I made my 8 week old chicks a dust bath - saw a post on here somewhere but can't find it now - out of peat moss & DE in a great big terra cotta bowl. They started eating it - not just scratching & pecking around, but gulping down big mouthfuls of it like they were starving...
Why would they do...
When I built the main living space for my girls, I allowed 18" headroom above the roost, and 18" below for them to use the floor space under the roost.
I forgot to allow 6" for the litter. So I decided I'll just use 2 or 3 inches of litter in the coop and rake it out more frequently, and only...
Hi, from Tacoma, WA! Just brought my 6 sweet Buff Orpington chickies home yesterday and they are the cutest. I'm in love.
Such fun. When I first brought them home, they ran in terror from me - I was so worried - because of a vacation I had to get them when they were already 12 days old. But...