We know this is one of the first questions people ask when thinking about becoming backyard chicken farmers. Fear not, as this all-encompassing guide is designed to provide detailed information and tips on raising baby chickens known as chicks, focusing specifically on their dietary needs. When it comes to raising chicks into healthy and happy …
If you’ve found yourself with a myriad of questions about hatching baby chicks, you’re not alone. Options range from the traditional mother hen brooding to using an incubator While the mother hens make it look so easy, successfully incubating and hatching a batch of chicks takes skill, time, patience, and practice. Of course, this particular …
Proper feeding of baby chickens, either ones who were hatched by a brooding hen or in an incubator, is important to their growth and development. They need the proper amount of certain vitamins, minerals, proteins, and etc., in order to grow to their full potential. In this article, we’ll talk about how soon they should …
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At some point in your backyard chicken farming journey, you may decide to hatch your own chicks. It’s a natural feeling–a desire to take on the next challenge in animal husbandry. Not to mention, baby chickens are the cutest little things! On day one, they are so tiny that you’ll be afraid to pick them …
When you buy chicks, it’s impossible to tell if you’re buying male or female birds. They’re too young when they’re in stores to have identifying markers unless they are autosex breeds. (We’ll talk more about what that means below.) Many breeders will have a professional whose job it is to check a chick’s sex organs …
Hatching and raising baby chicks, or as they are often referred to as chicks or baby chickens, can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience for individuals and families alike. This is especially true if the chicks are backyard chickens, a popular choice for many budding poultry keepers. We’ve had our share of wonderful, and sometimes …
The Intricacies of Chicken Egg Fertilization We should have seen this question coming from a mile away. But, like the naive new backyard chicken farmers we were, we didn’t think about it until we stared into the face of our then six-year-old holding a fluffy little chick in his hands and asking, “Where do baby …
I was walking past our incubator the other day and heard a little chirp. The sound brought a smile to my face and pulled a memory out of my heart of the first time we incubated eggs and my son was so excited to hear them chirp. His smile was big for days. Have you …
Welcome to a comprehensive exploration of raising chicks! How long should chicks stay in the brooder is a question often posed by backyard chicken farmers and chicken enthusiasts alike. The proper care of chicks requires careful attention to detail, appropriate temperatures, and accurate knowledge of the chick’s age and size. In the diverse world of …
One thing we’ve found when working with other backyard chicken farmers—those who raise chicks into hens and even maintain flocks of backyard chickens—are that they are a talkative bunch when it comes to their flocks. Equipped with bounties of knowledge about everything from including grains and chicken feeds in their food selection to feeding protein-rich …
