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We have 16 hens (and a rooster) - 6 barred rocks, 6 easter eggers, and 4 welsummers. They were born in August and are about 14 weeks currently if my calculations are right . . . So obviously we're not expecting any eggs yet, but are contemplating the pros and cons of adding supplemental light...

We have our 1 month old chicks outside in a huge brooder/coop with a wire floor topped with about 10 inches of pine shavings (and yes, before you ask, it has a roof and a heat lamp). It was a great setup until this past week when we had rain every single day. Their bedding is getting kind of...

I live in an area where hawks are . . . abundant. We are trying to design our run and are really wanting to avoid netting the top if possible. We'd like to do some pasture rotating and so the fence line will be changing often. Many sources I'm seeing say to just offer a place where the chickens...

Just to clarify, there are a total of 18 chicks that were a day old, not chicks that are 18 days old.

Long story short, received 18 day-old chicks day before yesterday and yesterday one started laying around with its eyes closed, pooping white diarrhea, and refusing to eat or drink. We've been doing a lot of researching since then and the only thing that seems to match up with symptoms is...

18 (3 extra!) little ladies arrived this morning and we're in love with them. So far it seems they all survived the journey and are now enjoying their brooder, which I have plans for improving over the next week. It's like when we brought our newborns home.. I keep thinking they've died, but...

This is the exact setup I was planning, actually. I hadn't considered the potential issue of ants. Let me know if you find anything that gets rid of them!

How often do you get new chicks, and at what ages do you harvest them when doing this method?

Thanks for this! Definitely will consider.

We're planning out how best to maximize our backyard space for homesteading and what with the laying flock we have already purchased and the size of garden we want, that leaves us with very little space for raising our own meat source which is also important to us. We have either enough space...

Hey all, we are moving into my moms home and building up a mini homestead in her larger backyard while we are there. It's a pretty rural place out in the Blue Ridge mountains. She is okay with us getting chickens, so we ordered some day-old chicks to arrive the first weekend of August (it'll be...

Next month my family and I are moving back to my hometown in western North Carolina from our current home in the Denver metro area. We have been limping along here without a yard of our own for a while but it is becoming harder and harder to be away from the country, especially now that we have...