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illwf com posted by catawba converticoops at 3 22 pm no comments wednesday april 6 2011 good job silver after a short trip to my parent s house we were very excited to check on the little broody hen we had in our back yard you see we bought 6 fertile eggs from a local farmer we met at the tractor supply store here in town one of our hens silver had been broody for a few days so we set the eggs under her in the nesting box and waited to see if she would stay luckily she stayed put but the other hens kept laying more eggs which she would promptly shove under her belly too we decided to set up a separate enclosure for her to set so she would be separated from the other hens in our flock and they wouldn t push her off of the eggs or lay their eggs in with her one night after all of the girls had gone to bed we took silver and her clutch of eggs to the new nursery she stayed on those eggs faithfully for 21 days we only saw her out of the nest about once each day well i never saw her out but taylor anne said she did mike and i candled the eggs at seven and 14 days but we really couldn t see a whole lot because the shells were so darn thick we did see some veining on day seven so we knew they were at least doing something well when we got home this morning taylor anne ran straight to the little nursery pen we had set up and started screaming they hatched they re already hatched it was so exciting although we have ordered and picked up chicks in the mail and we have hatched our own using an incubator before this was so neat to see the mama silver was sitting in the nest and a couple of fuzzy little chick heads popped up through her wings to peek at us they are all different colors we have one black one tiny light yellow bantam sized one almost orange another reddish one and two that have chipmunk coloring with brown and tan stripes and spots they ll live in the nursery pen until they re old enough to go in with other chickens or we decide to sell them since it is unknown whether these six are girls or boys we ll have to just wait and see we re so excited about our newest additions posted by emily cole at 4 08 pm 2 comments labels backyard chickens brooding chicks broody hen wednesday april 21 2010 henside the beltline tour hen side the beltline tour d coop saturday may 15 2010 10am 4pm rain or shine the fifth annual tour of raleigh s urban chickens and their coops sponsored by whole foods market raleigh s city chicken owners invite you into their backyards for a first hand look at keeping chickens in an urban environment discover the variety of breeds that might be nesting in your neighborhood learn about raising chickens in a healthy neighbor friendly environment and see how families integrate chickens into their gardening practices in addition you ll be impressed by the ingenious coops that can be devised to shelter these feathered pets visit our blogsite hensidethebeltline blogspot com no surprise here chickens can make you laugh previous years tours have been huge successes with thousands of visitors enjoying the event this year s tour includes 21 returning and new coops and informational booths you do not want to miss this unique parade of combs and their homes bring the family but please leave pets at home since some flocks are not accustomed to four legged visitors being green eating local and fun too why do i keep chickens coop owners who were asked that question gave answers as varied as themselves i wanted to teach my children where food comes from i wanted to live a more sustainable life i grew up on a farm and wanted to continue some of those traditions chickens make me laugh chicken manure makes great compost gardeners parents farmers children environmentalists and people with a sense of humor all enjoy keeping chickens in an urban environment admission please bring a non perishable food or cash donation for raleigh urban ministries 100 of the food and money collected goes to urban ministries the 2009 tour collected 2342 pounds of food and raised over 5300 for urban ministries founded in 1981 urban ministries of wake county is a non profit organization that provides essential basic services to close to 20 000 families and individuals in wake county every year these services include emergency and transitional housing medical care prescription medications food assistance and other support services to promote self sufficiency and a stable home environment for those in need 94 cents of every dollar goes to services new this year the tour d coop attendees have the option of donating online through paypal prior to the tour through our website www urbanmin org chickentour maps will be available the day of the tour at steven b andreaus dds pa 1637 glenwood avenue across from the rialto theater ornamentea 509 n west street one block south of peace street cupajoe 2109 142 avent ferry road in the lower level of mission valley shopping center whole foods market 3540 wade avenue in the ridgewood shopping center seaboard ace hardware 802 semart drive across from logan s nursery when saturday may 15 2010 10 00 am to 4 00 pm where five points oakwood avent west and other raleigh neighborhoods for information about keeping chickens bob davis radavis413 msn com posted by emily cole at 4 24 pm no comments labels henside the beltline tour sunday february 1 2009 broody sometimes when you have hens especially certain kinds they can get broody this means that they would prefer to sit and incubate the eggs or golf balls in the nest instead of doing everyday scratching and foraging and running around well i think i have a broody hen she s my cream colored serama named cutie pie i ve not heard that seramas are a particularly broody type of chicken but cutie pie seems to be she was also my first chica to start laying eggs she first started acting broody several days ago but once i removed the eggs that were laid from the nest she would get up and go do normal things i have been keeping a golf ball in each nest to give the newly laying girls a hint of where to put their eggs and now she s taken to sitting on the ball even after i remove the eggs this would be a great thing if i had fertile eggs and wanted to raise some chicks but it s not such a great thing when we re not in that boat i ve heard that some hens will be so stubborn they will nearly starve themselves while sitting on the eggs waiting for them to hatch i certainly don t want that to happen i guess i m going to have to take the golf balls out of the nests now so she ll go about her days again she won t even get out so other chicas can lay their eggs she just gets squished this is my barred plymouth rock miss betty about to lay an egg which cutie pie then pushed underneath herself and sat on until i came and took it she has claimed this nest as her own i m going to remove the golf balls tomorrow posted by emily cole at 6 37 pm 1 comment labels brooding chicks broody hen seramas wednesday january 14 2009 uh seriously buy some gs cookies if you want some you can email me check out this link for varieties available posted by emily cole at 6 41 am 1 comment labels girl scouts monday january 12 2009 i m soooo excited we got our first egg today check it out i think it was laid by either my cream serama cutie pie or my barred plymouth rock miss betty if it was the cutie pie it s a good size for her first egg since she s a bantam which makes me think it may have been miss betty after all either way i m so excited posted by emily cole at 2 01 pm 3 comments labels first egg sunday october 12 2008 got chickens we do as i previously posted i was planning to get day old chicks well those plans fell through and i ended up getting some 6 week old chicks from a great guy named jay gregory he runs gregory poultry in virginia i first met him through a yahoo group called ncpoultry 2 to make the transaction we met him in winston salem while his family was there for a family trip to the dixie classic fair we drove there and met him in the morning and by the afternoon our new girls were settled in their coop we actually used the cage i had set up i had to disassemble it as the brooder to bring the birds home yes we let them ride in the cab of our truck on the way home on the ride home we got to know the girls a little better uh and smell them better too six hens in an enclosed truck don t really smell lovely just to let you know we named them all by the time we got home it was quite hard to keep the kids from sticking their fingers in the cage and we used hand sanitizer liberally on the way home here are some pictures of our new chickens we ve had them now for one week they seem to be doing really well they re used to their coop they are too old for a brooder and they know to go up the ramp at bedtime this is one of the two ameraucanas named ginger here i am holding sassy one of the two buff orpingtons anderson is holding sassy also who is saying please don t squish me this is betty a barred plymouth rock she is the largest of the six and the most friendly after a week at our house she will come running up to the front of the coop whenever you come by and she likes to be petted scarlett our rhode island red she seems to be the most timid gray whitney she s gray and buff light brown we named her after ray whitney of the carolina hurricanes this is miss priss she s a buff orpington we had originally named her miss piggy but that has changed she s very sweet and curious she s the second most friendly one besides betty the wake weekly did a final story regarding the hens in wake forest campaign i would like to give you a link to it but it s not available online right now the reporter used the picture of me above and also took one of my daughter right next to the coop it was a really nice story i hope to be able to get it on here somehow so others not in the wf area who are following the story can read it posted by emily cole at 2 40 pm 4 comments labels newspaper publicity our new chickens pullets wake weekly monday september 29 2008 setting up your brooder if you have chosen to order chicks like i did you will need to have a brooder box for them to live in until they get big enough feathered enough to go outside in your ark coop tractor whatever you have here s a picture of my brooder box it s a 19 1 2 x 32 guinea pig cage i got off of craigslist a year or so ago and i ve added some cardboard around the edges to help keep the heat in and drafts out right now i only have cardboard around half of mine because it s in a very protected spot in my house under a craft table up against a wall i may add more if it seems to be drafty but i think it s gonna be ok you may use a large cardboard box an old cooler a child s wading pool whatever has sides big enough that the little peepers won t hop or fly out of they can fly pretty quickly you may need to put bird netting over the top of whatever you have depending on how high the sides are a heat lamp is a must brand new chicks need their temp at 95 degrees the first week then each week after that dropping by increments of 5 degrees if your chicks act like it s too hot then you can adjust it don t ever stand firm to these rules watch what your chicks tell you too they sell clip on ones at the home improvement stores or you could rig it up to hang over the brooder somehow it needs to be able to be adjusted lower and higher so the chicks don t get too hot and i think it s recommended to get the red bulb because it makes it easier for the chicks to sleep and they re less likely to pick at one another too of course you ll need chick feeders and waterers there are a couple of designs out there but the main thing is to make sure you place them up on something like a brick or a board so the chicks can reach them but they don t get as much bedding and dirt in the food or water we decided to get a digital remote thermometer like the ones you can mount part of it outside transmitter and then read the indoor outdoor temps on the receiver inside if you decide not to get a thermometer you ll probably be ok the chicks will let you know if they re too cold by huddling directly below the light too hot by staying as far away from the light as possible or if there s a draft huddling to one side of the light if the chicks are peeping contentedly and moving around the brooder seemingly unaware of the temperature they re probably happy for the first couple of days you will not need to use anything but paper towels as bedding the little chick s legs can t handle the slipperiness of newspaper and if you put them in the brooder with pine shavings or other types of small bedding material they might try to eat it and get sick or die put the paper towels down load up your feeder and waterer get the heat lamp running and warm up the brooder all before you go to get your chicks from the po or wherever you want to have things ready for them when they come this is the point i m at now ready and waiting to see the cute little fluffy butts posted by emily cole at 11 16 am no comments labels brooding chicks frequently asked questions wednesday september 24 2008 in the n o north raleigh news section today wake forest approves household chickens sarah lindenfeld hall staff writer comment on this story wake forest emily cole can have her chickens the wake forest town board of commissioners last week voted 4 to 1 to let cole and any other town resident keep up to 10 hens cole spoke to the town board last month asking them to change a rule that required prospective chicken owners to get all neighbors within 500 feet to approve their plans only one family has successfully convinced their neighbors to let them have chickens cole couldn t though many neighbors had no problem with her plans a few disagreed so cole started a petition asking the town to loosen its rules she eventually gathered several hundred signatures in august town board members said they agreed that the rules needed to be changed earlier this month they considered a draft ordinance that allowed up to five chickens last week after a public hearing board members agreed to increase that number to 10 cole had originally hoped officials would allow as many as 20 i m really happy with the outcome and i m really excited that it didn t take six months to do it cole said i m also really happy that the wake forest commissioners are open minded i m excited that they realize it s a good step forward for the town across the country more urban and suburban residents are keeping chickens amid fears of the safety of the food supply and a desire to buy local products until now only the bissette family in wake forest was allowed to have chickens they were awarded a permit earlier this year after all of their neighbors agreed to their plans neighbors and families at holding park across the street often stop by to see their hens the new rules mean that the bissettes no longer have to get their permit renewed each year dave bissette said he wasn t concer...