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  1. Lone Star Leghorn

    Chicken Journal?

    We are getting chickens for the first time in late August. We will have around 25 Cornish cross for meat birds (short term), and 10 Dominique's for egg layers (long term). I have seen some people suggest making a journal of everything we do. Is there anything in particular that we need to make...
  2. Xlynnex

    New here and have a mixed flock introduction question

    Hello! I have 3 9-week old Brahmas that are out in their run and coop (third night now) and I have 2 4-week old polish hens. I’ve read and heard about introductions and wanted to ask some of you guys. So I hear putting the polish in the coop at night is the best bet, do I wait until it’s pitch...
  3. AlderCreekAK

    Hello from Alder Creek AK!

    Hi everyone, We are new to the chicken community! Just prior to getting married a little over a year ago, we bought property in Interior Alaska and started building our home... Our adventurous family includes: (1) building/residential-contracting, surfing, backcountry-skiing...
  4. NSKDodge

    New member, new flock! New Gold Brahma roo?

    Hello everyone! Over the years I have found Backyard Chickens to be an extremely helpful recourse and am happy to be joining the community! My name is Nina and I've been around chickens my whole life. Growing up we had a whole barn for them and a fenced field for them to roam. Later on my...
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  5. RiversideChick

    Greetings! New mama of 13 chicks :)

    Hello! I am a new chicken owner and this forum has already become invaluable to me. My husband and I live on the Nisqually River in Washington State (hence the screen name). We have 13 chicks that are now 4 weeks (and some change) old. They have been living outside full time and thriving for a...
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    • combining flocks easter egger new flock new member new member introduction polish rooster sapphire gem speckled sussex wyandotte
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  6. Blackoutcat

    Mixed Flock Orpington, Wyandotte, and Polish?

    Hi everyone, My husband and I just bought a new home and we live in an area now that allows us to have small livestock (finally!). I've been researching the heck out of chicken breeds for climate tolerance, comb types, productivity, hardiness, typical personality, and of course a little...
  7. ChickenTater

    Questions about my new chickens

    Hi guys! I’m not sure if this is where i should be posting this, but better somewhere than nowhere lol. Ok so let me set this up real quick before I get into the questions. So I recently was given ownership of 12 chickens, including one rooster. I already have 5 hens of my own. Right now, the...
  8. FunSally

    Advice on finding new home for 3yr old Hens....

    I am currently raising my second flock, 13 - 3 week old hens. I still have 3 Barred Rock 3yr old hens from first 10 hen flock left. They're healthy, friendly & spoiled rotten. However I need to build new coop & reconstruct new run for new flock.... I do not want to do the whole...
  9. Tlco

    Integrating new flock with older flock

    Ok some of you may have read my previous post on getting some new hens age 4 mo old. I have a smaller flock aprox 5 mo old with a rooster who is about 1 to 2 yrs old. Each flock have there own space but free range in our yard. They usually stay simi close to each other but not together. No...
  10. D-tiny-chicans

    New Chickens

    I already have a flock of 5 bantam hens and one bantam rooster. I usually have to buy large eggs for cooking. I want to get 3 or 4 standard rode island reds or barred rocks. I built the coop I have now. Its big enough for +- 15 bantams. Can I keep the bantams and standards in the same coop?
  11. NewYorkMama

    Introducing new adult birds to my flock

    Hello! I have a family of 3 buff orpingtons who are 1.5 years old. They all get along splendidly. Tomorrow, 2 new buff orpington girls, around 3-5 years old (I am adopting rescues from a farm sanctuary) will be joining them. They've been living with their current flock for months, and have been...
  12. DBlankley

    I’m back

    i was a member before 2015 when we moved and sold our flock. Now planning to start over. I mis my girls so am excited to find a few girls to make me happy. We are researching coops
  13. toriyr

    New backyard chicken enthusiast | Melbourne, Australia!

    Hi everyone, My name is Tori and I'm from Melbourne Australia. I recently got my first flock of Isa Browns this weekend, sadly I think one is sick, which is why I joined the forum, but hopefully she will recover and I can rejoice in the keeping of backyard chickens! My other three chooks are...
  14. toriyr

    New flock | one chicken not moving, eating or drinking

    Hi there everyone, I know similar threads have been started here about the same subject, but I'm a very new backyard chicken enthusiast so any help would be much appreciated! I went out and got four chickens from a reputable breeder on the weekend just passed, all wormed and vaccinated. Have...
  15. KodaBlue

    Starting anew!

    Hello fellow feather collectors! I just had some fun of the mill questions and concerns for the new flock I'll be starting next spring. I have had chickens before I lived in Washington state my whole life up until three years ago (now living in North Dakota) I couldn't take my birds with me to...
  16. Fowl Mama

    We inherited a coop and small flock

    Oh my...we are taking over care of 2 roosters and 5 hens. They are laying and we’re new to chickens. We haven’t had any hens laying yet. We’ve only started from chicks. We need to move the coop and chickens over to our yard. We currently have a 5 mo old “nice” rooster. We also have 4 7mo old...
  17. Our new coop build spring 2018

    Our new coop build spring 2018

    Still in progress. My husband is doing all the building, and I'm doing all the cosmetics. I was very specific on what I wanted/needed as far as function and ease of cleaning, though my husband made a few changes he did keep my requests in his build. One end has a storage space for all their feed...
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  18. andrinaden

    New chicks, new coop, old flock!

    Hey peeps (pun intended), We have 4 one-year-old hens, one pain the butt rooster, and 6 new three week old babies! I'm posting pics of our newly assembled coop as well as the old. Our goal would be to get them all in together now that we have the room. (Holds up to 14 in the new one). Should we...
  19. SeanClark5879

    Central Illinois/Indiana Breeders?

    I am wanting to get chickens (hopefully soon) and I would love to support local breeders over large scale chicken-mills that just mass produce chicks with no real care about the chicky babies. I am basically living on the state border of the two states (Clark County IL, 25 minutes from Terre...
  20. aimwad

    Not sleeping in coop?

    Good morning! I'm still new here and still very new to chickens. I live in the city so I have a very small flock - just 3 8 week olds. They've been in their coop/run for a couple weeks now. Every night I've had to move them into the coop area. They seem to prefer to huddle together in a...
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