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Hiya! I am a new member here. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? No, we have been raising chickens, ducks and quail for a while. I have had birds for most of my life, but now have started a small farm. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? We don't have to...

Hello Everyone! So thrilled to be a part of this community! We are new to chickens and brought our girls home in mid-March. We live along the front range of Colorado. We have 7 chickens of various breeds from barred rock to Columbia and partridge Wyandotte, a Rhode Island white and Rhode...

Hello BYC! We are Kat and Tony, (husband and wife) homesteading in Central Ohio, and are so excited to be part of this community! We are new chicken parents to three Easter Eggers, now almost 17 weeks old, Dino (Magdinolena), Chubbs (Ostara), and Jeezy (Jesusa). We wanted names that were a play...

Hi I'm new. Ive been frecuenting this forum for like a week seeing how a lot of people have amazing tips for taking care of our feather babies. But only 3 days ago I had to come here searching for answers to see why my duckling was having these very scary and worry some symptoms. I just posted a...

So, we took my cousins daughter and my DIL's niece (who lives with us) to Ace Hardware and bought chicks! They were in a borrowed brooder contraption in the house for about 3 weeks and we recently moved them outside to the coop we'd bought on Amazon. Soon realized they need a chicken run pronto...

Hello, I'm just joining BYC. I haven't even purchased my first hen yet. I only plan on getting 4-6 hens for eggs. I have a coop that I chanced upon for a great price, but am still learning all I can. Thanks!

Hello everyone, I'm Cammy. I've raised chickens and ducks for the past 2 years on my own with mostly help from websites and my dad who doesn't live with me but talks to me a lot over the phone. As of a week ago, I got my first incubator and I have 8 white Pekin duck eggs, 5 white leghorn/RIR...

Kia Ora, My Name is Meg and I'm a budding Chicken enthusiast from New Zealand. I'm a University student living with my mother and grandmother on a half acre section in a small town. My family has kept chickens twice before, but both times were kind of on the fly because someone we knew needed...