Thank you for the suggestions and comments.
More information:
I bought the birds last Wednesday from the farm store where they were advertised as being directly from a hatchery (don't know which one).
I'm guessing they are about two weeks old total now (most have wing feathers and some of them...
Hi All.
Background:
I finally bit the bullet and ruffled the wife's feathers with my decision to start chickens this year.
I'm a complete noob with chickens--never done it before, not even as a kid.
I bought 7 heavy breed pullets about a week ago at the local farm store.
One of them was dead...