I make greeting cards for sending out to family and friends using the tiny feathers and the down feathers I find laying around. First I print a hen or rooster outline on card stock, then I dab a tiny layer of glue (using the kind that comes with a beveled rubber cap, like we used in school in...
If you look at it this way, in the primitive days, hens raised their chicks without any extra help from the farmers. Chicks followed momma hen who showed them what, and what not, to eat. They ate what she ate and then some (because babies, no matter what species, put things in their mouth...
I usually let the hens sit on, hatch and raise their own chicks in our general population enclosed run (carport converted to chicken run/pens) where we have built a coop situated underneath (zoom in at the doorway on 1st pic and you’ll see what I’m describing), for added protection from our...