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My First Year With Chickens: A Week-By-Week Guide to a Happy, Healthy Flock
Sponsored by Purina
Table of Contents:
Before chickens: What you’ll need■ Supply checklist, starter feed selection
Setting up■ Brooder guide
Week 1: Welcoming chicks home
Weeks 2–3: Keep the growing going
Week 3: Prepare the coop■ Coop location, types of coops, building considerations
Weeks 4–5: The teenage stage■ Gender identification, feather changes
Weeks 6–8: It’s coop time■ Transitioning from brooder to coop
Weeks 9–14: A time of exploration■ Free-ranging, dust bath DIY, nest boxes
Weeks 15–17: Egg-ticipation■ Choosing a layer feed
Week 18: Welcome to adulthood■ The first egg, egg gathering, storage
Mature hens: It’s egg-laying time■ Egg goals, treats, lighting, cold weather care
Year two and beyond■ Introducing new birds, molt, retirement
Other fowl and mixed flocks
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