Hello, my name is Tiffany. Although I dont have any right now, I've raised chickens for years. I've always found them to be wonderful pets. I've also raised peacocks, guineas, ducks, turkens, pheasants, pigeons, and doves. I currently have a 10yr old pet pigeon named Cheepers, a 19yr old dove...
Hello all! I'm Leslie, located in southeastern Michigan and am pretty much completely new to chickens! My best friend had some as pets growing up, but it's been about 20 years since then, haha! My fiance and I have been discussing options for quite a while and my daughter has developed a...
I hope you are all doing well. Its very crazy weather here right now!
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I am new to chickens and have never had chickens. I am coming here to see what chickens would work best where I am.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now...
Looking forward to being a part of this fun community! My husband and I bought a house in November and a few weeks later we brought home our girls! He and I have loved having them and look forward to getting yummy breakfasts from them once they reach that age! This is both of our first times...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Not new - I had so many chickens, guineas, ducks, turkeys growing up. All sorts of breeds and loved them like crazy. After we moved off our farm, unfortunately we had to sell them all :( talk about hard - anyways I just got married...
Hi all!
So I'm not really new to BYC. I just realized today I completely neglected to post an introduction! I originally joined earlier this year when my goose, Sniper, was ill and I needed help trying to figure out what was wrong with her (she's doing great now though thanks to help I received...
Hello, I'm new to this group and would like to share my chicken status.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I started chickens in April.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? I started with 6 and now have 4 due to meeting the new neighbor dog last week and...
Howdy.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I am new to Chickens, I don't have any yet but I plan to get some Ex Battery ones in March due to it getting quite cold up here in winter. Aka, Partially featherless ex battery hens may not do well during winter, so its a...
Hi all, My name is Daphne. I don't have chickens yet, but I've been interested in getting started for a few years. My challenge is that the Houston suburban neighborhood I live in is restricted. No chickens allowed here. But I'm ramping up to move somewhere with a little more space and less...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
My family had a chicken when I was little, but that was the distant past. I've had my babies for three weeks now. :)
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
4
(3) What breeds do you have?
Well, I got them at Tractor Supply, so...
Hi everyone been keeping chickens and just got ducks and really excited to be on this forum poultry raising has been a real big learning experience for me. We inherited a flock when we moved to a new property that had 7 roosters and 4 hens that slept in trees and forarged. Of course there was...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I first got chickens when I was four years old after bugging my parents about it forever. I saved all my money and finally got some pretty hens in my life. It's all gone crazy from there.
(2) How many chickens do you have right...
My name is Emmet, I am 18 years old and I am bad at just introducing myself since I tend to ramble so I just copy and pasted the questions to answer.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Kind of, yes, I showed turkeys with 4H so I know a bit about poultry. We first got...
(I'm awful at intros, so I'll just copy and paste the template questions)
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Relatively new, only about 3 years in.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 16: 5 Australorps, 4 buff brahma, 2 wynadottes, and 5 2-month old chicks...
I am Abby, I am a high school student and me and my father LOVE chickens. Our family has had chickens for 4 years. We have 15 chickens and 2 ducklings right now. We started with 4 pullets- a black sex link, 2 rhode island reds, and a white leghorn. The next year we go three more- a buff brahma...
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I'm Laura, recently new to chickens. Got 9 pullets and 1 rooster in Spring. Recently got a few more chicks. We have a mix of different breeds, Easter eggers, RIR, speckled sussex, silver laced wyandotte, and one bielefelder. I found BackYardChickens.com just by google searching any chicken...
I'm Christy, living in South Florida. I fell in love with chickens 3 years ago when I got a part time job with a mobile petting zoo. My favorite girl was a d'Uccle named Spot. Over a few months she would lay an egg during a birthday party. I was just screwing around and kept taking them...
Thanks for adding me, my name is River. We have 8 rhode islands and we think laying time is getting very close. I was raised in alabama on a very large "backyard" farm lol. Im a mechanic by trade and small farming has always been a dream so were getin it goin. Cant wait to meet all yall.
Hello fellow chicken people!
I've been scouring this site for a long time. All of you are such a wonderful community and a great source of information! So I finally decided to become a part of it. Here's a little novel about our chicken adventure.
I'm fairly new to chickens. We first got...
Hello everyone! I am a teacher-turned-illustrator living in the Rockies west of Denver. I am hoping to get into homesteading one day when I get a house and that definitely includes chickens! I've been doing a lot of research over the past few months and always end up here, so I figured I may as...