Have had some friends ask me about egg laying hens recently and I thought I’d give you a few bits of information about it. Hens are all about protein – their eggs are high in protein and their feathers are 85% protein, so in short they need LOTS of...
Today when I checked on the chicks I found one of them was dead. I’m not sure what happened, but I don’t think it had been very long because rigimortus hadn’t set it yet. I can only imagine that it got cold enough during the night that it was smothered, however it...
The chicks didn’t have to grow much to outgrow the box we originally had them in – we picked up small rubber tub for feed/water from the feed store and they were doing just fine in that for about a week. Meanwhile I was quickly repairing the coop. The door needed...
Today we received our first order of chicks. We ended up with 26 Black Australorps and one mystery chick. We’ll have to wait and see what it turns out to be once it gets older. We only ordered 25, but sometimes extra chicks are added to make sure they are kept warm...
