for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it?
should i put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily
even if i put it out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea
than a dish with stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather
glamorous waterers, but i don't have $70 lately

and should i put the dish (or whatever) out now, or wait until
they're born?

0tterbot wrote:
for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it?
should i put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily
even if i put it out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea
than a dish with stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather
glamorous waterers, but i don't have $70 lately :-)

blimey -- our chick drinkers are £2.55 [about 6.25 AUD]

hmm having just had a google for mail order equipment in Australia - I
wonder what the shipping charges would be? <grin
I did find http://www.wapoultryequipment.com/WAPE/Catalogue.htm who have
RB1L Drinker Plastic red base 1 Lt at $7.00

I use either a shallow terracotta dish that would normally go under a

and should i put the dish (or whatever) out now, or wait until
they're born?

Wait till they are hatched.
Mum will sit on them for at least a day after hatching and they don't need
anything for another day. When Mum brings them off the nest and starts
exploring "then" you can give her and them chicky supplies.

Can you give Mum and babies somewhere to be in peace for a few days. I
forget - are your birds protected from overhead predators anyway
Lots of birds LUV chicks for appetizers ;(


How true. We have a wedgetail eagle eyeing off my GF keets at present

All my chicks like to walk in the water when the
weather is hot so I only use rocks or pebbles in a deeper dish or the
standard automatic waterer in the yard. Be aware that adding gravel,
rocks or pebbles reduces the amount of available water overall.

I use either a shallow terracotta dish that would normally go under a
large pot plant(12"+ in diameter -$5-10 @ bunnings) or I buy a plastic one
that screws onto a 2lt soft drink bottle available from Red Dot or a pet
supplier, usually a couple of dollars. The terracotta is good as they
can't tip it over when the chicks stand on the side, even when empty and
they last many years but the other is better in hot weather as it holds
2lt reservoir and the tray is shallow enough for none to drown. All my
chicks like to walk in the water when the weather is hot so I only use
rocks or pebbles in a deeper dish or the standard automatic waterer in the
yard. Be aware that adding gravel, rocks or pebbles reduces the amount of
available water overall.

for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it? should i
put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily even if i put it
out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea than a dish with
stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather glamorous waterers, but i
don't have $70 lately

"0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote in message

for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it?
should i put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily
even if i put it out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea
than a dish with stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather
glamorous waterers, but i don't have $70 lately :-)

Check out this site Kylie, I've found them to be a good source:
http://www.bellsouth.com.au/

0tterbot wrote:

for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it?
should i put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily
even if i put it out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea
than a dish with stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather
glamorous waterers, but i don't have $70 lately :-)

blimey -- our chick drinkers are £2.55 [about 6.25 AUD]

Wait till they are hatched.
Mum will sit on them for at least a day after hatching and they don't need
anything for another day. When Mum brings them off the nest and starts
exploring "then" you can give her and them chicky supplies.

Can you give Mum and babies somewhere to be in peace for a few days. I
forget - are your birds protected from overhead predators anyway
Lots of birds LUV chicks for appetizers ;(

"Ginny" <glvl88REMOVETHIS@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message

I use either a shallow terracotta dish that would normally go under a
large pot plant(12"+ in diameter -$5-10 @ bunnings) or I buy a plastic
one that screws onto a 2lt soft drink bottle available from Red Dot or a
pet supplier, usually a couple of dollars. The terracotta is good as they
can't tip it over when the chicks stand on the side, even when empty and
they last many years but the other is better in hot weather as it holds
2lt reservoir and the tray is shallow enough for none to drown. All my
chicks like to walk in the water when the weather is hot so I only use
rocks or pebbles in a deeper dish or the standard automatic waterer in
the yard. Be aware that adding gravel, rocks or pebbles reduces the
amount of available water overall.

But this would work if Kylie used a big terracotta saucer and put an old
plastic milk carton full of water in the saucer with a hole just below the
water line and stones around the carton. As the water level drops and
exposes the hole it will dribble out and refilll the saucer.

"0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote in message

for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it? should
i put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily even if i put
it out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea than a dish with
stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather glamorous waterers, but i
don't have $70 lately :-)

Check out this site Kylie, I've found them to be a good source:
http://www.bellsouth.com.au/

FarmI wrote:
"0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote in message

for the chicks, should i set up a shallow dish with stones in it?
should i put it near their nesting box, or will it be found easily
even if i put it out of everyone's way a bit? is there a better idea
than a dish with stones? i'd like one of those noice and rather
glamorous waterers, but i don't have $70 lately :-)

Check out this site Kylie, I've found them to be a good source:
http://www.bellsouth.com.au/

I was looking for that site but it didnot come up in my google search
weird!

i'll be getting some chick mix for the babies to eat (although i rather
expect the others will get into it as well,

"0tterbot" wrote
i'll be getting some chick mix for the babies to eat (although i rather
expect the others will get into it as well,


Kylie - I have an old cage that I set up to "creep feed" baby chicks when
I have them. The bars are far enough apart that the chicks can go between
them when they are small, I hook the door open a couple of inches as they
get bigger. Inside the cage is chick food and water. The mature chickens
can't get inside so it is a safe place for the chicks to go where there is
always food and water just for them. I'm not sure where the term "creep
feed" came from - think I first heard it when I had baby lambs. Anyway,
it has worked well for me over the few years I've had chickens and chicks.

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the story so far:

i have a broody chook and my neighbour risked life and limb to get me two
fertile (we hope!!) eggs from under one of her broodies (an angry one .
they are due to hatch some time in the next few days but we don't know the
day. when we got the eggs they'd been sat on for "about" two weeks
already, & my broody was only sitting herself for one of those weeks, so
she might get a surprise

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the story so far:

i have a broody chook and my neighbour risked life and limb to get
me two fertile (we hope!!) eggs from under one of her broodies (an
angry one . they are due to hatch some time in the next few days
but we don't know the day. when we got the eggs they'd been sat on
for "about" two weeks already, & my broody was only sitting herself
for one of those weeks, so she might get a surprise ;-)

today's update is: one egg was cracking this morning. later in the
morning bunce was tapping it with her beak & talking to it. then, i
had to go out for the day.

when we all got back, the egg has _entirely disappeared_(!)