Tower Garden Update- 4 weeks since transplanting & Chicks!!!
I have been MIA for almost a month now- I’m sorry! I just finished producing my yearly high school musical (this year was “Little Women”) which literally takes everything out of me. Just keeping up with family life has been a struggle, so the blog had to go on the back burner. I have, however, kept up my garden and have managed to take a step further into my backyard homesteading adventure with new baby chicks!
Here are a few pictures of the only 4-5 weeks after transplanting the little seedlings. It never ceases to amaze me how fast plants grow! (.) And even though I said I’ve managed to keep up my garden…with the that pretty much entails checking once a week to make sure there’s still water in the tank.
While the Tower Garden eliminates most pests, I noticed a few aphids on one plant…then I saw this little red guy came to eat them all up!
Don’t forget, you can have a just like mine. I sell these wonderful contraptions and would love to chat with you about getting your own. Check out , or feel free to directly with questions!
And now for the chicks…
On the way home from a homeschool field trip last week, I saw a feed store and made the impulse decision to bring chicks home. (Just an incentive for my husband to make a coop!) We’ve been planning on having a small backyard coop of chickens to give us a few home raised eggs and help us compost our food trash so we don’t waste. It’s amazing how much we throw away now that we don’t have chickens when we used to be able to just guiltlessly give kitchen scraps to the chickens for recycling into fertilizer and nutritious eggs. I’m looking forward to keeping these beautiful Buff Orpingtons fat and happy with our kitchen scraps. I also can’t wait to eat some homegrown eggs again. If I’m successful at all my endeavors, I will prove to the world how even a small little yard can sustainably produce a lot of food for a family. You don’t need to live on acres of land! (I say that now, but just wait ’til I’m dying to raise goats or a milk cow again!)
I’ll keep you updated on all our backyard homesteading adventures!
Baby Chicks In The Mail in
Bartow, Florida
We have many Rare Chicken Breeds for sale in Bartow Florida,
including Sussex Chickens, Welsummer Chickens, Turken Chickens and more.
Be sure to check out the Bargain Specials, as you can combine different
egg layers in smaller amounts and buy as an assortment. Bartow
Florida also has poultry equipment for sale, game chickens for sale in
Bartow Florida, bantams for sale, ducks for sale, geese for sale,
turkeys for sale, guinea for sale, peafowl for sale, pheasant for sale,
chukar partridge for sale, bobwhite for sale, many different breeds of
baby chicks for sale in Bartow FL.
Baby Quail Chicks in
Bartow, Florida
Thumbing through a baby chickens for sale in Bartow Florida
catalog is a yearly traditions in many houses. My kids and I eagerly await
the Murray McMurray Hatchery catalog. We love looking at all the cool and
different chicken breeds available. Catalogs are free so head on over to
their site and request one if you are interested.
Typically hatcheries online offer both standard breeds
and bantams. Bantams are fun hardy little chickens, they lay tiny eggs
that kids especially love collecting. Bantams typically weigh less than 2
pounds when full grown. Just like ordering anything online there are pros
and cons to ordering baby chicks online. Pros of buying baby chicks in
Bartow Florida * Big Selection - If you are wanting a large
variety of different chicken breeds and egg colors, you will find the best
selection at an online hatchery. * Both Bantams and full sized chickens
available * You get to choose what sex you want. If you want a mixture of
both male and female then choosing a "straight run" will save you money
and you will get a mixture of male and female chicks. You can also choose
all males or all females too. * Weekly specials. Hatcheries have sales on
chicks, you are likely to get a good deal if you are flexible with the
breeds you are wanting. Cons of buying baby chicks in Bartow
Florida * Order early to get the best selection. Certain breeds sell
out fast, sometimes as early as 6 months in advance of shipping! If you
are wanting a certain breed it's best to order your chicks in the fall
before their orders sell out.
Baby Chickens Hatching in
Bartow, Florida
Quantity - you must order a certain number of chicks. Typically hatcheries
will require you buy a minimum of 25 chicks at a time. The number is
necessary for the chicks survival during shipping. All 25 chicks are put
in one small box without heat. They are crowded in the box and produce
enough body heat to arrive in good shape. * The wait - If you choose to
buy chicks from a feed store you will have them the same day but if you
choose to go with a hatchery you have to wait until they are ready to ship
and then wait for the chicks to arrive. Ordering baby chicks online in
Bartow Florida is easy and has always been a very pleasant
experience of me. It can be a little frustrating waiting for the chicks
but it's so worth the wait. When the post office calls and you hear all
those little "cheeps" or "chirps" in the background you'll know the wait
was worth it! How to Care for your new baby chickens in Bartow,
Florida Baby chicks are really
charming and also
challenging to stand up to,
but it's finest to plan for their
arrival before you obtain them. Prepare initially
by collecting not just the
correct materials, yet
likewise the correct
expertise to care for
them. Raising baby chicks is reasonably
basic, you simply should offer them with the following: A
clean as well as cozy
habitat Plenty of food and also water Focus and
love Environment Your environment can be an easy box, fish tank,
feline carrier, or guinea
porker cage. Line it with old towels and also
blankets (with no loose
strings!) to start, as well as after a
couple of weeks use straw over newspaper.
Keep in mind: Avoid utilizing only
paper or various other slipper
surface areas-- or your chicks legs can expand
malformed. You likewise need
something to serve up food and also
water in, such as a chicken feeder as well as water
dish from the feed store, or a pickle container
lid for food as well as a pet dog bird water dispenser from an animal shop. Also, as the chicks age you can introduce a perch
right into the habitat to get them
educated on perching. Heat To
keep your chicks warm you should
provide them with a warmth source.
This can be as easy as a 100 watt
light bulb in a reflective clamp style light from an equipment store, or an infrared reptile warmth
bulb additionally function very
well (my
referral). Chicks require this
warmth 24/7 up until their downy fluff is
changed with feathers (which can occupy to 2 months). The recently
hatched need a temperature level
in between 90 and 100 levels,
and each week this can
be reduced by
about 5 degrees approximately. The warmth resource should get on simply one side of the cage
to permit chicks a range of
temperature levels. The chicks are your ideal
thermostat- if they are hiding in the
opposite edge of your heat
light, you should
reduce the temperature. If
they are smothering each various other under the
warmth (not simply curling up),
you have to include some heat.
House cleaning
Tidiness is key and also it maintains your chicks healthy. Be sure to alter
the bed linen
typically and also
consistently offer tidy
food and water Food and also water.
Chicks expand quite fast
which needs a lot of tidy
food as well as water. Provide
enough in any way times and inspect
frequently to avoid parched and
hungry chicks. Chick food is different than grown-up chicken food, as well as it comes
in both medicated and
also non-medicated varieties. Feed chick food for the
very first 2 months, then
switch over to a raiser food (~ 17 %
healthy protein) for another 2 months,
then to a slightly
lower protein feed or a layer feed
(if you have layers). Dirt Some chicks prefer to get a head start on taking
filth bathrooms, while others won't use up that task up until they are
older. If you have the space in your chick
enclosure, introduce a tray of sand or
filth for them to bathe in.
Focus as well as love There are a couple of benefits to spending time with your chicks. Firstly, they will certainly most
likely bond with you and also
not run away as adults. Second, if you
examine your chicks daily as well as
see their actions, you could
catch illness or other troubles earlier. Keep an
eye out for hissing, hopping, or
other undesirable
indicators. Be sure to
additionally take a look at
their poop, as diarrhea could result in matted plumes and clogged cloaca.
Last but not least, it is important to watch out for social problems, such as the
littlest chick obtaining badgered. Empty nest syndrome So your
chicks are now totally feathered
and its time for them to leave the
safety of your residence
as well as move outside right into a cage. Check out our
section on chicken cages to read more
concerning coops and
correct cage habitats.
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