#40: Chickens Part 1

Let's start with 3-day old chicks

Here’s the first in a series about raising chickens at Pie Cottage, and a pie recipe just in time for Thanksgiving, too.

Chickens Part 1

Bring home some three-day-old female chicks from the local feed and seed store. Set them gently into a brooder, a large and sturdy box placed in a warm and protected place. The south-facing entry room of my home is like a little sunroom and that’s where mine goes. The chicks will live in the brooder for about one month. Your day will be accompanied by lots of cheeping and peeping, and the room will get very dusty so cover everything you can’t move out of it with tarps…not sheets which dust can get through…but tarps…T-A-R-P-S.

As they grow, the chicks will escape from the brooder so, unless you want them running around your living room while you are out, your brooder should have high sides. I also put a dome made from chicken wire over the top.

Is that why they call it chicken wire, Kate?

I guess so.

What did you name them?