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Our girls are about three weeks old. DH is constructing their "permanent" run (ie - not the tractor) this week. We have a 12'x6'x'6 chain link dog kennel that they will be going in, with a chain-link top. Would you reinforce the chain link with another material like chicken wire or hardware...

My chicks arrived last Tuesday in great shape. No one had pasty butts, everyone was energetic and ate and drank right up. Four chicks are growing fast, one is still tiny. Sunday I noticed the tiny one had a large (VERY LARGE) amount of poop pasted to her butt. I couldn't get it off, so had...

We have a small flock of five chicks, still just a few days old. They will have a coop and run outside that is permanent, but I'd also like something cheap, easy, and portable so we can move them around with us in the summer. This would be mostly supervised time (me or DH gardening or playing...

These cuties arrived yesterday from www.mypetchicken.com. They are so fluffy and were in much better shape (very spunky and sweet) than I expected for newly hatched chicks who just made a journey across the country. Three Rhode Island Reds and two Barred Plymouth Rocks.

DH and I built our coop (actually refurb'd an old dog house). It has a front door that opens to a little ramp, and the roof opens for cleaning and gathering eggs (I know not ideal to approach from the top, but funds are limited). It will sit on four cinder blocks. My question is about the...

Mazomanie, WI passed an ordinance this week specifically allowing a household to have four chickens, no roosters, in village limits. Previous ordinances prohibited farm animals. Some people kept chickens as "pets".