I'm headed to the feed store, and will pick up a deep food dish for them, as well as some meds to put in their water. We just got them last Saturday, and they were very stressed out (way too many roosters in their confined space) so a little TLC from our chicken loving children (plus some meds...
We have over 100 chickens in total. Out of that number, the amount of chicks we have are:
White Plymouth Rock (23)
Danish Brown Leghorn (2)
Black Australorp (2)
New Hampshire Red (2)
and
Lavender Guineas (3)
Pearl Guineas (3)
Purple Guineas (3)
We just purchased some hens that had been debeaked (and were living in a ridiculously small confined area) by their previous owners. They are beautiful birds, and are slowly getting used to their new (and much larger) pastured area on our farm. However, they seem to be struggling with eating the...