My sweeties are all in the coop tonight. They are four weeks old and have been living in my livingroom. I came home today and two had escaped and were running around the house! Anyways, the brooder was getting too small anyways. The lamp is shinning brightly in the coop keeping them warm. They...
The ones with the black stripes on their backs and the eyes that look like chipmuncks or eyeliner are 100% Easter Eggers. That's my opinion anyways. AND I think the black ones are Australorps.
Haha Penny is a terd. She is the SMALLEST of my 12 chicks (three different breeds) and is the first to peck me when I reach my hand down into the brooder. Haha I should have named him "ill pill" haha.
As I've been reading only for the past three weeks on here I'm no expert at all. But I have read a few people post that it was necessary and a few people had to stop giving it to their chicks b/c they thought it the cause of sickness.