We moved our 1 month old chicks and brooder out to chicken run. The brooder door is open and has a heat light in it. At 10:00pm I checked on the chicks and they were all out of the brooder, so I put them in by hand and closed the door. It got down to 11 degrees celsius. Will they go to the...
I have 7 hens and 3 nesting boxes. They only use 1 box, there's a line up to get in to it. Boxes are identical in size,shape and material used for construction. I have taken eggs out of the THE BOX and placed them in the other 2 to entice, not a chance. Could I board up THE BOX to force them...
Not sure what happened, but all of a sudden the poop stinks. Thought I may have stepped in dog poop on the way to the coop, but I didn't. The chicks were just moved from their brooder in our house to the new coop 3 days ago. We have the chicks on a bed of pine shaving as we did in the...
Moved our 28 day old chicks out of the brooder inside our house to the new coop outside. Brooder size area sectioned off with the heat lamp over head, rest of the area with food and water is radiant heat at room temperature. We have the chicks on a bed of pine shavings as we had in the in...
1st time chicken owners. Our 18 chicks were hatched on March 14th am. we picked them up later that day. The unsexted clutch consist of pure Ameraucanas and Ameraucana crosses.