Joined because I've got some questions that Google couldn't answer! Looking for the Olympic Peninsula group to get specific questions answered.
I love colored eggs and fluffy hens, hope to have a few of our own soon. ;-)
Hi, We have a small hobby farm in the Missouri Ozarks. I love chickens and all things fowl. I currently have 3 male peacocks and two females. We have chickens and guineas and we have had ducks in the past. I love to hear the rooster crow , although our guests often do not! Hope to learn...
Good Morning! It is about 40 degrees here in the North East this morning and I am starting to question my sanity in bringing home baby chicks. I am completley New to this whole process. We bought an old dairy farm a few years back and have been slowly adding new animals to our family. My...
It all started when my daughter talked us into getting 4 chicks at the local feed store. At first I didn't pay much attention to them and my daughter did all the feeding watering and cleaning up. When they were old enough we let them out to free range. I was working on a project one day when...
Hi! I'm Lily and my boyfriend and I currently have two Welsh Harlequin ducklings, Marzipan and Juniper. They love to cuddle and sleep in our hands. I became interested in the idea of getting ducks early this summer, and after spending countless hours researching I finally decided to purchase two...
HI! I'm new to using this and I'm excited to have found this very helpful community! I started raising backyard chickens when I was 8! I had a small flock of 4 silkies (two buff, 1 black and 1 white) that's I tended to with my grandpa! I was sadly forced to give away my hens when my grandfather...
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I grew up with chickens and got my own flock as soon as we moved to our small farm. I have thirty chickens of various breeds, and a family of turkeys, two dogs - one a guardian Mare Emma, two cats, a hive of bees, and have been known to take in various baby birds or squirrels/rabbits to...
Hello everyone! I've been reading posts on here for several months in preparation for getting my first backyard chickens. In May, I got Helen, Gladys and Mable, (all red sexlink) who were still pullets and having now been laying since the middle of June. My plan is to raise two more from chicks...
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I'm a new guy here :) Raised farming ranching in Montana/Wyoming now pastoring a country church in Central Michigan :) I have raised poultry for years off and on. Everything from a dozen to a hundred or so... Chickens, Ducks, Geese, etc.
But I find I can always learn more from others...
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I'm the first of my generation NOT born in a farm, although my mother didn't raise chickens, my grandparents and most family members did, so I guess it's my turn now. I have adopted three chickens/hens - one adult Astrolaupe, Pullet Easter Egger or Americana and a...
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I'm new here (obviously). I don't have a whole lot of experience with chickens, but I've been keeping ducks for nearly 13 years and currently have 3 girls(Daisy, Speckles and Biggles) along with 2 rescue chickens(Pepper and Bucket). I'm here to pick up tips about keeping chooks and...
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I've visited BYC for a while and finally decided to join. Although I'm young, I have lots of experience with these wonderful birds. This is my 4th year with chickens, and their family is very, very blended. We have 5 Reds, 3 Blacks (don't know the breed but they're black with green...
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...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Not really new got my first chicken about 4 years ago!
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Currently I have 10 chickens
(3) What breeds do you have?
I have japanese bantams and silver laced serma
(4) How did you find...
1. Started our brood or Flock 1 on. March 3, 2017
2. We currently have 9 birds 5 hens and 4 roosters. 7 ducks 3 drakes and 4 hens
3. We have Silver Laced Wyandotte, Sexlinc, Black Star, Red Leghorns. 2 Khaki Campbell drakes, new as of two days ago 4 hens and 1 drake are 2 Mallard-Arcana hens...
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I am originally from Cavendish Vermont and now live in the south west of France.
I am new to chickens, though I have wanted them for a long time. My four hens arrived 9 days ago.
I built a new coop using and existing covered outbuilding. Their fenced run is about 40 x 15 and...
Hi Hello Everyone, the backyard chickens is a wonderful community with lot of information about the chickens,
there are many things can know form this forum.
The road to my current chickens has been long and winding. When I was a child my Grandmother would get the 25 free chicks with every 50# bag of feed each spring (she got many bags), of course we had to visit; but watch out for those geese! A few years later my Dad showed me how to take care of...
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I live in the West Midlands UK. I have 5 bantam chicken I think 2 are frizzles and was told the other are golden tops. I have dogs also and keep marine fish.. I will post photos tommorow but my chicks are 8 weeks old I I'm still not sure if they are hens or Cockerell.. I been looking at...