We're going to buy 2 chicks for our 5 yr. old's b-day in early May. Is there a how to section or guide on what we need to raise these chicks and when they are ready to introduce to the other 5 chickens? Our remaining 5 laying hens are RIR and very docile.
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That's exactly what we're going to do. We only really can handle 7 where we're at so we're thinking of getting a couple of babies from TSC--is that OK. The six RIR from where the one just died came together and had been raised from birth so I'm really curious to what happen to the one that just...
Well, she didn't make it through the night, she went into the coop on her own but was dead this morning. We have 4 young children and they want to bury her so I guess we'll do that. Now we're down to 5 layers but I think we'll get two more and the kids are already excited about that.
The other...
Please don't take this the wrong way. We care about her and want to help if we can but being around livestock and farms alot (only chickens for a short time) we're not ready to go spend a bunch of money on a $10 chicken. Again, if we can help her we will but we also believe in nature running...
Her breathing is about 1 respiration every 2 seconds or 30 a minute. She just won't move, she will let you hold her normally but we have to catch her and then she is usually very alive and ready to get loose when you let her go. Now, she doesn't struggle at all. Sometimes when we were holding...
We have 6 RIR laying hens in our backyard. We've had them about 8 months and they are good egg layers, energetic and always ready to eat. One of them this morning is not eating and just standing in one place not moving with her mouth open slightly. the other ones are ignoring her and going about...