I’m so excited! I ordered some new chicks, they will be coming in the mail in 8 days. I’ll be getting 20 Brown Leghorns 20 White Jersey Giants and 5 white Plymouth Rocks. The leghorn is a white egg layer, which will be nice to have and they’re a beautiful bird. The Jerseys and Rocks are for making my new meat birds.
I also separated a breeding group of my Partridge Rocks to bring up the number of brown egg layers, I only have 5 hens, I’m going for more like 30!
In the chick shed, I have duck and turkey eggs in the incubator right now. I wasn’t getting a very good hatch rate with the turkeys and the ducks, they’re a little more fragile then the chickens, so I cleaned up the the incubator and I’m monitoring the temperature and humidity. They will be hatching around the time my chicks come in the mail and then they all go in the brooder box.
My brooder box (in it’s previous life) was a light fixture in the neighbor’s kitchen, it works out great, I just need to fix up a better top for it so they stop escaping.
When they don’t need the heat lamp anymore, they go into a new pen to prepare them to go out.
This is out……….I built this little chicken tractor my self and I just pull it and its cousins around so the chicks can eat all the fresh greens they want, so I can eat all the fresh chicken I want!
This is were I keep track of all the peeps, cheeps, chirps and the ins, outs, ups, and downs of my poultry operation! By next spring everything should be running at full speed.
EBet the Poultry Manager.
fascinating – my venture into simply having some chickens for brown eggs has been OK – really need new blood now so hoping a nice lady will come to take my not laying now older hens and I can locate 4 or 5 hens and a nice rooster to repopulate our Coop Mahal – have realized my golden comet hens lay MUCH larger eggs than most other folks’ cluckers and I don’t know why – interested in your turkey production – would like to try some of those little turkeys like Kathy and Jim B raised last year but then I’m a wimp about killing and eating them. Thanks for the update on the poultry part of Vicktory Farm
Good luck with your new chickens, Ebet. Looks like you are all set up for them. I hope they do well for you.
Chick chick here – chick chick there – here a chick – there a chick everywhere a chick chick,,,
Great shots and post Lanny.
well ebet, do they call you a cute chick?
smiles, bee
xoxoxoxoox
Hope the new chicks all arrive fine, it sounds like you’ve got a nice little home-made set-up going for them. Our chicks can be funny to watch sometimes with their various antics they get up to, have fun with your new batch.
I want chickens so bad!! Maybe someday soon.
Nice post ebet. I’m interested in those waterers in the bottom of the 5 gal buckets. Do they work for chicken and so they leak? We did buy a nice small auto waterer that works well….except when it doesn’t and then it floods the pen.
Hey Ebet! I also wanted to know about your bucket waterer is it like a drip tube but it doesn’t drip?
You are a Poultry Farmer for sure! I loved reading your post!