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LilChickens2

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I live in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, near Charlottesville. I have always wanted chickens about five months ago read Everything on chickens.
15 weeks ago I ordered 5 1-Day old female chicks from Meyer Hatchery: 1 Easter Egger, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 White Cochin, 1 Jersey Giant, 1 Silver Laced Polish. They sent me an extra Easter Egger. Since then I've added 3 Golden Comets, 1 Barred Rock and 1 Rhode Island Red.

We have LOTS of predators in the area so we built a portable run for nice weather days and a secure coop/run combo for night-time and bad weather days. The birds were free ranging until I lost one of the Easter Eggers to a freak accident.

I come to this website for all my chicken questions!
 
LilChickens2 said:
I live in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, near Charlottesville. I have always wanted chickens about five months ago read Everything on chickens.
15 weeks ago I ordered 5 1-Day old female chicks from Meyer Hatchery: 1 Easter Egger, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 White Cochin, 1 Jersey Giant, 1 Silver Laced Polish. They sent me an extra Easter Egger. Since then I've added 3 Golden Comets, 1 Barred Rock and 1 Rhode Island Red.

We have LOTS of predators in the area so we built a portable run for nice weather days and a secure coop/run combo for night-time and bad weather days. The birds were free ranging until I lost one of the Easter Eggers to a freak accident.

I come to this website for all my chicken questions!
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Welcome To BYC! Make yourself comfortable and ask any questions your just itching to ask and we'll try to answer them the best we can.
 
A warm welcome to BYC! I also let me chickens free range my plot and i have had the occasional loss to hawks. Its annoying, but personally i prefer for my chickens to "do their thing" and i have accepted that i will have losses sometimes. It all depends on your predators and the frequency of losses i suppose.

Anyway, welcome once again - lots of info and members willing to help out with any questions you may have so don't hesitate to ask away!

CT
 
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