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My 8 week old RIR chicks are out in the coop. It's a damp windy blustery day here in Maine. Wondering wether I should open the ridge vents and leave the doors shut for the day. Or open the doors and let them do their thing. Concern is the wind blowing the rain in through the doors and making a...

This first flock of chicks has been great fun. I guess first and foremost chicks grow fast!!! We started the brooding process with a small Rubbermaid tote switched to a couple larger size totes and finished with a 6 foot x 3 foot brooder box that we built. Prepare ahead of time, build something...

I purchased a 165 foot roll of poultry netting and set it up around the coop. It's working great, both our dogs have gotten the education that the chickens bite , so does the fence. We heard something get learned around 2:30am the other morning and it sounded like a whale call crashing through...

This is one if our 4 week old RIR chicks that's had this great comb since day one (it seems) We have suspected it may have been the Roo of the Crew. But now the rest of the ladies combs seem to have caught up with this one. This is our first flock. Any opinions on which this one may be??

Hi all!!! As a firefighter and new chicken rancher just a quick reminder . It's totally common sense but with spring chick days going on, remember to be safe with the brooder lamps. Keep the dust wiped off them daily, and safe distance from combustible items. There was a big barn a couple towns...

The ladies are coming along great! This is turning out to be so much fun, can't wait to make the first breakfast with our eggs. So rewarding.

Purina has a recall on chicken feed for the states of Washington and oregon

Is this product safe to use for chicks? My ladies are 4 weeks old. And the weather here in the northeast has me waiting to move them outside, but even with daily cleaning of the brooder box it's just not enough.

Anyone have recommendations for perches, I was told to just nail 2x4s across the interior if the coop for roosting.

I have a 12x14 salt box style woodshed that I built a few years ago, it's really been used for no purpose except storage and we kept a couple rows of firewood in it. We are 3 weeks into brooding our flock of RIR's. And all is going amazing!! This is so much fun. Ok, the problem is that the shed...

So far so good with our first flock of Rhode Island Reds. First lesson learned, make sure your brooder box is big enough to raise the chicks from day one till they go to the great outdoors. We built our new brooder box this weekend and it's been well received by our flock if 12. Second lesson...

Hello all! We are starting to plan our chicken coop and run area. We are located in a rural area and we have been seeing foxes, bobcats and I'm sure after the scent of chicken feed and the snowbanks receed we will see raccoons. As for the height of fencing around the run, what would you that...

Hello all! I've held off on my introduction and read many of your posts, y'all are an awesome bunch of people . I'm completely new to raising chickens. We have our first group of fine ladies growing in a 50 gallon Rubbermaid roller tote. We started with 13 (only bought 12) we now only have 12...