Great words of encouragement! when the chicks are older they will inly free range with supervision, im to paranoid to lose one. As for now when we leave our dog is in her kennel because the chicks are living in the dinning room.
We are new to chickens and have chicks that are about a week old now and our dog is good with them right now, is there I turning point when I need to be extra watchful? Our dog Josie likes to look at them when we handle the chicks and she will sniff them but that's all she will do. If we aren't...
I think it subconsciously came from to kill a mockingbird. We were just thinking of names out loud and both liked Atticus. I have been trying to take pictures but when I get in the groove when im working I seem to forget about taking pictures.
Thanks for the nice welcome and links. I have been reading a lot since this is all new to me. I pulled nails yesterday for a couple hours which was no fun but today I got some help. we picked a spot and dug a hole for our coop.
I just wanted to introduce myself, my name is Ryan and my wife is Meg and our little boy is Atticus. We are from the NW but the Navy brought us to southern California. We just recently decided to raise chickens(4 or 5) but don't have any yet. I am trying to build our coop from all reclaimed...