WooHooo Cackle! Got 100 Frypan Special and 25 EE's in from them today. Nice mixture of colors in both orders. All big, plump, active, alert, healthy chicks. Eating and drinking well. Beautiful chickie babies.
Congratz smfildes...ya beat me to it. Best wishes for a great hatch!
If there will be another batch of these available for shipping early next week I would love to speak up for them now. If so crfarm please let me know and I'll send payment. Thanks!
Ok Charm...great looking eggs. Would love to have these in our bator next weekend when we are starting our own EE eggs! So...payment sent. Thank you very much!
In our old coop/run we had a couple hens (one at a time) hatch their own chicks. There was a roo or two (and...I know it's a no-no...but *shrug* a tom turkey). Never lost a chick.
Last season we incubated out chicks from our flock's eggs and integrated them into the main flock at about ten...
We decided we needed more nest boxes for the Girls...the next day I came home from work to have Honey show me what he'd come up with. I thought it was awesome!
Our broodiez think so, too! We had 5 hens peacefully share and brood a drawer full this summer.
It proved even greater after the...
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Are you sure?...cuz ours sure get something like that when I show up without treats!
And, yes, we do feed meat.
That's not mad chicken disease...
its called Spoiled Chicken Disease. I think most of us have that tho
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The rib cage sounds like a good idea. I assume you put it in their run skinned and not cooked.
In their run unless they're closed in because of weather, then it goes in the coop. Raw...yes. And pretty well cleaned up. Humans are still at the top of the FuzzyFarm...
Hi from MN (zone 3) and welcome to BYC! We started with a coop close to that size--about 6x8 plus a fenced run--but had more birds than that. It isn't insulated but built old-school from heavy, rough cut lumber. Long, well pitched metal roof-- A-framish. Low ceiling: great for holding heat but...