Well "the girls" are getting bigger and this is such a really cool process

Here is their new brooder, the first one was great for the first two weeks, they needed more room!

Your birds are looking good! 

I think mine are at about the same stage, ugly duckling teenager stage.  Their feathers are coming in, they are starting to fly a bit.

Question about the ball bearing water'r - Do they actually get water from it?   I got one yesterday and they were pecking at it, but the water level hasn't gone down all that much.  When I had water in an upside down jar with a little trough, the water seemed to go much faster.  I can't tell if it was from evaporation or they were just drinking more water.  I am debating weather or not to take the other waterer out so they learn to use the drip waterer. 

I will have to get some pictures up, and start on the coop this weekend.  They are starting to roost on the top of the big bin...

I can't wait to see your pictures!  

They totally drink the water from the ball bearing water, we have two and now the one that is positioned slightly higher is the one that they drink out of the most. They do drink out of both. The other water container was just a mess, this keeps things cleaner and they are really drinking and they like to peck at it...it's what chickens do  

For two days, I mixed a little gravel and their food in a separate plate and now I have been hanging greens in their brooder and I sprinkle a little greens around on the floor of their brooder. They totally snack on the greens  I have been counting the weeks till I could give them treats!

I think one of my Delaware's is a cockerel, I have ordered 5 more hens, they should hatch on Monday. I am having so much fun! This time I picked out a couple to specifically be pets.

We are working on our coop this weekend too!

Post your pictures!  

Did you decide to keep all 9?

The poults (turkeys) arrived today.

16 2 day olds...

and 7 weekish olds.

The older birds came from the grain store as leftovers.

We got them for $5

Pics to follow.

Very cool, what type of Turkeys?

I've had trouble with turkeys. They have that whole kamikaze thing down to a fine art.

I'm beginning to think some sort of Avian Flu is spreading through the DMF.  Hope I don't catch it.

Quote from: Polpetta on June 04, 2010, 06:05:45 PM
Very cool, what type of Turkeys?

All but 2 are broad breasted bronze...

Two are white...not sure exactly what they are

Quote from: ducpainter on June 05, 2010, 04:03:09 AM
All but 2 are broad breasted bronze...

Two are white...not sure exactly what they are

They are DIMBY dinner plate specials.

Quote from: lethe on June 05, 2010, 04:05:37 AM
They are DIMBY dinner plate specials.

They could be, but they belong to someone else.

This is a cooperative effort.

23 Turkeys will eat a lot of food come October.

I used to raise 20 every year and at the end they'll eat 150lbs of grain a week.

Grain back then was $6ish for 50lbs.

It's $14 something now.

Quote from: howie on June 04, 2010, 07:45:39 PM
I'm beginning to think some sort of Avian Flu is spreading through the DMF.  Hope I don't catch it.

I've got two birds for you.  Seriously.  9 is too many for me, and I would love to keep 4, give my mother 3 and you can have 2!

Im in NJ, so they aren't all that far away...   [moto]

This is the coop...


This is their brooder



They'll fill the 'porch' when they're grown.

Lunch Break.

Building the coop today!



more pics to come later...

This is one of the best threads ever IMO.  Amazing how many chickeners are on the dmf.


mitt

Quote from: mitt on June 08, 2010, 08:42:34 AM
This is one of the best threads ever IMO.  Amazing how many chickeners are on the dmf.


mitt

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