Chicks need crumbled chick food, access to fresh water, and supplemental heat until their feathers fully fill in. Before their coop was complete, my mail-order chicks lived in cardboard boxes under heat lamps in my basement office in Iowa. Photo by Julie Davis
Julie Davis, CherryRoad Media Chicken keepers who want to add new birds to their flocks this year should place their orders soon with mailorder hatcheries…