Valentine’s Day weekend 2021, we bundled up and drove to our local livestock shop to buy six baby chicks right before an arctic blast hit our neighborhood. We were fortunate to find a filthy, but otherwise excellent brooder box in the barn when we cleaned it out, so the chicks had a place to live. Because of the weather, however, we carefully moved it from the garage to the basement utility room so that the baby birds would not freeze to death. Reader, this was a good idea, but also a bad one. In the three years we have cared for these birds, we have learned a thing or two.
What I Wish I Knew Before Keeping Chickens
What I Wish I Knew Before Keeping Chickens
What I Wish I Knew Before Keeping Chickens
Valentine’s Day weekend 2021, we bundled up and drove to our local livestock shop to buy six baby chicks right before an arctic blast hit our neighborhood. We were fortunate to find a filthy, but otherwise excellent brooder box in the barn when we cleaned it out, so the chicks had a place to live. Because of the weather, however, we carefully moved it from the garage to the basement utility room so that the baby birds would not freeze to death. Reader, this was a good idea, but also a bad one. In the three years we have cared for these birds, we have learned a thing or two.