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But it will be months before I could build that... So are my poor birds doomed to be inside until then?

We are getting a 27 chick order from them today...

Does not sound good...

How high can they jump? Our fence is 4' high... Problem with putting a top on the yard is that we rotate it 3 or 4 times a year so they have fresh ground, and then... We live in a national park so any thing we do in our yard (I mean ANYTHING like putting in flowers!) needs to get approval and...

Yesterday morning hubby was sitting up at the computer and heard the chickens making a commotion. He looked out the window and saw a coyote at the fence. He bounded down the stairs “in about 3 steps,” put our Rottie on a leash and they chased it away. Unfortantly we lost one of our 12...

I am trying to think how many chick's I've ordered in the past few years... somewhere between 70 and 100... In the first 8 weeks of their lives I have lost zero chicks. None dead on arrival, lots of pasty buts but no deaths from it, a few chicks who seemed a bit "off" but yogurt and...

Don't feel to bad... (Confession time, please do NOT read further if you are upset about chicks dieing) The second time we got chicks (straight run) about 80% were roos... By the time they were about 8 weeks and were starting to crow we decided we did not have enough room for that many...

So we bought these most recent 5 chicks as a gift for my 5 year old neice. They will stay at my farm with my flock but be hers. This little girl is a chicken fanatic... Is??? Maybe was... I;m not sure yet but some of the facination might of warn off when one of the chicks pooped on her...

That makes sense... I thought maybe they were magic!

My first batch went in the spare bedroom. I swear I was still finding little piles of chick dust a year later! The next batch dear hubby would not let chickens inside the house... So they went in the barn... As much as I love chicks, past a couple days (maybe) they really don't belong in my...

I got them at 12:30... All good... I had a very happy little girl to stay with as she spent hours staring at her chicks... Staring, because she was not to pleased when one pooped on her!

My sister in law was going to call the cops to arrest us for animal creulty after we slaughtered a few chickens last year. I was in shock... I just laughed when that weekend we went to dinner and she got chicken... And how did she think it got there? Grew on a chicken tree...

This may not be a popular answer, but someone told me when I first started and it has almost elimated the problem. Remember, chicks are chickens and not pets... When you see pasty bottom do not gently dab with a paper towel, you will be doing that every day for weeks! Instead get rid of the...

1. Name of hatchery. - My Pet Chicken 2. Shipping Date. - 5/27/08 3. Date arrived. 5/28/08 4. Average temperature arround arrival. 60 degrees 5. Number of chickens, ducks, geese, etc bought. 5 chicks 6. Number dead at arrival. 0 7. Number dead within 2 days. none so far 8. Number dead within a...

My order from My Pet Chicken came yeseterday. They seemed a bit more clummsy on their feet then other chicks I've gotten but then I realized, that since they shipped express I got them a full day earlier. They were eating a drinking fine, and were pretty active for day olds! One did scare me...