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We are very new to raising chickens. We have 4 Black Sex Links that we've raised since 10 days old. They just started laying in early July. The coop is 16 square feet and the run is 40 square feet. They spend several hours free ranging in our fenced back yard on most days. They usually don't...

We are totally new to chickens and just brought our girls home last Sunday. We have 4 black sex links that are 15 days old today. We have them in a brooder outside and I'm so worried about them being at a comfortable temperature. Our brooder is a plywood box with a flip-top lid that we only open...

Last Sunday, we loaded up the kids and took a little road trip to go pick up our chicks from a nearby farm. We brought home 4 Black Sex Links. I'm totally new to chickens so I was really nervous about bringing them home. It was a freezing day and I was so worried that they were going to be too...

We're picking up our chicks tomorrow! We're getting 4 black sex links that are about 1 week old from a farm about 1 hour 45 minutes away. How do I keep them warm enough on the ride home? We will be using a small pet carrier to bring them home.

I am buying 4 RIR chicks from a local farm that are due to hatch this weekend. This is will be my first chicken adventure so I'm feeling a bit nervous. We were planning on brooding them in a plastic tub in our guest bathroom but DH read about how stinky and messy they can be so suddenly we're...

**Updates on page 2** A while back I got this crazy idea that we should get some chickens. I'm always trying to "expand my horizons" and my poor hubby is just along for the ride. After some reading and a lot of time on BYC, we decided to take the plunge. We're planning on 4 chickens, probably...

Let me preface this by saying I am totally new to chickens. We have kids playhouse that we'll be converting into a chicken coop, although I still stalk Craigslist for sheds that might work better. I'd like to get about 4 chickens, most likely Buff Orpingtons and/or Rhode Island Reds. We're...

A couple months ago, I got this crazy idea that we should get chickens. I checked out a couple books from the library figuring that I would learn a few things, lose interest and then move on to something else. Now both of my kids (4 and 2) walk up to complete strangers and tell them that we're...