Winter should be just as good a time to raise chickens as any other time of year. With more latitude on temperature and air ...

Knowledge of housing, brooding, and handling chicks safety makes raising poultry a rewarding experience. Before deciding to raise poultry, or any livestock, it is important to investigate local codes ...

Have questions about caring for your new chicks? Wondering how to build a brooder box? How big should a brooder box be? Learn here about the essentials for creating a brooder box. Having an area ...

In this video, I explain how I set my brooder up and transfer newly hatched coturnix quail chicks from the incubator to the brooder.

Brooding is the provision of artificial heat to help chicks regulate their temperature. The heat can be provided using charcoal jikos, gas or electric brooders. The brooder area should be ready at ...

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 ...

The term broody might not be an everyday word used in the average person’s vocabulary, but for anyone who owns chickens it is a well-known poultry tendency. Broodiness is a behavior a hen can exhibit ...

Which medicine should I give my day-old chicks. See, I was given ‘chicks start’ and ‘chick formula’, but after three days, they started becoming weak and died... [Gladys Amboga] Dear Ms Amboga Your ...

It's August in Birdland, but I don't recognize it. How long can this lovely coolness last? It feels more like May, only with the full, green lushness of summer. I'm sitting in the shade, protected ...