Our ladies are almost 6 weeks. The weather is finally getting nice enough that the coolest it will be in the upcoming weeks is in the low-mid 50s. Do they look ready to move to the outside coop? There is no extra heat in the coop.
After some failure to thrive, we have 3 remaining that are 6 days old. We are wondering whether to keep going with only these 3 until they can move to the coop or introduce some more chicks to bring the numbers back up.
Would the 3 older ones accept some 1-2 day old chicks? Or would we be...
My father in law plans to start keeping chickens this spring, and yesterday he called me super excited about finding a jumbo quail breeder near us. So now he wants a covey for company too. (He's so cute, I love him!)
He isn't interested in having to build anything from scratch this year, so I...
Exciting news for OKC! The city council passed a new ordinance on February 1, 2022, on the subject of urban chicken and quail. Vote passed 6-3. I just got confirmation from the city clerk that the new ordinance will go into effect on March 3, 2022.
From FreePressOKC.com:
"The ordinance...
The Oklahoma City council passed a new ordinance allowing urban chicken and quail in city limits just this morning and I had to join this forum right away. Ever since learning that I was not legally able to keep backyard chicken or quail there was nothing I wanted more, and I'm so excited to...