I am looking for tips and advice on how to keep my chick's water cold. I've got 5 10-week old chicks, and I use a rain barrel water system with PVC pipe and water cups running into my chicken coop- it's a small TSC coop if that makes any difference. Right now, I've just been buying bags of ice...
I'm debating on what the best type of flooring to put in my chicken run. It was grass at first, but I was worried about it getting muddy. I'm in the Southampton, VA area and while we don't get much snow, it gets pretty rainy, and temps right now for spring range from lows in the 30s to anywhere...
😅😬 it's me again, hi all! I posted about the same chick when she was 2 weeks old, now she's 4 weeks old, and her feathers still baffle me. This time I came out to see that something weird was going on with the feathers around her neck. They have a brooder plate in their coop that stays on the...
I'm debating if I should let my 3 week old chicks spend the night in their coop tonight with the heat lamp through the window or if it's still way too soon. They're getting so cramped inside the house 😢. It's a beautiful sunny 70 degrees today, with a low of 48 degrees and no rain/no heavy...
One of my 2 week old ISA Brown chicks is the smallest out of my 5 girls. 1 other ISA Brown and 3 Rhode Island Reds, all 2 weeks old. But my smallest girl, I started calling her Butterball, hasn't grown any tail feathers! And her wings are slower growing in too. Whereas everyone else is growing...
Hi all, I'm in the Southampton, VA area. I have Fox Pest Control come out every couple months to treat my yard for pests, and they say what they use is animal friendly. I've got dogs that roam all over the backyard and sometimes my cats think they belong outside. Non-issue there, BUT I'm new to...
I posted about this in the new members forum, but I wanted to post this in the most appropriate place for the full advice effect. I've never owned chicks or any birds before. I bought week old chicks (3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 ISA Browns) 5 days ago from Tractor Supply. Everyone was doing great...
Hi everyone!
I'm new here and very new to being a chicken mom! I just got my first flock of 6 chicks a few days ago from Tractor Supply. I was told they were about a week old, so they're 1 wk 5 days old today.
I chose 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 ISA Browns for their temperament, personalities...