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If anyone with constantly crying banties ever searches this thread, I have to update with what I think *might* have been the problem- The special crumbled food we bought was still TOO BIG for the little guys! My daughter had been grinding it up even more and they'd eat what they could, but it...

Oh, the stuffed animal is a good idea. I give all of the brooder babies a fuzzy horseshoe shaped pillow that turns out to be well used and loved by the end of six weeks (one pillow per brooder, not per chicken- I wrote that wrong) and these guys are without. Now, if only I hadn't insisted we...

Morganton? My parents used to live in Morganton, right on the Broughton grounds. I digress. Yes, two different thermometers have confirmed temps in each brooder. I took ginormous chicken's advice and moved the little box that the banties will be calling home for the nite and so far they've...

Should I take their box temp up over 100? It's near 100 now and I'm worried I'll roast them.

It's our second year with chickens. Last year my daughter came with me to the feed store to pick out our babies and of course we think they are the funniest, smartest and most beautiful chickens ever hatched. This year I ordered the heritage varieties I wanted instead of picking out of the "grab...