Well, we survived the weekend just barely. Trying to dig out the house now. Looks like a tornado hit the inside of our house. It was pointed out to me that my predator post may have implied that our new baby that died was killed by a predator. It wasn’t it just did the chicken thing and died. I had to go out the next morning and hold another one up to the water dispenser and make it drink. Took me about 15 minutes to perk up that chick. It is doing just fine now and we have only lost the one. The new babies are doing fine and running around and eating without any difficulties. Annmarie and I were talking about switching to a nipple waterer. That way the inside water will not make any messes and during the winter I can stick an immersion heater inside. No mess. Now if I only had power to the coop…
Need to build fence before I wire the chicken coop. It will be the next thing though. Our chocolate lab, Bailey thinks that any baby, no matter what kind is hers and needs to be protected. This is her watching out for our new babies.
Stewart Creek Somethings 