Our FIRST Chickens!!!! July 30, 2009
BYC has been extremely helpful to me already, a new chicken owner of some 3 week old chickies! One is a runt so I needed some help/advice/guidance and I gathered lots of it from the forum. THANKS TO ALL MY POSTERS!!!!
Here are the chicks at WEEK ONE...
Everyone on this site is super nice and extremely helpful! Thank you so much to everyone who posted! I think the suggestions have helped my "half pint"!!! I am so grateful to you guys!
I have taken the advice of getting a bigger home for them with heat on one side until they can go...
Thanks for the superfast replies! I did take out a chicken book and have been trying to soak up as much as possible and heard about the pasty butt, and heat requirements. But I know that some things are just experience and I didn't grow up with chickens and have no clue about what can go wrong...
Hi, everyone! We have just gotten our FIRST 4 barred rock chickens. After taking care of the neighbors chickens when they're out of town, we thought it would be great to have some of our own. So we got 4 week old chicks from a local farm. The lady recommended medicated chick starter and...