Articles by chazz0861

My birds are 5 weeks old today. I built a run out of 1/2" PVC Pipe and Deer Netting for them. It is 6' X 20' X 4' with a swimming pool on one end for the ducks. They really love the new run and the ducks and even some of the chickens love the pool. I hung the feeder and small water fonts from...

Went to Ideal Poultry yesterday and picked up my flock. I got 25 Easter Egger Pullets and 2 males, 25 Gold Sex Links Pullets and 2 males, 15 Straight Run Rouen Ducklings and 15 Straight Run White Pekin Ducklings. I drove 2 hours with them in the backseat of the truck and cheerfully listened to...

Yesterday I called Ideal Poultry and placed my first order of chicks and ducklings. I ordered 25 Easter Egger pullets and 2 males, 25 Gold Sex Link pullets and 2 males, 15 Rouen ducklings straight run and 15 White Pekin ducklings straight run. I am going to pick them up at Ideal Poultry this...

I built a Brood Box for my new babies. I made it fairly large for the number of birds I got. 4' X 8' X 2'.It did not take them long to get to loving it

Except for a few chicks that died last week during a bad thunderstorm, wind blew the cover off the brood box and they trampled each other to death trying to get warm, my birds are doing great. I was worried I was going to lose most of the chicks because they were all wet and listless but as they...

Except for a few chicks that died last week during a bad thunderstorm, wind blew the cover off the brood box and they trampled each other to death trying to get warm, my birds are doing great. I was worried I was going to lose most of the chicks because they were all wet and listless but as they...