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We moved our six week old chicks to the freshly installed "apartment" in the coop. The big girls are used to the apartment wall since we installed it several weeks ago. However, tonight will be the first night that the apartment will have residents in it. I'm very happy with how it turned out...

She (?) is 5 1/2 weeks old and I'm confused by the feathers sticking up near the tail/lower back. I have another chick who sometimes has feathers sticking up like this but sometimes they are laid down. This particular chick, those feathers are always fluffed up like this.

Thanks for any input!

I believe this is a first egg from our barred rock, the only other near ready to lay is an Ameraucana. I've read that first eggs can, and often are, irregular and can be misshapen along with a variety of other abnormalities including discoloration. These spots are textured, meaning they are...

I make my own feed (oat groat, wheat berries, split peas, lentils, flax seed, sesame seed, etc) and whole corn is one of the ingredients. My girls are 5 months old and they consistently leave the corn in the feeder, picking out everything else. I realize during the summer it's just an...

I have six chicks that are 7 weeks old, living outside in a tractor for 2 weeks now. The first couple of days they were kept confined in the coop, and around the third night they started sleeping on the roost, right under the heat lamp (lows were in the 20's and 30's their first week). Once we...

6 weeks old.

Finally! So excited to see them : )

We are expecting our first chickens in two weeks and I can't seem to find a lot of feedback on scattering feed vs using a traditional feeder. We have built our tractor, 6x12 enclosed run with raised 4x6 coop, that will be home to six 4 week old chicks from McMurray hatchery. I intend to move the...