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Brooding Chicks

03.19.2018 by thriftyhomesteader // Leave a Comment

Brooding chicks

When you pick up your first chicks, they will need to stay in a brooder for several weeks. If a mother hen had hatched them, they would spend most of their time under her wings, being kept warm by her body heat. Because they were hatched in an incubator, you need to duplicate that warm environment by creating a brooder. “Brooder” is a fancy word for what could simply be a … [Read more...]

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