Thank you, all.
I've already picked up some info today. When I get inspired, I'll get some pics of my birds. Other than the Bantams, I have no idea what breed they are. I was raised a suburbinite in Minnesota, but fell in love with Texas back in 90-94. I also fell out of love with -40F temps.
Elitist chicken owners? Good lord. I ran into that while taking my dog to obedience training while living in Minnesota. Had her just about to working dog training when I started hearing the sneers about "my dog was sired by blah, blah blah" (and finding out they were HALF owner!). My dog was...
My wife and I picked up some birds over Christmas from my sister-in-law. So far so good. I joined to listen/look for advice and tips, and also need to add a coop/run to separate the bantams from the larger birds. So I will be looking for info on that as well.
Getting about 3 dozen eggs a...