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Raising chicks is infinitely easier than incubating eggs, but there is still much more to it than just plopping them in a coop. They need a toasty-warm mini-coop – a brooder – to nurture them into ...

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On a small homestead, the most expensive mistake with spring chicks is not a fancy feeder or the wrong breed, it is bringing fragile birds into a space that is not ready for them. When you prepare ...