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We have a chicken tractor styled coop/run. The floor of the run is dirt, pine shavings in the coop. About once a week I am mixing around the pine shavings and adding a little bit of fresh on top. I also throw in some scratch to let the chicks do some of the work as well. However the last couple...

We are having 75-80 degree weather, chicken coop will be finished this weekend. We are having a problem with a chicken plucking feathers off my other two, so I was thinking maybe if I started putting them in the run during the day, they might have more to keep them occupied, thus less plucking...

so once they draw blood - then what? can I reintroduce chick back once she has healed? or is this going to be a permanent problem?

okay,posted earlier about one of my chicks losing feathers - after observing today, it looks like one of my other chicks IS pecking her. so now I know she needs to be seperated, but how do I do that with just 3 chicks? Do I seperate the attacker or the victim? And can they be all alone in a...

I have not witnessed any pecking. She actually seems to be the most aggressive of the bunch. Do you think she should be seperated? She peeps awful loud if we take her away from the others

she is with two other chicks, who both look fine.

My 4 week old black sex link has been replacing her down with feathers - but now has spots on her body (chest, back near the tail and under wings) where the feathers have fallen out and they look bare. She is eating and drinking fine - but she looks really awful. Can anyone give me any advice on...

We are new at this too - and we started with three chicks. I think the first 2 days I was constantly doing "dead-chick" checks throughout the day - always tapping on the brooder if one was sleeping funny or seemed "too still". I felt like when my baby's were newborns and I'd check them while...

I have three chicks - and when we reach into the brooder they all scatter and we have to grab for them. There is no walking up and on to our hands. Once they are in our hands 2/3 chicks can be calmed and seem to enjoy being held, but one seems really freaked and flaps her wings, she has a hard...

I have three one week old chicks. One of my chicks is chasing another one around, pecking at her and trying to get food before her. She's been doing it since last night, and only to this one specific chic. Is it something I should worry about?

what is the top of your brooder like? how does it hold the cat? I'm hoping to move the brooder out to my screened in porch in another week or so, but worried the cat with somehow make its way in. They don't stick their paws through?

can I just put a plate of sand in their brooder and replenish as needed?

I'm in CA and its been in the mid-60s during the day, mid 40s at night.

If you let I chicks roam out in the grass and near my children's sandbox - do I still need to provide commercial grit along with their food - or are they getting what they need from the yard?

my cat must have slipped under the chicken wire top of our brooder last night while we were reading to the kids - heard loud "PEEP PEEP PEEP" ran out and saw baby chick head coming out of cat's mouth. Scared the cat, and she dropped the chick. She is fine except for a small wound on top of her...

I have 3 one week old chicks in a large rubbermaid (85qt). We have chicken wire zip tied over the top (to protect from toddlers + cat). Wondering if this size brooder will last us until they can go out to the coop? Our house is very small so I'm not super keen on the idea of having a larger...

thank you! I believe they are happy peeps

So I have 3 chicks, 1 week old (I think), and the temp is around 90. They seem happy, are walking around, sleeping (but don't seem to be too huddled, or too pressed to the edges) but they are making a lot of peeping noises. I read somewhere that they let you know they are too cold/hot with peeps...

We are now the proud parents of 3 new baby chicks, one black sex link and 2 Delawares. They are only a week old, so still in brooder but I have been taking them out to the grass w/me when the kids go outside since its been so warm. My cat however, is looking at them like lunch. For now, I've...