Recent content by ArabianLights

We just got our shipment of 37 chicks early Thursday morning. 4 were dead on arrival, a 5th died within 1/2 hour despite being given sugar water. The rest appeared healthy, except for one that seemed to have balance issues. It would stagger crazily and then fall over, right itself and then...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I first got chickens when I was 8 or 9 years old and continued to keep chickens through my teens. Now, as a young mother of 3 boys, I am just getting back into chickens and for the first time I am raising day old chicks. (2) How...