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Hello. I'm a new member to the community and look forward to being here to learn more about my chickens. I started with chickens last year and have 8 and I have added 10 new chicks to my backyard this spring. We will be giving three away to my neighbor who is right now building her coop...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Not new to chickens, or BYC, just returning because I forgot my old login and I no longer use my old email. Whoops! (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have somewhere around 25 adult birds (adding 5 pullets soon), and...

Hello, New member here. I started homesteading in July 2022. We started with a flock of 15 Barred Rocks and lost one to a predator. We then bought what we thought was 7more Barred Rock pullets. We ended up with Olive Eggers, three were roosters! We decided to move from Suburban neighborhood...

ATTN: THIS IS @BackroadGirl57 'S ALTERNATE ACCOUNT, MADE AS IF A DIFFERENT PERSON (not really a person, a car) (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, I've never had chickens. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? None, but that will change in a few weeks...

Hey yall! I'm Alex, nice to meetcha 😀 Rocky Road the Fibro EE, Cassiopeia the Prairie Bluebell Egger and Pantera the Ayam Cemani. Fairly new chicken mama here (we got our first chicks back in February) who is just starting to dip my toes into breeding, so I've come to this forum to learn as...

(1) Are you new to chickens/when did you first get chickens? Really new. Got them this Tuesday for my birthday after much research and pondering. Yay~ (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Just three. (3) What breeds do you have? Splash Australorp, paint Silkie, and a silver Wyandotte...

Hello, I’m a new chicken mama and live in a neighborhood setting at the moment. I grew up around chickens and cows. We have a flock of three Sapphire Gem girls, roughly 5-6 months old now. I love spending time with my girls and learning each individual personality. I also enjoy gardening and...

Hi all! I have a large family who love raising animals (especially our chickens), living on the middle peninsula of Hampton Roads, Virginia. There are 8 of us altogether and we call ourselves The Fortune Hive! About a year ago we built a VERY large chicken coop/run and began raising our 6...

Howdy! I’m in SE Idaho and I’ve had chickens for quite a few years now. I joined this thread as I’ve been a constant reader but the time has come where I believe I got a couple roosters this set of chicks. Olive egger & maran. Let me know you’re thoughts below 😅 I’d love to share and learn...

Hi...I am from the NE tri-state area. I have moved from a major city to a rural area to raise livestock and grow food. We typically have on hand 10 layers and 1 rooster. Each year we order about 100 hundred male Cornish Cross meat birds (50 at a time) to feed our family (and some guests) for the...

My name is Joey! :jumpy I've had a liking for chickens for a while, and recently got to raise some babies. I used to have chickens in the past, but due to noise we got them taken away from us. :hit I am on this forum because I lost a beautiful black Silkie a while ago, and I want to hear about...

Hello, I am new and looking forward to making connections and obtaining much knowledge on best methods to raise my two roosters. They are about to turn one year old on July 4th. Angelica was yellow as a chick and we found out later that he was infact an "Angelo". The grey one is named Rapti

Long ago — LONG AGO — I was given an adult pair of button quail who managed to raise a clutch in a flight cage for finches. Since we aren’t allowed to have chickens here I thought I would skirt around the issue a bit and try just a small amount of Buttons (18 eggs). At least I know that if...

Hello everyone! I am Tuesday, im 35 and ive been keeping chickens for about 12 years. Ive had several different breeds as well as sometimes just hens and other times Hens and Roos. My fav breeds are probably bielefelders, welsummers and Buff Orpingtons but what can I say I just love chickens...

I don't have chickens at the moment, but I used to have some unknowns and some kind of bantam with fluffy boots when I was a kid. Right now my job involves selling livestock equipment and my goal is to learn everything I can to help the customers who come in with chicken questions. I would like...

Hello, I’ve been poking around this website for years. Finally made it official and became a member. I had a flock of chickens about 15 years ago, and another a couple of years ago, so I consider myself a newbie. We went to a feed store that has some little peepers, and I thought it would be...

I became a member some time ago, but never introduced myself. I have researched articles for help and am amazed at the knowledge available here. So in addition to my canine agility addiction, I'm back into the birds. I've had chickens in the past, but just started a Flock again. I have barnyard...

Hi all. My name is Laura. We got our first chicks this past April. Yesterday was our first egg -woohoo It’s nice to have a community to ask questions and share. Right now the 2 chickens have dropped their eggs in the coop. One on the shelf and other on the coop floor. Anyone know how long it...

We are a homeschooling family in the Texas Panhandle working on building a homestead! We inherited our first set of hens, 5 Barred Rock, last weekend, from a family member who was no longer physically well enough to care for them. I love watching how interested the kids are in the chickens, and...

Greetings from Southern Vermont! I’m not new to chickens as I’ve had them about 6 years now. And I started looking at this site back when I started my first flock. But I didn’t sign in - I just searched forums and looked at coop ideas. I started with a small flock of barred rock, Orpington and...