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Haha! Very true! As a native, I'm used to it. I went to school in northern Indiana--froze for 4 years and swore I'd never live north of Georgia again. I've held to it for the most part. But boy is it a pain with chickens! :)

Ah. Lucky you. I live in southwest Florida. Coccidia is everywhere. Even if I put my chicks in a place in my backyard where adult chickens have never been, I have to introduce them carefully and slowly to the ground. And I have to completely sanitize my 3-6 week brooder coops between every new...

My only concern for 4 week old chicks is their susceptibility to coccidiosis. I would be sure to introduce them to all the bacteria in your main chicken yard slowly and continue offering medicated feed to the littles. That's the only problem I've encountered when integrating my younger chicks...

My hens are the only wall I use for my broodies. The mama hens are a formidable wall, let me tell you! At the moment I have 5 mama hens with a total of 15 bitties from 1 - 3 weeks old running around my chicken yard. I have 2 roosters and almost 20 other hens with them. No one messes with the...

I have all sorts of aged chickens integrated in a variety of ways, including three 2-week olds who were brooded by their mama hen, eight 5-week olds who were hatched in my incubator, several 3-4 month olds (bought a couple weeks ago), and 15 or so 6-month-old to 2-year-old hens with my 2...