Hi StarboardLabs,
I'm brand new to this too but started off with two 3-week olds together with two 1-week olds and then a week later we got an additional two who were only a few days. They all get along great and the oldest one protects all the smaller ones, really sweet. The temperature thing...
these are 4 out of our 6 chickies. The two older girls are an Russian Orloff (Olga) and a barred rock (Henrietta). The two smaller ones are an Australop (OZ) and an americauna (Gracie), This was over a week ago and they have grown amazingly since this pic.
hi sourland, our coop will be ready next thursday! Will post some pics when they are all settled in. I'm from Australia originally so was pretty excited to have an Australorp (her name is oz) in my flock! Wonder if she will share my love of vegemite sandwiches...
Hello from Colorado!!
I'm so excited to have found this site, so much useful information. We started our little flock a little over a week ago and so far all our 6 chicks seem very content and getting along well. We have a barred rock, and russian orloff that are now 2 weeks old, an americauna...