purpose.  It is now time for me to give them to my neighbor.  They were good practice and I must rehome them soon before I come too attached to them, I really like the yellow one.  But there is that unknown factor of boy or girl. :)  I sexed them by watching the Dirty Jobs Part One Video with Mike Rowe.  There is a part one and part two on You Tube.  I highly recommend watching them, it was very fun and informative and filmed at Murray McMurray where I ordered my chicks from.  I'm fairly sure that there is three girls and one boy.  My neighbor wants a rooster so we will let him have them.  We have the heat right, put more wire over the side where they could stick their heads out.  Yep, that was a quick fix, I looked over and saw a head out and a dog and cat watching so cut a piece of construction screen to put in front of the chicken wire.  I pictured finding a headless chick pulled as far through the wire as it could get so fixed it ASAP.   A couple of pics of them in the brooder.  The first day they slept mostly but the second they wandered around much more.
I will give them to my neighbor this afternoon and sanitize everything for the next batch due in two weeks.

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