Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...
There’s a few things you need to know about chickens when you’re waiting for them to hatch, according to 6-year-old Theron Gough. One, it’s really fun to bang on nails when you’re building a place for ...
The new, day old baby chicks have arrived!! Elaina shares her journey of picking up her first set of baby chicks. There were several things she took into consideration when initially choosing the ...
On a small homestead, the most expensive mistake with spring chicks is not a fancy feeder or the wrong breed, it is bringing ...
Brooding baby chicks in cold weather — how low can you go? As it turns out, cold-weather brooding can go low indeed. Back in the 1950s, when the electric companies were promoting electric brooding as ...