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I started out thinking it'd be easy to find a good quality organic feed for my chicks that's free of things I'm allergic to (soy, shellfish). It's turning out a lot more difficult than I thought it'd be. New Country Organics starter I liked the convenience of their free shipping bundles, in...

The 5 quart chicken waterer that Manna Pro makes is completely inexcusable garbage. There is no way to get the base to lock like it should. I spent a lot of time fiddling with it, thinking I had it secure only to wind up drowning my chicks when the base totally let go. It's like it's designed to...

So I have chicks coming tomorrow and we have no electricity. No word on when it'll be back. We don't have a generator. Daytime temps here are in the high 80s to low 90s and it gets hotter in my garage. At night it's in the low 70s. Has anyone brooded chicks without any electricity for heat?

I am trying to figure out which breed will be best for laying eggs where I am. It gets rather hot here but we also had 1 or 2 nights where it was in the 20s this past winter. We also get a lot of intense wind and rain at times. Other times it's rather dry. My plan is for them to live in a...

My whole need for egg layers is because the farm I used to get pastured eggs from sold us some bad eggs & we wound up with food poisoning. Now that I'm researching getting my own egg layers, I need to know how to make sure the eggs are going to be safe to eat since I can't afford to keep getting...

I have had ducklings & goslings before, but I'm not sure if what chicks need is similar. When I did ducklings, they got starter/grower feed, always had water available and they did quite well. If I'm getting chicks for laying eggs when they grow up, do they need the same thing or do they also...

I have 4 86" pallets that I am thinking of using as the walls for a chicken tractor. I'm thinking of starting with 6-10 laying hens. I keep debating if I want/need a rooster or not. The pallets themselves are about 40" tall and each has a middle crossbeam that I was thinking of using as the...

I'm new here since I'm in the process of adding some chickens to my farm in south Georgia. I've had ducks & geese before when I lived up north, but have never had chickens. I've had many types of animals over the years and am looking forward to learning how to care for chickens. What I'd really...