On nice days we have been letting our girls out of their run to free range our yard between the patches of snow. They absolutely love it and have come to expect it. I noticed this morning that our daffodils are starting to emerge from one of the areas the chickens have been pecking and...
We have ten 7 week old hens that have just moved outdoors and are in need of a coop. The problem is, my husband won't have time to build the perfect coop he has in mind until next spring. Right now the chicks are in a 8x12x6 foot run covered with plywood. We put their 4x6x2 foot chicken...
Our chicks are 5 weeks old and have been raised to this age on Purina Start-N-Grow. Yesterday I went to our local feed store to buy more feed and asked for starter feed for baby chicks. I paid for it and they loaded it into the trunk of my car. When I got home and looked at the bag, it's not...
I went to the local feed store to buy pine bedding for our baby chicks and saw that they are selling shredded cardboard bedding for small animals like guinea pigs, rats, and rabbits. I got to thinking we could put our cardboard boxes through our garden shredder and make our own. Does anybody...