After moving and finally settling in we decided to get chickens and wait to get chicks until we get used to raising adult hens...that didn't work out so well when we ended up buying four day-old chicks: an araucana, Rhode Island red, buff orpington and a welsummer. I am in the process of building a coop for when they're ready to be outside.
Living up around the Seattle-Tacoma area we don't get freezing/snowing winters nor really hot summers and are looking forward to when they can be outside. Two of difficulties are I travel for a living (usually gone during the week) so the rest of my family will be caring for them and our dachshund keeps going crazy when we're holding the chicks and will start to sniff them and almost try to nibble at them to eat them. Do you have an recommendations for this? A very lazy, calm dog, never bites anyone, we're hoping once they get bigger he won't have the same urges.
Anyways, we're looking forward to the lessons and experiences this brings to our family, especially our toddler.
Living up around the Seattle-Tacoma area we don't get freezing/snowing winters nor really hot summers and are looking forward to when they can be outside. Two of difficulties are I travel for a living (usually gone during the week) so the rest of my family will be caring for them and our dachshund keeps going crazy when we're holding the chicks and will start to sniff them and almost try to nibble at them to eat them. Do you have an recommendations for this? A very lazy, calm dog, never bites anyone, we're hoping once they get bigger he won't have the same urges.
Anyways, we're looking forward to the lessons and experiences this brings to our family, especially our toddler.