Your Weekly Chick Checklist: Weeks 4-5
Baby chicks grow quickly and reach the beginning of adolescence around weeks 4 and 5. At this time, you can begin telling the chicken’s gender, adult feathers begin growing in and the chicken pecking order...
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Your Weekly Chick Checklist: Weeks 2-3
Your Weekly Chick Checklist: Weeks 2-3. 2- to 3-week-old baby chicks grow quickly and change each day. To continue giving them a strong start, keep the brooder clean and warm, offer complete starter-grower feed and...
Why Chickens Stop Laying Eggs
There's a lot of misinformation circulating about why chickens stop laying eggs. We're here to clear that up with some facts. Chickens stop laying eggs for a variety of reasons. Hens may lay fewer eggs...
Trick or Treat, Give Your Chickens Something Good to Eat!
Trick or Treat, Give Your Chickens Something Good to Eat: There is a cool breeze in the air and the leaves are starting to turn rich hues in many parts of the country. Yes, fall...
How Do Chickens Lay Eggs? Understanding Your Egg-Laying Chickens
How Do Chickens Lay Eggs? Understanding Your Egg-Laying Chickens: Egg-laying chickens lay up to one egg per day at their peak. But how do chickens lay eggs? And how often do chickens lay eggs? The...