Our original nesting box (on the right in the picture attached) was a DIY project. Free, easy and still used daily by our original 3 OG's. Since then, we've added a dozen or so more to the flock and got a bigger nesting box system thing (on the left in the picture) for everyone to use. The new...
Hi, I'm Maegan and I'm new. I started raising chickens in April, 2020. I started out with ten chickens, then I gave one away, then I got another one, then i got ten more, then three of them died, so now I have seventeen. I have one ameraucana rooster, four ameraucana hens, four black star hens...
Hello, I’m MJ and I picked up my first 3 chicks back in late March. I started with 2 speckled Sussex pullets and 1 buff Orpington pullet. My buff was a sweet little thing but while waiting on being able to move to our new home with a yard (was delayed by almost 2 months :/) they went to my...
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I'm new a new member, but not new to the site. I'm from the sunny island of Curacao. I have been surrounded by animals since i was a little kid. my grandparents (that i lived with) had chickens, ducks, goats and sheep. Now living in a nice neighbourhood i managed to seclude a little...
Hi all, my name is Cerise and my hubby and I got a new flock of chickens just as COVID was shutting everything down. We swiped up the only chicks we could find - 12 bantams. Long story short, 6 were roosters (4 silkies, 1 black Australorp, one Polish), 6 were hens. We adopted out all the boys (I...
Wanted to keep my chicken journey separate from my overall farm life journal on BYH. Right now we don't have any chickens. But soon, very very soon.
This is the premade Chicken Tiny house we purchased. We wanted to just get our feet wet in chicken keeping before we go whole hog! But whole...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes, started reading a couple years ago and took the plunge in early May 2021.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 3
(3) What breeds do you have? Jersey Giant, Buff Rock & Ameraucana
(4) What are your favorite aspects of...
We live in NH and are new to chickens. We got 12 chicks at one day old from a local garden store. 4 Easter Eggers, 4 Barred Rocks, and 4 Rhode Island Reds. We would like to get more into homesteading as we have 12 acres of land and a nice garden. We felt chickens would be next on our list. They...
1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I recently moved to TN with my best friend and family. They own several varieties of chickens and I have difficulty knowing which ones exactly. Lol. They are all so cute!
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 27 chickens and...
Hello Chicken Friends,
I grew up around the chicken industry, my dad still has a commercial farm, but unlike most, his farm is clean and his birds are happy and healthy. My family and I got a few Bantams to raise as pets, but since they came from a store that had no idea on their...
Hello everybody! This is my first post on here, so let me start off with some context. First, though, the weird behaviour is at the very bottom if you don't feel like reading. I am currently raising an Embden x African gosling. The catch is that we're urban! Even though I'm new to raising...
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We have 10 little friends roaming the property peacefully looking for food. That's until we come out, they run to welcome us with hopeful looks. These little things have changed my vision on senerity.
Hello! I have one Olive Egger I am fairly certain is a rooster and one Ameraucana I suspect is a rooster. I also have one chicken that I hope is an Ameraucana but suspect it is an OE. I ordered 5 and got a 6th so I’m not sure what the extra is. I am guessing they were at least a week old when I...
Hi! I’m muaaz and this is my info I guess! So basically I copied some of the questions from a thread and I was told to answer those specific questions if I wanted to. Here goes nothing:
1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
ans. To be honest, I am not that old with...
Hello, I am new to ducks. I was sitting outside with my 2 ducks today and when I would hold my arm out to give them a treat they would run up my arm and nip at my shirt. Very weird. Any ideas?
Hello! My name is Lillie. I am new to this and new to keeping ducks. I was sitting outside with my ducks today and they both started running up my arm nipping at my shirt. Any idea what this means?
I am new here, I have had ducks sense I was about 11 years old. Before I got ducks my mom always had chickens. Then she got 4 Pekin ducklings, I was hooked. From then I have had lots of breeds of ducks, Pekin, khaki Campbell, fawn and white runners, buff, cayuga, calls,welsh harlequin, silver...