Posts by BGinVA

I appreciate all the words of comfort, but I have to correct my oringal post, it wasn't the roof of the coop but the roof of the run.  Once I reread it, I was like "what?".  The coop and run are 99.999% complete we just have...

Thanks for the thoughts.  Went out and checked on them once last night when I couldn't sleep, the little chicks didn't go to their brooder coop or the big coop last night they huddled up against the side of the run, the big chicks...

Saturday afternoon my husband completed the roof on the chicken coop and it is all done.  I moved my brooder coup out into the run with the plan of continuing supervised play dates but with the little ones in constant view. ...

Great donrae, your advice seems to closely mirror what I was hoping to do, thanks!

I live in Central VA and honestly I'm not doing anything.  I don't do anything special for my outdoor dogs come winter except ensure if we have a long cold spell that they have unfrozen water available.  As someone else...

Wow had no idea honey suckle was toxic, might need to go do some pruning at the tree line next spring, thanks for posting. 

Thanks Ron C, I've read the "fully feathered" thing before but I guess I don't totally understand it.  Yeah, they have some feathers, but if you feel them you also feel a lot of prickly things that tell you that new feathers are...

My youngest chicks will be 5 weeks old in a couple of days.  I've been using a heat lamp a little each day with them maintaining the 5 degree temp drop per week.  For the most part they don't need any heat during the day, but...

2 roosters, 2 pullets, 6 chicks = 10   67,045 + 10 = 67,055

I have one 4 week old, the kids named her Goldie, she is by far the most mellow of her brooder mates, I'm looking forward to watching her mature.