We are fairly new to chickens and will be entering some in the county fair soon. When you do this, should you have all one kind of chicken in your flock so that you don't have mixed breeds? Or does it work that way? How are the breeding habits? Do the roosters just breed with any old hen...
I guess it could be called a chicken tractor, as it will be moved around.
I worked outside all day Wednesday building the chicken pen. Here is what I started with:
We found 2 of these outside of a business by the dumpster. We asked about them and they said to take anything out there, it...
We got 4 bantams and 3 guineas at Atwoods tonight. We have the lamp a few feet high and the temp is showing to be 96 degrees. I've had chicks as a child, but the mommas raised them. These are our family's first chicks!! Here is a pic of them, not a wonderful pic, but it will have to do...
Of course, I don't have an incubator, but since the chicks will be our pets, should I get one and hatch chicks, or if I buy chicks, will they still grow attached to us and be good tame pets. I know that the first thing a newly hatched chick sees will always be momma (I hatched several in our...
I don't know if I've ever posted here, been a member for awhile I think. We don't have any chickens yet. I want to build a small coop, but don't really know where to start. It needs to be really cheap & easy to build. We don't want alot of chickens, just a few for pets and a few eggs, and...