Things are quiet here today.  Dh has gone fishing.  I hope he catches a nice mess of White Perch.  I spent a good deal of time this morning with the chicks.  I scooped out all of the shavings from the coop that the older chicks are in and replaced it with fresh shavings.  And I gave them fresh water and feed.  I'm not happy about 2 of the poor things.  I don't know what's wrong with them.  They spend most of their time laying down and when they do run it seems like somethings wrong with their legs but I can't see anything unusual.  If anyone has had experience with this and has any advice please let me know.   I took them out of the coop today and put them together in an ice chest set up with the things they need.  

 The chicks that came in yesterday seemed to have made it just fine through the night.  They seemed to  have arrived perkier than the last shipment and I'm pretty sure I know why.   It's the difference in the distances they had to travel to get here.   A friend had ordered the last batch of Ameraucana chicks and we split the order.  But they ordered from a company in Iowa.  We ordered  these from a company in Texas.  We had a good number die from the first batch and the company had to replace them and now there are 2 sickly acting.  

There was one already dead when these came yesterday from Texas unfortunately.  But obviously the first order of chicks had a much longer journey from Iowa than these did from Texas to us here in Mississippi. So I think it's more humane really.

I've put fresh paper towels down for them this morning and gave them fresh sugar water and more food.  Here's some pictures of the newbies.  They are Rhode Island Reds, Rhode Island Whites and New Hampshire Reds.

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March 29, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by haflinger

Gee I don't know on the chicks how do there eyes look? Are they getting enough water? They look good.
Blessings Sister Brenda

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March 29, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Kitty

I wish I had time to raise some more chicks. But alas, not this year...........too cute tho........Kitty

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