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These posts are just too good to read!! I'm so excited for our chicks to get here and now it's even worse. We can't wait to see them do some of their silly antics and the picture of the chick that looks dead...wow...that's all we can say...we're glad we come across these posts so that we don't...

I life in Wellsboro PA and have a close TSC and when they first started getting chicks in you were able to pick them up and they even offered hand sanatizer to use afterwards, however last week when we went in to see that they had gotten for a shippment they had cattle gates around all the...

Of the research I've done you should start your chicks on at least 20% protein and then ween them down as they get older and they should end up at 16% protein when they start laying. For instance: 1day old-6wks old:20% protein, 6wks-14wks:18% protein, and 15wks-22wks:16% protein. The first food...

:)Welcome from Wellsboro, PA..you'll love this site and all the people on it, we are all working to have the most healthy flocks!

Hello all! Mother of two beautiful little girls and we're on our first adventure of raising five black australorps and five guinea hens all from babies, very excited to get them to the house, just head though they won't be in until May...so sad..we are ready for them now! I love this site and...

Hello all, I'm new to the forum world and to the world of chickens, my two young daughters and I are going to start raising a small flock, and by small I mean five, of Black Australorps and five Guinea Hens, although after the Guinea Hens feather out and I can tell the difference between male...