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Raising hens from baby chicks requires you to check on them often during the first few weeks. It’s really fun to watch them turn from downy, fluffy little balls into feathered-out, gawky adolescent pullets. With some basic know-how, you can raise happy, healthy laying hens and, if you choose, roosters.

To start with, you need some chick-specific supplies:

Brooder. A brooder is some kind …

1. How to Handle First of all, do not pick them up very much. Handling a lot might injure them. To pick them up, slip one hand under the chick’s tummy, and put the other hand on top of the chick to hold it gently but firmly.

2. Get them warm nowImmediately get them warm. If you just got your chicks, and you don’t have a warm box (like 90 degrees F, very warm), you can put them …

I have gotten several questions about the requirements of raising baby chickens so I thought I would post what I use to successfully raise my new biddies .

The Brooder –the brooder does not have to be something fancy. It can be as simple as a rubbermaid container to a cardboard box, or the wooden store bought kind. Just make sure you have enough room to raise them until they are …

How To Hatch Chicken Eggs

Related tutorials: How-To #2: The First 60 Days

General Hints First things first – eggs should hatch in 21 days, give or take couple, after the hen has begun to “set” or incubate them.

Before putting your eggs into an incubator, plug it …

Here are the best baby chicken hatcheries that provide bantam chickens as well as other rare and exotic chicken breeds to raise and enjoy in your backyard! Hatching chickens is a very rewarding experience.

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When the chicks begin to outgrow their box, you may move them outdoors – either to a larger pen inside a barn or shed, or to their new chick yard which you should have ready. A good temporary pen may be made out on the grass or in the barn/shed by taking a roll of one-inch mesh hardware cloth (welded wire fencing), stand the roll on end, and unroll it into a large corral; you can wiretie …

Chickens like all animals that spend most of their time outdoors can get themselves into trouble. Usually it’s mild stuff, escaping their enclosure, eating stuff they shouldn’t, cuts and scrapes, etc. but sometimes things can get serious. This happened to one of my chickens.

It’s been a very rainy end of July and beginning of August. Generally wet and dreary. One of my chickens somehow …

Raising Baby Chickens – The First 60 Days

Related Tutorials: How-To #1: Hatching Eggs

General Hints So, now you have some cute little fuzzballs…what now?? The main things to attend to for the first 60 days:

housing

temperature

food and water

cleanliness

Chicks should be kept indoors (or in a …