Hello

from New Mexico!

If you still keep budgies, there is a caged bird section here where lots of us folks also keep parrots. Post up some pics of your birds there too! Enjoy your new poultry adventures!!

Sadly I haven't had any budgies for almost two years. They are sweet little birds.

Hi and from Ohio. So glad you joined.

Ha over 3 years later and I randomly have chickens- well my family randomly has chickens. (Surprised I remembered my password after all this time)

I'd given up on ever getting chickens, then a friend of my mother had to find a new home for two of her chickens. She free-ranged her chickens and these two liked to free-range onto the neighbor's porch and allegedly pooped there- so we got two porch-pooping chickens. I think they're red sex-linked but not sure, even less sure of what they were crossed with (My Mom keeps forgetting to ask her friend what they are and where they came from). I'll try to post a picture later so you guys can try IDing them. They have single combs, wattles, sort of light red and look like comets/red-star/whatever. They've already laid brown eggs (one of them laid a rather big brown egg, the other one has laid smaller brown eggs).

So we were still getting used to our new 'pets' and getting them used to us. They're already pretty tame, from what I understand the family before them treated them like pets and their kid named them French Fry and Firestar. We were beginning to think about letting them out of the makeshift pen to roam the yard (We got the chickens quite suddenly so haven't planned as much as we should have) when my dad comes home from wherever with another flock of chickens! I've done some research on chickens but I'm afraid all he did was go on Craigslist and find someone getting rid of hens and got them. No place to put the new chickens but in the pen and the first two got stuck in a big dog crate. Hopefully the new chickens don't have any diseases or parasites because they were put so close to the original two it's too late to bother with quarantining :-/ I hope no chickens get hurt when we integrate the original two with this flock- I imagine it would be better if they met in the open instead of the pen- right?

Most of the new chickens are all white, relatively the same size and build, also have single combs and wattles. I have no idea what they are, breed or hybrid. Two of the new ones look like they're the same breed/hybrid as the two we already had. But this new flock are much more flighty than the first two, had to keep catching them before we had to properly cover the pen (I don't think the first two flew out of the pen) they also don't seem as friendly as the first two- but they've already learned to come to the wire when I approach the pen. No eggs from the new girls yet but they've been with us for only one night so that's expected.

None of them are the breeds I was interested in getting when I was looking into chickens and I would've been happy with just the first two... But going to make the most of the flock I've wound up with. Advice is appreciated.

You can post photos at "what breed or gender is this."

I will.
My phone is being stupid so I guess I'll have to go out there with my digital camera tomorrow. Going through that part of the forum seeing if any chickens looking like mine turn up.