Chicken Tips - Take a Tip, Leave a Tip

[BusyBlonde]

If you wear sneakers, make you double-knot the laces. Mine go crazy for them, I had to fight to get out of the pen the other day with both sneakers untied and the hens hot on my heels!!!

 

[clairabean]

Hatching chicks is almost as miraculous as giving birth to your own kids.

(What? I said almost!)

 

[potluck]

If you don't have a lot of spare time it's best to have the coop before you have the chicks - they grow FAST

 

[flspnr]

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I'm 5 feet tall. I planned my coop to be 5 feet, but forgot that the wood hangs down about 4 inches and there's going to be 2 inches of sand in the bottom, oops indeed!

 

[terrilhb]

Make sure when you go in the coop their is a way to get out.

Learned this the hard way a few times.

 

[Tanichca]

Carrying baby chicks in your jacket/apron pockets when you're doing chores really helps to socialize them and get them used to being held. (Seriously. I have a rooster that is one year old and STILL tries to crawl in my pockets!)

 

[peterlund]

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And if you wear sneakers, make sure they do not have deep traction crevices in the bottoms for another reason altogether!

 

[aoxa]

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This is a good one!

 

[peterlund]

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[TheSpiceGirls]

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Do a Google search but I'm betting that dry cleaning solvent will take it out.

I once sat in tree sap in my favorite pants. And even thought they were wash and wear, Google said that dry cleaning solvent would dissolve tree sap. So off to the cleaners they went and voila, it came out.