This may be kinda gross to some folks, but here goes. Sometimes when I'm holding one of my pullets on my arm and talking to her, she'll peck at the space where my teeth meet and eat something from there, whether a little bit of plaque or just saliva, I don't know.
I'm wondering if there are...
Hi y'all,
I have four chicks who will be five weeks old tomorrow. I have them in a homemade cardboard brooder (about 1.5' by 3.5') in my bedroom. Their bedding is dried leaves, mostly willow oaks, from my backyard. At this point, though, their bedding is probably about half chick feed . They...
Hi there! I've looked around but have had trouble getting a good sense of what 'moderation' versus 'too much' looks like when feeding grape pieces to my little chicks.
They love them and I enjoy the opportunity to work on socializing them a bit, but I definitely don't want to overload their...
Hi y'all,
I'm a queer urban southerner in my early twenties and last week became the proud caretaker of 4 one-week-old chicks: 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Plymouth Barred Rock, 1 Black Australorp, and 1 Americauna. As one might expect, I've been doting on them nearly non-stop since!
I'm excited...