Hej!
After my mysterious mishaps with home-hatched chicks (see my other post from a month ago), my mother hen has happily adopted my bought day-old chicks and they are now big and feathered (they are Brahma chicks and the mother hen is a Dwarf hen, so they are almost as big as her now!) and old...
Hello!
My newly hatched chicks just all died within 12 hrs and I'm trying to figure out why! I'll start with a little history of my flock because it might give some clues, but if you want to skip to the actual symptoms of the chicks, skip the following passage.
I started keeping chickens last...
Hello everyone!
I am a new backyard farmer in Sweden and this summer also started my chicken adventure with a little flock. I have a rooster and a pullet of a mixed dwarf breed and two pullets of a Swedish heirloom breed. They lived in a tractor all summer, but moved into a coop in the barn a...