For a few years, every spring when I got new chicks, I kept the young pullets in a rabbit hutch on a porch in a fenced-in yard until they were old enough to go to the hen house. They were only there for a month or so. Fast forward 3 years, and I now have a litter of 4 week old puppies that need...
I have 10 young barred rock hens and one rooster that I hatched at the same time this spring (late April, I think). The hens are just starting to lay well (8-9 per day now), and one of the hens has started pecking the feathers off of one other hen and the rooster. This morning I saw her actually...
I have 10 young barred rock hens and one rooster that I hatched at the same time this spring (late April, I think). The hens are just starting to lay well (8-9 per day now), and one of the hens has started pecking the feathers off of one other hen and the rooster. This morning I saw her actually...
I have 26 7-week old barred rocks that I hatched. This is my first venture at hatching; I usually buy day-old hens. I am new at this, so I don't know which are hens and which are roosters. They are all in the same pen, and I'm still feeding chick starter. I need to know: 1) when to start feeding...