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I am so new to chickens, I haven't even gotten my chicks yet! Looking forward to getting started, probably with Ameracaunas and/or easter eggers. My concerns are the Texas weather and predators, currently perusing the threads... I found out about BYC while I was cruising for tractor designs, as...

Hi! It's HawaiiAraucanas! I'm a young pre-chicken keeper living in Hawaii. The place I am getting my two chicks from (Probably) is 'Asagi Hatchery'. I just wanted to see if any other Chicken keepers from Oahu got their chickens from Asagi. If you got chickens (Or chicken and Supplies) from...

Hi everyone! I'm on the east coast of Florida between St Augustine and Daytona. I have two rescued Lab/Pointer pups (1 1/2yrs old) and am looking into chickens (for eggs and poop for fertilizer). I've been researching online to try to build a coop/run and there are so many....not sure which...

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...

So I'm new here and this is my first time incubating. I have a small 7 egg yescom brand incubator. It worked perfectly empty ran for 2 days no problem with temp or anything. So I added 7 eggs and it held for 1-2 hours before slowly losing heat according to thermometer. I don't currently have a...

hello. I have never owned chickens before but we are going to start our journey this spring. I’m getting ready to order my 1 day old chicks. My daughters really want a few Silkies. We have a very small cat (7lbs). She hunts small births and moles regularly. Don’t worry. She wears a bell. I’m...

Hello everyone, my name is Kenia and I live in Mexico City. I was fortunate enough to spent 3 and a half wonderful years with a Muscovy Duck (I always thought she was a Muscovy Duck). His name was Pato. I have come here in search of this community's help. I lost my duck on Sunday and I don't...

Hi I’m Katie! I’m a momma of two crazy toddlers and we live in currituck North Carolina! I have falling in love with incubating and I’m working on my second batch! I hatched my first set of eggs and got two great chickens, but then a critter got them. So we are trying again and I also have two...

Hello! Hello! Greetings BYC people. I have been reading and lurking on this site for probably a year or two now lol. I finally got my chickens recently! We live in southern Idaho and bought a house (3 months ago) on about 1/2 an acre. We (my husband & I) love small town/rural living and I am a...

My name is Amber. My 15 year old son wanted to raise chickens for eggs. In October, we purchased 9 chicks (3 each of Buff Orpingtons, Golden Comets, and Barred Plymouth Rocks). In addition, the hatchery sent us an extra Buff and Barred. The BPR died within hours of receipt, and the BO a couple...

hello everyone! i am so excited to finally be a byc member! i have wanted to for a while but never got around to it. i have owned chickens for approximately three years and i currently own five chickens. i have two Rhode Island Reds, a Barred Rock, an Easter Egger, and one Serama Mille fleur...

Hi Guys, So I'm really REALLY new to this whole chick raising thing. I am looking after a friends house at the moment and his chicken had 8 chicks (so far). She seems to have accepted four of them, but the other four she wouldn't go near for some reason? After giving her around 12 hours to see...

Hi everyone ~ I got my first chicken two years ago! In fact, my hen is turning two this January. Her name is Bawk and she’s a partridge silkie. Bawk is surprisingly not very amiable ; she doesn’t get along with any of my other pets. I recently added two new chickens to my family in June. One...

Hi, my roommate and I are college students living in rural/suburban Georgia who decided to take up backyard chicken raising together. We’ve had chickens for about nine months now, and we have 3 fully grown Rhode Island Red hens, and a Buff Orpington, Black Australorp, and Silver Laced Wyandotte...

Hello from London! I will shortly be getting three silkie chicks and I’m just looking to read up more and learn as much as I can! My Grampa had chickens when I was younger and I’m very excited to be getting these fluffy girls! I’m eager to hear your stories of having silkie chicks

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - My mom moved to Maine without saying goodbye to me and I adopted the chickens so they wouldn't go to a slaughter house. I started with one old Rhode Island Red, two Welsummers, and 10 Dorkings chicks by the end of July. Due to not...

My uncle gifted us a little tamed black chick (Googoo) a while back and I got really attached to it, I never thought about caring for a chick before it started to follow me around. Unfortunately, this morning my father discovered that it had passed away :( It got tangled in a hook from the heat...

Hi all! We are about to get started on raising a backyard flock. We haven't done a single thing yet and were wondering what more veteran chicken folks would do if they could do it over again. Any thoughts?

Hi, I'm new to chicken keeping and have four lovely girls; Cissy, Ada, Evadne Hinge, and Hilda Bracket. Evadne and Hilda are Warrens, Cissy is a hybrid White Leghorn, and Ada is a hybrid Black Rock. We got them at point of lay (just about) and have started to get one or two eggs a day from...