When there’s so much snow on the ground, our chickens spend a lot of time hanging out inside our house. But when the snow is so deep, we have to shovel the snow to create a path for them to walk.
In the cold winter, our chicks like to come inside the house to stay warm. Some of them like to hang out in front of the wood stove to warm up. Shantie and Sophie spent quite bit of time at the same spot preening and soaking in the heat from the wood stove.
Despite our best efforts, we seem to lose one to two chickens per year to illness or predators, so we’ve been on a schedule of about three baby chicks every second year, and this year we got the five chicks described in previous posts, after an unusually high loss rate in spring and early summer….
An outdoor pen for chicks should satisfy several goals: 1) it gives the curious, active, growing birds a chance to explore and practice free-range foraging; 2) it protects them from daytime predators such as housecats and possibly ravens, magpies, and small hawks; 3) it’s cheap, simple, and easy to move to a new location each day;…
A few years ago when we first brought a set of three chicks on the road with us, it was out of necessity. We didn’t have any good options for their care, and the birds were too young to be left on their own for two weeks. We weren’t sure how they would cope with…
After the tragic loss of Becky, Peter created a new cover for the baby box. It has a smaller opening in the middle, so that we can reach inside without removing the whole cover. Now Shantie and Sophie are able to nap in more secure nursery.
We had a terrible accident this morning. We were busy preparing our breakfast at that moment. Coco, one of our hens, who was visiting inside the house jumped into the baby chicks’ box, and started wolfing down the baby food. I noticed the commotion with the baby chicks and removed Coco from the box as…
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