We successfully hatched five chicks last month and have just kicked them out of our living room and into the basement while my friend builds us a coop. She's a little stalled on the project and it just occurred to me to wonder if we might be able to keep them down there until February or early...
Ok, I know I should have bought a thing to read the humidity, but I was totally out of money after buying an incubator and all the eggs (we doing this with a preschool). Anyway, I have a Brinsea and filled the two sides of the pot on day 18 and started lockdown. Now I have three pips and lot...
We're building a coop in Brooklyn (rats!, raccoons, cats) and considering putting it on a part of the yard that has brick-shaped paving stones so that any rats would not be able to burrow underneath. Is this a bad idea? Would it be too moist? Our thought is a tractor-type coop that we could...
We knew we were pushing it with an October hatch, but today our incubator died. So we need to start over with a new incubator. I'm worried that we will not hatch mid-October and need to put the babies out mid-late November. Is this a terrible idea?
It would be simple to say we should start...
I'm beginning my chicken journey in the fall with a group of preschool kids. We're planning to hatch eggs so as to see the whole egg-to-egg process, but trying to avoid buying an incubator. Any leads for renting or borrowing one in the NYC/Brooklyn region?