I have 10 chicks that are 15 days old. They were going through about five pounds of medicated chick starter in around six days, I was filling the feeder every 12 hours. The last three days, however, they haven't been eating nearly as much, only filled the feeder after around 48 hours. They seem...
Just received my first chicks on April 7, they were born on April 5. Three silver laced wyandottes, three barred rocks, and four black australorps (the hatchery sent an extra).
I'm in the country, so I have a lot of predators to worry about: coyotes, foxes, raccoons, opossums, skunks, hawks, snakes, rats, wandering dogs. I'm sure I'm leaving out a few! I will bury a foot of hardware cloth below the chain link fence to keep animals from digging under and in, and will...
West-central Illinois. Brand new to raising chickens, get my first shipment of chicks in early April: three silver laced wyandottes, three black australorps, and three barred rocks. Coop and run almost finished, just waiting for that warm weather to return.
Almost finished with my first coop. Measures 8 x 8 feet, inside measures 48 inches high in the front sloping to 38 inches in the back, will have a run measuring 24 x 24 feet surrounding it.