Recent content by Riffero70

We went cold turkey last night (no lights no heat lamp). They all did great no fuss or muss when the lights went out. I have a perch set up in their box and half of them were on there this morning when normally only 1 or maybe 2 used to ever sit on it.

We have 6 chicks that are now 8 weeks old. We've been moving the heat lamp away each week and it's just within 10-15deg of the outside air temp outside and within 5 deg of the basement temp. The lamp is on 24/7 when do you start to turn it off at night and only have it on during the day? I've...

So we purchased 6 chicks all guaranteed to be hens (replacement if it a roo because the of the city ordnance of not having roos). They are 8 weeks 1 day and one started Crowing. We had a feeling Pepper might be a roo a week or two ago but this is our first batch of chicks so we don't have any...

Thanks for all the good information. It is much appreciated. Den in Penn, They will not be free ranged very much (or that is the plan) but we will be fencing off part of the yard so the Dogs can't get to them. One dog is obsessed with "eating" chicken or any small animal for that matter...

Hi BYC members. I grew up on a farm and raised chicks amongst other animals as a kid but have recently started an urban flock in the Pacific Northwest. Right now we have 3 Barred Rock and 3 Americana chicks. We are also looking at rescuing two Transylvanian Naked Neck layers that their owners...

I'm new to or I should say new again to chicken keeping (it's been 30years). I grew up around them but picked up 6 new chicks last week. Today I had the opportunity to rescue two Transylvanian Naked Necks that needed re-homing (We'll be getting them this weekend). They just started laying so are...