Last night I had a fire scare so now I am going to get a Brinsea eco-glow. http://www.brinsea.com/prod-EcoGlow_Chick_Brooder-239.aspx The thing is, I need it fast. Does anyone know how long it takes to receive their Eco-glow from the Brinsea website? I'm in Arcadia (91006) if that helps. Also...
I have three one year old silkies, and I also have three three day old regular chicks. When should I put them together? I tried searching this, but the results say how to add regular chickens and regular chickens, or young silkies to older standards.
My questions are:
Should I add them when...
I have three chicks who are about three days old. However, I also wanted an australorp, which the feed store didn't have. They said that I could get one next week, but then it would be one week younger than the other three. Is that okay? Or should I just wait until next year and get an...
I had three chickens, but one turned out to be a rooster so we had to give him away. Then, our neighbor's dog killed one of the other ones, so now there is only one chicken. Will she be okay on her own? Otherwise, we were thinking about getting three more chicks. Would that be okay, or would...
I don't have chickens right now,but I want to get some soon so I am designing my coop. My question is, would two layers of chicken wire work as well as one layer of hardware cloth? Also, I'm just checking this to make sure: burying wire means making a floor out of it then covering it with dirt...