Articles by fraufaulkner

Our adventure with chickens started in April 2018 when we picked up our first chicks from Meyer Hatchery. We started with two white Silkies, two Mille Fleur d'Uccles, two Easter Eggers, a Plymouth Barred Rock, an Australorp, and a Buckeye. One Silkie failed to thrive and was replaced with a Blue...

I thought I would share how our indoor brooder set up looks and what we did when they needed more space but still didn't have a finished coop yet! We made our chick brooder last year (2018) using giant Sterilite bins (50 gallon - the biggest we could find). I cut the majority of the lid out...