Preparing the Brooder

Our chicks are due to hatch tomorrow, so we had to get their brooder ready for them! We bought a big Rubbermaid bin and filled it with pine flakes, we had to make sure we didn't use fine pine shavings because the chicks would inhale those and it would be bad for their breathing! We filled up their food container and put their water container in their bin. We didn't put water in it yet because we wanted it to be fresh when we put them in there. We put a heat lamp on the side of the bin, we all tested it too...it was very warm! And the most exciting part of our day was....we had moving eggs!!!!! A few of our eggs are moving around which means we should have baby chicks by tomorrow!!!



Scooping their food into it's container





Making sure the pine shavings are just right



IT'S MOVING!!!!!!!