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I'd love to order food online if I could get the smaller bags! Anybody have a good source in Canada? Although in the wild, baby birds eat what the older birds eat... they don't have a special diet and they do fine. I imagine it's the same for our birds and that we just fuss a bit too much...

Could you isolate the pullet in a dog crate, near the lamp? See, that's the problem: I don't have a dog crate and can't afford $90 to buy one. Plus the coop is built in a way that the heat lamp wouldn't be enough for everyone I know it is hard to be patient with babies, but they will only...

I'd brave it out and keep them in the coop in their corner under the heat lamp but I have a young half-naked scared (re: roo-abused) pullet that needs to be kept from the flock's pecking, and she hogs the heat lamp and terrifies the silkie chicks - that's why I brought them inside... They seem...

They are 8 weeks old and I can see their blue skin through their light fluff around the neck, belly, and under the wings...

So this morning I put them in one of our spare bathrooms with tiled heated floors (dogs will have to drink elsewhere!). Oh my god they stink. Well their poop stinks - they spilled water on both towels I laid out for them and then pooped on them and keep tipping their food bowls - gaaaah! I...

It's -5C (23F), even with the heat lamp on in the partly-insulated coop my two baby silkies looked miserably cold. Our new young pullet that's in the sectioned-off portion of the coop with them has been blocking their access to food and water all day, they're terrified of her (she needs to be...