Eight Acres - the blog — chicks
Raising baby chicks
Mar 14 2016 0 Comments Tags: chicks, tractor
Over spring and summer we incubate chicken eggs and raise chicks. We fatten the roosters to eat and keep the hens to replace our older layers. Raising chicks is great fun, a lot of hard work, but worth...
Keeping bantam chickens
Nov 11 2015 0 Comments Tags: bantams, chicks
Bantams are chickens that are bred to be smaller than full sized chickens ("large fowl"). There are different breeds of bantams, some are...
Incubating chicken eggs and brooding chicks
Jan 23 2015 0 Comments Tags: brooder, chicks, incubator
Here's some photos of our latest hatch and a few posts explaining how and why we hatch chicks:
- Incubating chicken eggs - there are lots of factors that affect hatch rate, here's how to get the best results from your incubator
- Caring for baby chicks - how to set up a brooder box, feed and water for your chicks
Caring for young chicks
Apr 03 2013 0 Comments Tags: chickens, chicks
Incubating chicken eggs
Mar 27 2013 0 Comments Tags: chickens, chicks, eggs, incubator
Determining the gender of young chickens: are those chicks hens or roosters?
Jun 25 2012 0 Comments Tags: chickens, chicks