So we are newbies with 12, 4 month old Welsummers. We free range all day long and shut them up in their coop at night. We have a rooster and a large livestock guard dog and so far we have had zero problems with free ranging on our 10 acres. There's almost always someone here as we work opposite...
My nephew stepped on one of my 2 week old chicks - he realized it halfway through so didn't completely step on it...but I think he hurt the chick where the wing meets the body...or in that general area. I think this because right after it happened he sort of limped away with that wing hanging...
I was supposed to be getting my chicks from a breeder sometime mid-may, but they are delayed due to rooster issues and I the breeder just told me that it could be a couple weeks before he even has the eggs. Which means I'm looking at mid to late June before I'll get them. He gave me the option...
I was supposed to be getting my chicks from a breeder sometime mid-may, but they are delayed due to rooster issues and the breeder just told me that it could be a couple weeks before he even has the eggs. Which means I'm looking at mid to late June before I'll get them. He gave me the option to...
So I recieved a lot of help with my last question, and now I have another one. The two major projects in front of us this year are the coop and I'm also in need of a garden shed in a bad way. Now that you fine chicken people have helped me realize that I'm better off putting the coop/run closer...
My husband and I have wanted to get 3-5 chickens for 4 years now but our kids were so young we weren't quite ready to take it on. I would really like it to happen this year, but now that I've started researching I'm just so overwhelmed. I'm a very thorough person and I hate 'experimenting' I...