Free Classifieds - USFreeads. Getting started with pastured chickens, Part I. June 16, 2005: It all started innocently enough: A little over a year ago I brought six baby chicks home from the local farm store in a cardboard box and settled them into a wire rabbit cage in the corner of my dining room. This wasn’t quite as impulsive as it may sound, as I’d been thinking seriously about getting a little backyard flock for a number of years, and was all set to put together a “chicken tractor” (a bottomless, portable cage – so named by Andy Lee) for the girls to live in. The five black, sexlink hens and the one straight-run Buff Orpington chick (you have to buy a minimum of 6 chicks in Pennsylvania and there were only 5 BSLs left in the bin) settled in and began to poop, drink, eat, and grow – in roughly that order.
I’d had chickens as a kid, so the whole deal was reasonably familiar to me – but my partner Tom (a life-long city boy before he met me) was entranced! “Sure,” I said, “Why not?” “Can you get me some information?” Said Tom. Testing the waters Getting in deeper. Housing Tips \\ Poultry Housing and Ventilation // The University of Georgia.
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