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...
Hi all, I'm from Australia (Brisbane to be more specific) and have been keeping 4 backyard chickens for around 8 months now. 2 australorp hybrids/1leghorn/ISA.
Hope to have some fun and informative discussions on here! :D
Hello fellow poultry lovers!
I live in North Carolina and have recently gotten some chickens and ducks. Although I am not new to chickens, we had them growing up, this is my first flock since then. I found this site by all the googling I’ve done recently because I’ve run into several issues...
Have had a variety of poultry through the years but currently do not have any. We have had ducks (several breeds- cayuga, khaki campbell, runners, swedish), a couple of geese, a few quail but mostly chickens - polish, rhode island red, domonique, cochin and a few others. Am now getting 6 new...
Hi Everyone! I am brand new here! I have been using this site for a couple of days now, to browse and look for information to different questions I have, but I thought I'd finally actually get around to joining! :)
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I am a brand new...
:frowHey again BYC friends!
I’ve been here for a few weeks now and am finally posting our intro. Now that we have had our chickens for a few days and are officially chicken parents I felt like now was a good time for sharing so here goes.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I don't have any chickens yet! I was hoping to buy some adults after building my coop this year, and raising some babies up so they'll be ready to lay next year!
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Zero!
(3) What breeds do...
Hello there everyone, I'm a new starter to chicken keeping and hope to find much wisdom from the folks here while I care for my birds.
Currently I'm caring for a lovely 6 and a half month old Japanese Quail hen (Texas A&M) and a rather brash 7 week old White Silkie chick (heavily suspected to...
Morning all!
I've been checking out this forum since I started my building my flock back in the summer of 2017, though it's taken me a while to join. Right now I have 6 girls, all Easter Eggers, and they've been good, solid layers all winter long. I love the ladies; they're sweet and fun...
Hello!
I started raising chickens the beginning of last summer, for both meat and eggs. I only have egg layers now, my flock has 9 hens and a rooster. I picked up 6 more pullets yesterday to add to my flock when they are big.
I have 1 arucana, 2 red sex links, 6 americana mutts, 3 black sex...
Hi! I'm HawaiiAraucanas. I'm A young, learning, Pre-Chickenkeeper that lives in Hawaii.
Currently I have no chickens, But I am planning to very soon Puchase Two Araucana hen chicks. My mother basically grew up on a farm (or regularly visited my Great Grandparents' farm) that had chickens...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I got my my first flock (silkies) when I was seven years old and I have one from that flock still.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Currently I have 2 geese, 5 ducks, and seventy chickens.
(3) What breeds do you have...
Hi,
My name is Kelsey and I acquired a chicken in September. One of my coworkers has named her Henrietta, but I just call her my Backyard Chicken. I say acquired because her living in our yard was most definitely not up to us. Early September we noticed a chicken hanging around the back of our...
hey howdy my name's dan !! nice to meet yall
im new here so i guess i should introduce myself with those sample questions! however im actually raising quails so i'll change all of the chicken questions to quails
(1) Are you new to quails / when did you first get quails?
i am VERY NEW to...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Yes! We have 11 that were hatched in May
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
11
(3) What breeds do you have?
1 Rhode Island
2 New Hampshires
2 Dominiques
4 Buff Orps
2 Welsummers
(4) How did you find out about...
I grew up with chickens while my grandparents were alive. I never had any of my own until last year at age 55.
I currently have 14 chickens. 1 Rooster named Buddy and 13 hens.
I have 3 Barred Rock hens, 1 Barred Rock Rooster, 3 Black Jersey Giants, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 White...
Hi. Tim here and my handle is IdeashareCFS.
My family and I live in Delaware and this our third year raising chickens. This year we started a new flock: red sex-link, Araconas and a token Silkie.
We are in a suburban location so we had to give away a couple of the Aracona roos. Now we have a...