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Aren’t they CUTE!!!!?
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Baby Chick Car Seat
The Baby Chicken Hospital Nursery
Twenty of the red chicks are going home with me.
Baby Chicken Hospital
Western Slope Ag Center, Olathe, Colorado
The Nursery is Ready and Waiting
I am very excited! The new baby chicks come today! I have their nursery ready and waiting. Nurseries for baby birds are called ‘brooders’.
Brooders need to be sanitary, water-proof and draft proof and easy to clean. The heat lamp needs to be red, to cut down on the chicks from pecking on each other.
A thermometer is placed in the brooder, under the lamp, to check for heat-95degrees the first week, and then reduced by 5 degrees per week after that.
New Corn
The corn is growing! A corn plant will fully expand about every three days during early stages of growth. As the days get warmer then growth accelerates to two days. Two leaves appear about the same time, creating a collar effect.
We now have acres of corn, rowing out!
Pheasant Damage
The pheasants LOVE to eat corn seed. They scratch up the growing seed and have a feast.
Something must have frightened the pheasant off, for it forgot to eat this seed.
Baby Alfalfa
The tiny little seeds are growing and doing well! By this time next year the plants will look like they have been growing there forever.
Great Saddness
I am so sad! My last chicken was attacked and killed by another skunk! What a horrible ending to a really nice chicken!
We have sat traps and sent three skunks, so far, to skunk heaven, I hope that is all.
We have to get rid of these predators as the new babies are coming Friday!
Sadly Many People Just Don’t Respect the Environment!
Well, if you never get here, the following photos will let you see the great little canyon, called Fat Man’s Misery, about 5 miles from our farm.
Life on a Colorado Farm 