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Hey! My chicks are about 5 weeks old. They are almost out of their starter... bags almost empty. I have chicks about 11 weeks old I am feeding grower. Instead of buying the little ones another 50# bag of starter, could I just feed them the grower, which I already have. It would save a couple of...

Hey everyone! I just got the book- Building Chicken Coops for Dummies. However, I bought it after I built my coop... kinda backwards, right? Well, it's freakin' sweet! Rob, this book is wonderful! Anyone else have this book? If not, you should get it. Now all I need is the Raising Chickens...

Hey. At what age do barred rock cockerels start to develop combs? Trying to figure out how many cockerels I have. -Thanks.

I have 10 barred rocks 3 weeks of age. The hens that laid the fertile eggs are purebred barred rocks. The rooster is a barred rock, and what looks to be RIR mix. He has the bars of a barred rock, but some feathers are brownish red. Maybe he has no RIR at all, IDK. Anyways, they had these 10...

Recently I hatched 11 chicks. 11 chicks call for a new coop. Unfortunately it is winter here in Northern PA. That means it's COLD! The chicks won't stop growing, so I have to start building. The coop you see behind the frame of the floor is my existing 4x4. I needed a bigger coop so I made the...

I am trying to copy an image from my uploads and paste it in the BYC page editor. It says the cut/copy/paste function does not work in Mozilla Firefox... how do I get around this other than having to download IE?

Hey! I am going to start building a new coop this weekend to accommodate 11 new chickens. It is going to be a 4' by 8' coop. The walls will be 8 feet high, but there will be an extra 2 feet between the rafters and ridge in the roof. So, 10 feet at the highest point. Here's my question: How high...

Hello! I hatched 10 chicks 2 weeks ago. Last spring I got five BR's at the feed store. When they got to be five weeks old, I put them out in their coop. If it was spring, I would put these 10 out when they got to be five weeks of age, however it's not spring. It's Northern PA and cold in the...

Help! This is my first time hatching eggs. On friday, day 20, 2 of my 12 eggs hatched. I stopped turning the eggs on day 18.. but when these guys hatched on the 20th day, they pushed some of the eggs around. So far nothing else has hatched. It's day 22. I just put water in a few minutes ago to...

Hello everyone in the BYC World. Recently I came to the conclusion that I want to hatch my own eggs. Unfortunately I don't have an incubator. I've looked for plans on how to make 'em, but they seem complicated or complex. I just need something simple, I'll manually turn the eggs. I just need to...