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Frosty thanks again for your reply.
I am placing an order with efowl and the chicks have a delivery date for May 17th. I am planning on using a playpen with a cardboard box bottom in my laundry room for my brooder. Hopefully it will work, I have looked at all of the brooder pics on BYC and think that it seems logical. I am lucky and the former property owner left a lot of baby chick feeders and waterers so that is a couple less things that I will need to buy. Actually the coop is pretty well set up with nesting boxes a large wall mounted feeder and a roost. All it needs is a little elbow grease and bleach water (just in case).
Rooster0209 - I was very excited to see that you raise guineas as well as chickens. I am little concerned about the tick population on our property and every biological remedy site that I found said the best way to get rid of ticks is to get guineas. I probably shouldn't be as concerned as I am but being from south west Wyoming I am used to arrid conditions and not many bugs of any kind. I don't know if I will get guineas this year, but it is definitely something I am going to look into in the future.
I am placing an order with efowl and the chicks have a delivery date for May 17th. I am planning on using a playpen with a cardboard box bottom in my laundry room for my brooder. Hopefully it will work, I have looked at all of the brooder pics on BYC and think that it seems logical. I am lucky and the former property owner left a lot of baby chick feeders and waterers so that is a couple less things that I will need to buy. Actually the coop is pretty well set up with nesting boxes a large wall mounted feeder and a roost. All it needs is a little elbow grease and bleach water (just in case).
Rooster0209 - I was very excited to see that you raise guineas as well as chickens. I am little concerned about the tick population on our property and every biological remedy site that I found said the best way to get rid of ticks is to get guineas. I probably shouldn't be as concerned as I am but being from south west Wyoming I am used to arrid conditions and not many bugs of any kind. I don't know if I will get guineas this year, but it is definitely something I am going to look into in the future.