This is Griselda Blanco (left), our Columbian Wyandotte. Griselda was a Columbian drug lord so I couldn't pass up naming our "Columbian" chicken after her!
This is actually a huge help. I will have both of my daughters read this when I get home to help them understand how to interact with the chicks. They're both pretty mature and responsible, so I don't envision any issues.
Next question, when is it okay to take them outside to explore in an...
We're bringing home our first four or five chicks tomorrow. With two daughters, 13 and 11, they will want to hold and play with them as soon as possible. How soon after bringing them them home is it okay to start handling them? Read quite a bit but haven't seen this question answered. Thanks...
We're getting baby chicks in the next few days after we stopped to get propane at the country store the other day, and my 13 year old daughter saw the baby chicks and decided that we had to have them, and my wife agreed.
We have a storage area behind our house that I'm hoping to convert to a...
Thanks for the replies. We are working on figuring out the chicken coop right now as well, and hope to get a lot of it done this weekend. Of course, if it's anything like every other project around here one project leads to another, which leads to another...
So, I stopped in at the country store a few days ago with my 13 year old daughter to refill propane, and they had baby chicks. Somehow we went from buying propane to baby chicks. We didn't actually buy any that day, but she was able to talk is into getting some.
We live in a neighborhood on...