My brooder has a wooden floor and deep litter. I have absolutely no feed waste. I would never even think to put biddies, pullets or chickens in anything with a wire bottom.
My lab/terrier mix is 6 years old and when I first got biddies, I introduced them to her as her babies and only had to tell her once or twice to be nice. I didn't call them "chicken" for a long time, because she associated that word with food. Now we do call them chickens and she is
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We just headed 70 lbs of shrimp. We did it outside of course in this beautiful autumn weather. We were surrounded by chickens and they started picking shrimp heads out of the scrap bucket. So we ended up tossing even the heads to the chickens. There were 36 of them around us. They picked them...
We used 6 free Pergo pallets. They are approx 8 ft wide and 7 ft tall. Just nailed them together. Purchased 2x4's to nail the clear Plexiglass roofing to. Part of the roof is metal roofing that was left over from the house. The dimensions are approx 9 ft x 16 ft.
Here are the chicks at 2...