I originally posted this in the 'Feeding & Watering Your Flock', but later thought that maybe it should have gone in this section (?). I'm not sure. I haven't gotten a response in the other forum section, but this section seems to move quicker than the other one and some opinions/advice would be...
I have three chicks that range from 2-4 weeks old and as of recently, they have been going through food really quickly, we bought a 5lb bag of chick starter last Saturday and it's about half gone as of today. In the first week I had them, they went through almost 1lb of feed in a week, so them...
Ok, so I've been looking at some tractor coop designs to get ready to build a coop for my three chicks. My question is could chicken wire be used as flooring for the part of the coop that houses the chickens? I see people using linoleum as flooring, but no chicken wire, why is that?
I know I just posted a big whole long thread about an hour an a half ago, but my Frizzle chick, Scootaloo, just scared me twice. First, she went to pick at something in her feathers and her beak got stuck and she tried to break free by shaking her head, her getting stuck scared me so I picked...
Yesterday my family picked up three baby chicks at our local cherry flea market. We got Ginger the Rhode Island Red (about 6 days old), Gilbird the creme Silkie (about 11 days old), and Scootaloo the black Frizzle (about 15 days old).
I posted some questions already, and I'd be really happy if...
I apologize in advance for being really wordy, I try to be as specific as possible. To make it easier on you, I put my questions and tags in bold and the details follow and are not in bold.
Introductions: Yesterday my family picked up three baby chicks at our local cherry flea market. We got one...