Posts by Madjohn85

Wait...I think my communications skills are not doing their thing.  lol.  I kind of meant when do you know of they are fertilized or not in order to hatch them.  Once you crack them and check the 'dot', the purpose is...

Excuse my ignorance, and though when we first started with our chicks, both before they came and a few months after they arrived, I have not been on here in a while.   We are in suburbia.  Pretty much ignorant in general....

They have been inside, in the basement, but without a heat lampf or over a week now.   They went out againthis afternoon, and they did a little better, but now I am noticing that a few are starting to chest bump.  I...

    Last night, the run was almost finished, so while we were finishing up, I told the boys to get the chikcens and put them in there anyway.     They have been getting WAY too big for their brooder and are...

Mine are going on 6 weeks, and I wonder if they DO still need a heat lamp.  We have about the same temps here.

I know when we got our Plymouth Barred, I thought maybe one of them was a rooster.   Yous guys told me to look at the feet and if there was no black on them it was a roo.   There was none, and I knew it!!...

So, I have heard it say that chickens will eat anything.  Which sounds a lot like my beagles.     Let me back-track for a second.  I belong to an organic fruits and vegetable co-op.  I was helping...

We are finally getting there.  Both our boys and my father helped, hoping it is sooner rather than later. Projected mostly finished date? End of this week!!  The chicks are 5 weeks old today, so they are...

Oh aren't they cute??  Ours are going to be 5 weeks come monday.  I CANNOT believe the difference very.single.week. makes as I take their pictures.  I feel like they are going through their awkward adolescent stage now....

Oh my.  First, I am thinking having one chick is probably going to be very sad for that soon to be 1 chicken.  They are um....what is the word?  Pack animals?  Is that for mammals only??  Regardless, if you are...