Please bear with me, it's been a couple of years since I hatched my own chicks so I'm a bit out of practice when it comes to dealing with them. I have a chick that is three days old, I happened to notice today that he is much smaller than the other chicks, like hasn't grown at all, and also had...
I'm in! Actually I set them yesterday since I had eggs that I received earlier in the week and I really didn't want to chance waiting another day and a half.
In the bator I have:
15 BBS Orpingtons (from Slackwater)
14 lavender Orpingtons
8 BLRW from my hen
5 EE from my other hen
Filled the...
Oh, I like this idea a lot. Here in MN greenhouses without supplemental heat are more of a season extender rather than a year-around solution. What do you think of letting the chickens run in the greenhouse in the winter when it's too cold to grow things then having a separate "summer run" for...
Hello and greetings!
First let me introduce myself, I'm from Minnesota. I've raised chickens for about 10 years now. I used to frequent the forums here as "MNchicken", I tried to log in with that username and couldn't retreive my password. Anyway that was a few years ago so I guess it's...