new baby chicks

  1. M

    New member

    Hello! I’m Erin and I’m new to having chickens, but have wanted to as long as I can remember. We have 16 baby chicks that will be 3 weeks old tomorrow. We have Americainas, Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Silver Laced Wyandottes, Bielefelders, and Red Stars. We also have a “mystery chick”...
  2. CrazyTownChick

    Slightly panicked: Starting to build our Coop...just got 13 Chicks!!!

    Yes, we know this is bass-ackwards; we got the cart before the horse or the chicks before the coop. Whatever. But Friday afternoon we brought home from Tractor Supply, 13 two-weekish old chicks and set them up all happy in the brooder (4 x 2.5 ft metal trough). Oh are they hilarious to watch...
  3. lanieschicks

    Hi, there!

    Good morning, everyone! I’m a first time chick mama. I will be picking up my baby chicks (barred Plymouth rock, Easter egger, olive egger, and French copper maran) next week and I’m very excited! My dad had chickens so i have been around chickens before but I’ve never raised baby chicks. I love...
  4. Dibbendu Das

    My Cotton Balls sleeping

  5. aliciaFarmer

    When to remove the "bad eggs"

    I had previously posted that my 5 month old Buff Orpington went broody just a few weeks after she started laying. I ended up purchasing 3 fertile eggs because my boys aren't old enough to facilitate such things just yet and received four eggs. I was pretty sure two were not viable but don't have...
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