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I know the feeling. I used to know all this like the back of my hand but now I can't even remember at how many weeks to move them from the brooder to the coop.

What age do you prefer to move your chicks from brooder to coop? I won't be integrating with any other chickens, so my only concern is temperatures. We're currently 70s-80s during the day and 50s at night.

Ok, lol, looks like the dogs will be eating good today. At least by their standards!

I've got two chickens that I thought were not laying. But today I found a secret stash of 13 eggs between them. I've done the water float test and 7 of them were too old and will go to the dogs. 3 of them tested as fresh and 6 as being at the one week mark. Those 6 are the ones in question...

It is locked now. I'm down to just a couple of chickens because something recently killed the rest of them. A different neighbor told me she thought it was dogs belonging to these same people with the kids. So,,,grrr. But it's locked up tight now.

Well, when I get more next spring. The ones I had met their demise recently from some heathen critter.

No, that's the one thing I can't really do where I live. Perhaps...maybe I could let them out for like an hour before sunset or just as the sun comes up, lol.

Yes, I'm putting this in here because as far as I'm concerned these kids are predators and pests! Dang it, now I've got a headache. We have some neighbors that I don't know too well. For the most part, things are quiet enough over there but at least twice a month they get inundated with...

I recently merged two flocks and used all the tricks they say to use and it still did not go well. The chickens were grown and had lived right next to each other for months and months and months. The only thing separating them was some chicken wire. They would even sit next to each other with...

Thank you for this - very informative!

I have always been told that feeding grains to chickens raises their body temperature. So I've always been mindful of giving more scratch in the cold months and less during the hot months. How many of you follow this same rule of thumb? I read a blog tonight that said they had taken to giving...

They are all 3 growing and seem active enough. They're eating and drinking. The swelling in their crops went down but didn't go away. Their crops are still too large but are soft and squishy feeling. The 2 that I think are white rock crosses aren't really growing any feathers on their butts...

I would definitely separate any that are acting sick and medicate the whole brood.

I don't know. I do know I have raised chicks both ways - giving grit and not giving grit and I've never had any problems either way. Some people say they really need it, others say they don't.

Well I don't know what it was but it had stopped this morning. I think it had to have been their little bodies trying to process and break down all the yuck coming out from their stopped up little crops.

All's well still. Their crops are slowly but continuously going down in size. When I first got them they were swollen so badly they were hard and their skin was stretched tight and red. Now their crops are still swollen, but soft and mushy - and much smaller than before. They are very...

Yes, poop seems fairly normal to me. Hopefully they won't be sizzling in the morning....

I would put the chickens apart from one another until they are well. Put both medications in the water for each of them.

Can you post a picture?

I would be afraid one has coccidosis and the other pneumonia. I would separate them as they could be contagious to each other and medicate them both with Corrid and Duramycin-10. It goes in their water. You can buy both of those at TSC or any other similar store I would think. I get mine at TSC.