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Thanks for your reply. Been watching the others, and they all seem to be okay.

Suggestions please: I have eleven 7-week old chicks living in grow-out pen in garage. Found one dead this morning, with no previous indications of any issues. They all seemed perfect last night, and garage temp ranges from 60-75 over the course of the day/night. Only thing I can think of...

For my ramp I used a 2"x12", painted both sides and edges with exterior paint. I then sprinkled sand and small pebbles on the top side, painted top side again, sprinkled more sand and pebbles, painted again, etc. Repeated this about 4 times. Result is basically like a stucco finish that has...

In addition to the cost of replacing the chicks, assuming that they sell their eggs, can the OP also charge for the lost income from the eggs that he would've been able to sell?

Thanks for the responses. We've been having some snow dustings the last couple of days, and I've been trying to find their footprints in the snow to see if I can isolate how they're getting in, but haven't had any luck. That leads me to believe that they're living in the coop/run somewhere, but...

So, I researched for probably a year before building my coop/run, and I have always thought it was as secure as Ft. Knox. The floor has hardware cloth, all of the walls are hardware cloth, all of the windows and vents are hardware cloth, all of the trim is caulked, etc. Never had any issues...

Where I live we call it concrete sand, and I've seen it at Home Depot many times. I would think that river sand would work fine, also. It will have little pebbles in it that the chickens will use for grit. You don't want the playground sand; it's too fine. Also, depending on how much of it...

Last week, we had a hen that we confirmed was broody by taking her out of the nest several times at night and putting her on the roost, only to see her immediately run back to the nest. Took her out of the primary coop and put her in a wire dog kennel in my garage for 3 full days, then put her...

We sold some eggs a few days ago, and the customer told me that she hard-boiled 4 of the eggs at the same time, and took them out at the same time. Once she peeled them, one of the eggs' white had changed to a tannish-brown color; the other 3 were still perfectly white. In researching this...

Still not sure what breed ours is.

Thanks for your reply, Crysta. She skipped another day after I initially posted my question, so ended up skipping 4 straight days. Ended up laying a small one yesterday, finally, but it was still a very small egg. We will continue to watch her for any odd behavior, but she's still acting like...

Hello everyone. We have three chicks that just started laying over the past month. The first one, a Red Star has only missed one or two days since she began laying on December 27th. Our second Red Star has only missed one day of laying since she began on January 3rd. Our most recent chick to...

I have made several version of these waterers: I have a 5-gallon bucket version that I use in the summer that has 3/4" pvc coming out of the bottom of the bucket, to an elbow, to another piece of 3/4" pvc that is 4 feet long. I have 4 nipples on that piece of pvc. The pvc is black, so the...

Similar to what someone else earlier in the thread posted, my chicks were not going into the coop at night because it was so dark. They would sleep whereever the last bit of sunlight was in the run. I put a 100W red incandescent bulb on a dimmer switch and a timer so that it turns on just...

I think that is pretty good advice, and something that we hadn't considered. I totally agree also with you about it being tougher for us than it probably is for them. I think we may've just had a new development here, though. My wife and I had just been talking about a good sign that we'd...

Well, since we didn't receive any advice on how long we should leave the bullies separated to the brooder, we took them out after two days and put them back in the main coop/run with the young'uns and the other three older chicks. They immediately went back to being bullies to the new chicks...

Had a warm day today, so took a few hours off work this afternoon to try to get back into the integration process with the chicks. Since it had been a few days since we'd last tried any integration, I went back to Phase 1, young'uns in the dog kennel outside of the main coop/run. After an hour...

So, since my last post it has become too cold/windy to be able to put the new chicks outside with the older chicks. The young ones are now 7 weeks old, and the older ones are now 10 weeks. I was putting the young chicks outside in the dog kennel for soft introduction, but the older ones are...

So, yesterday I took my three youngest out of their small coop in my garage and put them in a large dog kennel outside of my big coop/run. Had it very close to the other 5 chicks, so that they could see, hear, and smell each other, but not touch each other. There was obviously a lot of...

Thanks, Bunnylady. I guess that is probably what I was hoping to hear. I have a long weekend coming up in which I'll be able to spend a lot of time with them, so I'll probably let them see/hear/smell each other the first day or two, and depending on how that goes let them actually touch each...