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Turkeys are an interesting thought. Might have to do a little research on that. As for grow pen for Silkie babies, if I did hardware cloth around the bottom I suppose it would hold a lot. Another good idea. Any non-bird thoughts?

I made a fully enclosed wire pen 8ft x 16ft with a 4ft x 8ft coop last year for a flock of Sussex chickens. We downsized our flock and changed breeds to focus on Silkies, and are in the process of building a series of smaller, more mobile chicken tractors for breeding pairs. As a result, the old...

So probably not the whole flock then (have 18), just this particular one?

I wish I had known what was about to happen so I could have gotten a video of it. One of my chickens just hopped up on the wire wall of their pen about three feet up and proceeded to climb the rest of the eight foot height by flapping non-stop for lift and walking up the wall foot over foot to...

The chick got worse and was unable to do anything but lay on it's side. We euthanized it. Likely we came on the scene too late in this case.

We have 19 Speckled Sussex chicks that are 2 weeks old. They hatched and were shipped on a Wednesday and arrived on a Friday. They were alert and healthy on arrival, and everything has gone really well so far. This morning my wife found one of the chicks laying on her back. The chick seemed...

We are buying our first rural property (house with 4 acres) and excited to get some chickens in a couple months. My family had some chickens when I was a kid, but I was raised to believe they were mean and to stay away. Watching how a friend's kids made pets out of their laying hens has given...