So for the past two springs, I've hatched chicks in my kids' school. The chickens then went to live at my parent's house in the country. My city recently passed legislation to allow backyard chickens (yay!) So I bought a tiny coop (actually, my wonderful sister bought me one!) and took two of...
We had a late hatcher in our incubator. The humidity dropped because I removed some chicks that were already hatched. Today I removed a few more that just needed to dry off and decided to look at the other eggs in case there was a pip that I had missed.
Well there was not only a pip, but a...
I raised chickens last year (hatched them in my kids' classrooms) and built a coop at my dad's place in the country. We couldn't keep chickens ourselves because of our city's regulations.
BUT! They just changed and are doing a two-year trial starting in May. So the babies that are hatching in...
We have three dozen eggs that are due to hatch on Tuesday. Most will be going to live at my dad's house in the country and will be starting out in some kind of pen in their attached garage (after a couple of weeks in the brooder.)
My kids and I plan to keep 4 of them, but our garage is not...
We'll be starting to incubate some chicken eggs in my kids' classrooms next week. I'm thinking ahead about how to candle them.
The classrooms are pretty bright. We can close the shades, etc, but it is still not a dark room by any means. Is it possible to candle them in a room that doesn't...
I'm going to hatch some eggs in my kids' classrooms this spring. The chickens will live at my parents' farm. (They're just starting a flock and we thought this would be a fun way to do it.)
We're hoping to have chickens that are pretty docile since they're be around kids a lot, pretty decent...