Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...

Use this guide created to learn the ins and outs of feeding, watering, brooder heat, and bedding for your first chicks. Deciding to keep chickens is an important step for most people interested in ...

It started innocently enough. In the spring of 2010, shortly after Duluth, Minnesota, passed an ordinance allowing residents to keep chickens, my husband, Jason, came home from the feed store bearing ...

If you’d like to get started raising baby chicks, here’s everything you need to know about baby chick supplies, bedding for ...

There’s a few things you need to know about chickens when you’re waiting for them to hatch, according to 6-year-old Theron Gough. One, it’s really fun to bang on nails when you’re building a place for ...

One of the hottest commodities right now is chickens. If you talk to the feed stores in the county, baby chicks are going faster than normal. Most hatcheries are booked out until summer, so this is a ...

Brooding baby chicks in cold weather — how low can you go? As it turns out, cold-weather brooding can go low indeed. Back in the 1950s, when the electric companies were promoting electric brooding as ...