So I have four chickens that are right at 8 weeks old. Right now they are in the brooder on the front porch. The current temperature is 62 degrees. I have a heater in there on the lowest setting.
I have my old coop that I'm going to transfer them to before they go to the main coop. I do...
So last weekend I finished building my brooder. It's a three level brooder with plenty of space (~20x96 per level).
I got chicks in on Wednesday. All arrived in good shape as far as I can tell. This is my first time in many years raising chicks.
Thursday morning, they were all still...
Greetings all! I've been lurking for a while and finally decided to join.
I got chickens, ducks and guineas about a year ago (raised a few chickens growing up). One morning I got up and discovered that all of them had been beheaded(mink more than likely, I have them in the wetlands). I had...