The chicks are due to arrive either Wednesday or Thursday, so this weekend we took the time to get everything prepared for their delivery. We decided on the garage rather than one of the spare rooms. We found two large salad boxes at Costco and taped those together for the pen. I was going to cut the adjoining walls, but Renae suggested that it would make a good perch (as our mock chick demonstrates). The other supplies we picked up last week from The Grange in Issaquah. While we were looking around we came across some chicks that they were selling. They had about fifty or so. In one of the cages we witnessed the dark side of chickens. There was a gang of what I presume to be young hooligan types, some street thugs perhaps, pecking mercilessly on what I initially thought was a dead chick. The chick wasn't dead but probably wished she were. Renae went and got an employee; he gingerly pulled the chick out and said that he was taking her to the "chick hospital" which I understood as a euphemism for the knackers. But wow, chickens are brutal!
At The Grange we picked up nearly everything we needed: white pine shavings, infrared bulb, feed, waterer, and feeder. Today we picked up some grit, to aid digestion, and a couple 1/2" dowels for the chicks to roost on. We need just a mason jar for the waterer and then we will be all set. We still have to come up with four names.
It looks like a nice set up, although they may be able to escape along where the dowels are inserted into the corrugated. I hope the names don't need to be Moe, Larry, Curly, Manny, or Jack!
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