We just started chicks this winter. We ordered 25. 15 meat birds and 10 laying hens. We only have 1 meat bird left alive and a couple in the freezer. MMMMM are they good. Our laying hens haven't started laying yet.
We put the chicks in a 60 gallon water basin with a heat lamp (red) until they were old enough to fend for themselves against the cats. Now there are in a chicken coop I just built.
I thought you need about 3 sq ft per chicken in a coop.
Can you believe there are BBS just like Pelican devoted to chickens? Just do a google search.
Speedy
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