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Here is where we will document the happenings with our hens!
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When we brought the baby chicks home, they were living for 2 days out of the egg shell. According to the reading we were doing, this means they were still absorbing the contents of the egg. So for their first 2 days in this world, they maintained life that way. Now, we needed to get…
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As first time chicken owners, we had no idea there were different feeds for different stages of life. Sure it makes sense, but until you own chickens, you never think about the types of nutrients they need at different stages of development. We found that most store brands of feed will advertise a starter feed…
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Since we are novice chick parents, we didn’t know to expect this after one week of life! Watch this! If you are familiar with raising chicks, you won’t bat an eye to this behavior, but newbies like us took time to realize it’s their attempt at a dust bath. For those that don’t know, chickens…
