I was a little nervous to put them out tonight. The temps here are still dipping down into the 40's on occasion and we're supposed to get a good bit of rain tonight. They were feeling cramped in their brooder though, and starting to get a little stinky. It's kind of like with your kids. At some...
I have four chicks which are approx. 5 weeks old. I have started to turn their light off at night in the last week. Tonight I noticed something new. I went to look in on them about half an hour after I had turned out their light and they had knocked their waterer off of the blocks it was sitting...
I purchased this chick which was in a tub of RIRs at the local farm store. This is my first batch of chicks, I thought I had purchased two RIRs and two Barred Rocks, but this is obviously not a RIR. She was a pretty yellow color, now the wing feathers are growing in white and brown. Her legs are...