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Yep….win, win all the way!!

I don’t ever worry about feeding according to production, gender, or age. My tiny chicks get a bag of Starter….the smallest bag I can find….and when it’s gone they get what the rest of the flock gets, either All Flock or Grower. We are in a pretty rural area (the nearest TSC is a 50 mile drive...

Under a broody hen, they go without eating or drinking from sundown to sunup. So do mine using Mama Heating Pad. But since my choice for brooding chicks is brooding them exactly like she does (except she moves around and their heating pad doesn’t) that may seem a little uncomfortable for many...

I just put them in the run because I wanted the brooder to be spacious, I wanted the adults to be able to walk openly all the way around it, and our run was a hoop mostly wrapped in tough, mesh-reinforced plastic - think greenhouse. If I could have achieved all of that in my coop, they’d have...

I give them a day or two in the house to make sure they are eating, drinking, and know where to go to get warm, and to watch them for hatching or shipping stress, then out they go. I use a big x-pen I used to use during my dog showing days and set it up out in the run. We cut two openings in it...