Hello and welcome! Wishing you great success with your broilers. This really is a great caring chicken community to be a part of, glad you are on board!
The fact that some people use sand in their brooders was why I thought it was okay too, but when I saw how they were going after it, it made me wonder. Better to play it safe. Appreciate all your thoughts!
Hi Valerie, we have a heat lamp with a red light, have a thermometer, thank you for checking. Temperature seems to be working for them. One with a little pasty butt, she is all cleaned up and I saw her poop, which was a big relief. We put some all purpose sand in for them and they really love...
Thank you, without a doubt there will be questions! This is such a warm and welcoming community ~ so grateful to have all this support!
Still figuring out how to use the site effectively, so forgive if the response is technically sloppy. We will brood them inside for now, have a good sized...
Hi Sandy, isn't this a great site to learn from? I just "joined" tonight too (also from the PNW like you) lucky you to have a hobby farm! We just have a little place, but our town is rural and very accepting of folks having chickens. We've been building and preparing for them, picking up some...
Hello out there! I've been reading BYC gleaning great info ~ thank you for all the wonderful information, what a gift this site is! We have been preparing ourselves in every imaginable way in the last six weeks to become good chicken parents to 6 little chicks we will be picking up tomorrow...