Im using a brooder plate. I just raised it a hair since they are a week old so 90 degrees. Room
Temp is about 60 in my basement. I use an infrared thermometer to take the temp 3x a day.
Hello! I am a first time backyard chicken tender from Maine. My first flock is 2 Rhode Island reds and 2 barred rocks. I have 1.5 acres they will eventually free range on and hopefully will add more chickens as time goes (started with a smaller coop but also had 2 chicks die in transient :( )
I...
Hello all! I am a first time chicken tender. We got our day old chicks last Wednesday (they shipped Monday). We got 6 but 2 died in shipping so only have 4 now. So they are a week old now. I have one that came with her umbilical cord still on...she was a little more lethargic then the others too...
