moving chicks

This is my first time ever owning chickens, I didn't expect a broody hen until spring not to mention her to be successful. My girl has had a nest for almost 3 weeks and her eggs are in different stages of development. They appear to range from day 9 to day 19, this is normal right? Especially...

This is my first time raising baby chicks, though not my first time having chickens. We have had our chicks now for just over three weeks and they are doing great. everything I read says to wait 6-10 weeks before moving them outside full time...but that seems to be because they won’t be able to...

Hi All, I have two relatively new female Indian Runner Ducks and was advised to let them sit on their eggs as they came from a flock with a few males. They have been sat on them for around 28 days and they started hatching today. They are in an adapted chicken coup in a large fenced area that...

I know the usual coop age is 4-6 weeks, but I've been hearing of people getting them out at 3 weeks or even younger successfully with heating, which we do have. We have 2 pullets who will be turning 4 weeks on Wednesday and another 2 that will be around 2 weeks on Wednesday. They are all...

Today we let the two broodys out for the first time with their 4 one week old babies. One broody is a Japanese bantam and the other is half D’Uccle/half LF. They did very well outside for several hours. It was very nice weather. They had spent the chicks first week in a tiny coop (no run)...

I'm sure this has been asked 1,000,000 times but I'm new and a little overwhelmed finding specific help. A few days ago I bought 9 7-8 week chicks. I believed they were coop ready, but found out AFTER I purchased them that they were still on the heat lamp :hitmostly at night. I don't know the...

Hi! I have a hen setting on 14 eggs. She’s preferable to the laying box that happens to be about 2 feet off the ground. I’d prefer not to move her now, the eggs are due to hatch in about a week. What should I do about getting the checks down to a safe height once they’re born? Once the eggs...