Recent content by mikealicia

What is a site any of you would suggest to get blueprints for building a coop? Is the site free blueprints? If not how much per blueprint? I know many have built their own coops and love the idea of it being "their design" type project. I would love the know how, time, and money to build from...

We pretty much have double rolled our chicken run with 1 inch 20 gauge wire. It is a big box for a run and it works well. we went through and stapled the first layer and then did the same thing with the second, only spacing it different to make all the holes smaller. It is tight like a small...

My wife skins apples for our 2 boys and we give the skin to the chicks. They seem to like the skin enough to eat most of it.

Yeah I figured, just was curious if it was really possible more so than probable.

Thanks for the welcomes. Also thank you to the two who posted more than a welcome message. I appreciate that and yes, lessons like that sometime have to be learned the hard way.

I wouldn't think it would go bad.

I enjoy treads like this for the information that comes from it. We have given the skin to our chicks, but still we make sure their feed is more than enough for them to eat along with any scraps we give them.

I wish I would have read this before. Our puppy got a hold of our Black Australorp while we were gone and now we are without her.

Hope it isn't serious for your chicken.

Right in town in Cedar Rapids!

Is it possible to get just 1 chick or hen from any online hatchery? We have 5 chicks and can have only a total of 6 so I just want to buy one. Figured I would ask here if anyone has come across a hatchery that will do that.

Hello all. Our family has just gotten into chickens at the beginning of May. We started with 6 chicks, 2 Barred Rocks, 1 Black Australorp, 1 Black Sex Link, and 2 Americanas. Unfortunately we have lost our Black Australorp due to leaving them out on accident and our puppy got ahold of her...