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  1. Jan2012

    Official BYC Poll: How Many Chickens Do You Have + How Many Chickens On BYC?

    Adults 1 RIR 1 SLW 1 Buff/Grey Ameraucana 1 Barred Rock 2 Black Ameraucanas 1 Splash black Ameraucana rooster 1 Lavender Ameraucana rooster 6 Australorps 7 Easter eggers Hatched approx. Dec 1 (From feed store) 4 EE (raising for a fried) Hatched approx. Dec 20 (from feed store) 4 RIR 4 BR 4...
  2. Jan2012

    Beginning to Squat

    I have a variety of chickens - RIR, SLW, EE, BR, Ameraucanas.. Some have laid as early as 20 weeks. It depends on the breed. I find the best indicator is when their combs turn bright red from the pink they had been before. I put fake ceramic eggs in the nest boxes to encourage them to lay...
  3. Jan2012

    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    Hi, Thanks for the welcome! I feed my flock each morning and late afternoon, just enough for them to eat. Here is Zephyr, it is rare to not have rain and they mostly free range in the yard, so I keep their food out in various spots for them. Sometimes, I make their food into a mash with...
  4. Jan2012

    New to this site and Loving it

    Enjoy your girls! Our lives are so much richer with them. And this is a wonderful community with wisdom to share.
  5. Jan2012

    Official BYC Poll - Which aspect of keeping chickens do you enjoy the most?

    So I chose companionship, eggs and other. My husband and I discovered after getting our girls that we are bird lovers. I LOVE my birds. There is just something so beautiful about them. Barred with their herringbone like stripes, Reds with their bossiness and innate intelligence...
  6. Jan2012

    FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

    Greetings from Zephyrhills!
  7. Jan2012

    Clearwater, Florida

    By the way, GatorGram
  8. Jan2012

    Clearwater, Florida

    Hi! As a former resident of St. Petersburg, I would recommend Holloway's. They are up on 41 in Land O' Lakes, but the owner is at the downtown farmers' market at Al Lang field when it starts up in October on various Saturdays. Yea!!! (Love, love, love the farmers' market. If you have never...
  9. Jan2012

    Hello from Tampa Florida

    Greetings from Zephyrhills, Neighbor! Two of my first four girls were RIR’s, Ginger and Scratch (my nephew named her). They are incredibly brave, you could set a bomb off next to them and it wouldn’t faze them. Ginger passed, we think she got hit by a falling branch. But Scratch is still...
  10. Jan2012

    BYC Member Interview - Sourland

    Love these interviews!!! And the pics! Lovely wife and congratulations on your long marriage! Just awesome!
  11. Jan2012

    BYC Member Interview - Speckledhen **UPDATE 01-01-21 page 8**

    I guess I am a lurker... I do a lot of reading on the site. Don't feel qualified to do a lot of posting, but I love the site and have learned a lot and incorporated it into my chicken raising. Haven't had much trouble with the chicks (except I now have an rooster overpopulation problem) and...
  12. Jan2012

    BYC Member Interview - Speckledhen **UPDATE 01-01-21 page 8**

    What a GREAT idea! And thank you, SpeckledHen, for sharing some of your life and beautiful family (chicken and human) with us! Enjoyed the pictures, especially of you and the boys. I have three and lots of those pictures with the rabbit ears behind the head. You are a beautiful lady...
  13. Jan2012

    Can you identify this snake?

    LOL about your hubby! The rattlesnake was unexpected and big. My oldest, smartest chicken sounded the alarm and my sister visiting from out-of-town went to see why she was making all that noise and almost stepped on it. It was right next to the back porch. Scary! The state park apparently...
  14. Jan2012

    Can you identify this snake?

    Seminolewind, I'm in Zephyr. Maybe I should come get some of your black racers. We had some in St. Pete where we moved from, I should have caught them and brought them with me. This may be my fault. I was out mowing pasture Saturday, so I may have dislodged it. Also, thinking back years...
  15. Jan2012

    Can you identify this snake?

    Hi all, Thanks for your responses. The snake was actually orangy yellow with thin black stripes. Solid yellow bottom. It looked grey because I took the picture through a plastic box. It wasn't super big but I have twenty chicks in my dining room and it freaked me out that it got inside the...
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