Our chicks are 6 weeks old tomorrow. Here's them when we first got them: 4 weeks old, discovering the yard for the first time: Pig (left) is very good at digging: Sittin': Everything else in life is kind of blah right now but I like these lil' guys. They've discovered that they can fly high enough to clear the cage walls (~2.5 feet high), so I guess I need to build a lid for their cage now...
Nice! Sorry to hear about the neighbors; who wouldn't want neighbors with chickens? We've got six so without a doubt we will be swimming in eggs here in a couple months... I am going to build a coop this summer out in one of the field areas near our house. It probably won't be anything fancy since fingers crossed we'll be leaving here in 2-3 years. Do you plan to let yours run around in your yard or are you building a run as well?
I've been told that certain breeds of chickens love field mice. If one of my neighbors wanted to keep a few chickens that loved field mice, I'd be all for it. Like centipedes and spiders in the basement, it can't hurt, right?Sorry to hear about the neighbors; who wouldn't want neighbors with chickens?
I heard about that. There's supposedly a patch coming in Junglefowl 52.37-12.183 update. The programmer loosefeathers found that the previous update affected all of the models running the G. g. domesticus distro. Apparently it was some kind of memory stack error that didn't manifest itself until after 1,200+ hours of uninterrupted runtime.