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(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes!!! They are 7 weeks old now.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 5

(3) What breeds do you have? We’re not really sure.

(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? Watching my kids and the chickens interact with each other, and just watching our chicks !

Hi everyone! I’m Happy to find a website that is kinda like a chicken almanac of all things you want to learn. I have a few questions that maybe you can help me with!

I tried to sprout organic wheat berries that I bought but all 3 batches didn’t work out. So does anyone have a good source of seeds or grains you buy that have worked for you in your fodder growing experience?

Also, what do you do to make sure your chickens aren’t bored in their run? The kids and I go in there with them and will feed them meal worms and kitchen scraps but I wonder if anyone else has some good ideas of what to put in there or have for them that makes it more fun or that their chickens like? We do have a chicken swing and a xylophone but I haven’t seen them use either yet. Maybe they’re just still too little ?

And one last thing, we have one white chicken that is smaller than the rest of our flock (she is the sweetest one). She always get pushed aside when we are feeding them and she ends up just kinda in the background. Is there anything we can do to help with this? When they were all really little, she would lay be herself a lot too but now they all seem to huddle together for the most past.

Thank you all for reading and I hope everyone’s chickens are flying around happy and healthy !
 
Varabtbb said:
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes!!! They are 7 weeks old now.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 5

(3) What breeds do you have? We’re not really sure.

(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? Watching my kids and the chickens interact with each other, and just watching our chicks !

Hi everyone! I’m Happy to find a website that is kinda like a chicken almanac of all things you want to learn. I have a few questions that maybe you can help me with!

I tried to sprout organic wheat berries that I bought but all 3 batches didn’t work out. So does anyone have a good source of seeds or grains you buy that have worked for you in your fodder growing experience?

Also, what do you do to make sure your chickens aren’t bored in their run? The kids and I go in there with them and will feed them meal worms and kitchen scraps but I wonder if anyone else has some good ideas of what to put in there or have for them that makes it more fun or that their chickens like? We do have a chicken swing and a xylophone but I haven’t seen them use either yet. Maybe they’re just still too little ?

And one last thing, we have one white chicken that is smaller than the rest of our flock (she is the sweetest one). She always get pushed aside when we are feeding them and she ends up just kinda in the background. Is there anything we can do to help with this? When they were all really little, she would lay be herself a lot too but now they all seem to huddle together for the most past.

Thank you all for reading and I hope everyone’s chickens are flying around happy and healthy !
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Hello and welcome to BYC! :frowGlad you joined.

I have never grown fodder. No help there.

Chickens like to jump/fly up on branches and other objects to perch. I have collected old wood stools and chairs out for trash pick up and put them in the pen or run and my birds like to hang out on these. Find some stumps of differing heights and diameters and make an arrangement with them for perching on and digging around. Lean a free wood pallet up against the run wall. Put a thick layer of wood chips (can get for free at many municipalities), dried leaves, dried pine needles or a combination of any dry organic material you can find. They love to scratch around in dry organic material.

The little white pullet might be a leghorn. They are petite and tend to be on the flighty/skittish side but that is not necessarily a bad thing. It gives them predator awareness. And like it or not, someone will be at the bottom of the pecking order. As long as she is not being ostracized, let them work things out.
 

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