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  1. K

    New to chickens in Keezletown, VA

    Hi! I ordered baby chicks last week. They will arrive in April. That gives me just over 2 months to figure out what I’m doing, as I am new to chickens. Six female chicks were ordered: 2 - Black Australorp 2 - Amber Star 2 - Colombian Wyandotte If you live in or near Rockingham County, VA I...
  2. F

    Peachy Keen Place in PDX

    Hello Everyone! I haven’t started chicken keeping yet but I’m here to learn all I can. My household just moved into a new house last spring with enough space to set up the small urban homestead of my dreams. We call it Peachy Keen Place. This season we are focusing on getting our vegetable...
  3. Kikilu

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  4. NewfoundMamaBird

    New Button Quail mama

    Good morning all, Just introducing myself as a long time lurker, first day member. Currently, besides the new buttons I hatched, I share my home with 3 rescue dogs that range in size from 7lbs to 80lbs. Moving on to how the buttons came about. My dream has always been a hobby farm where I can...
  5. S

    Thanks for letting me join your community

    My husband and I have a 4 hens and 1 rooster. I’m brand new to this, he had some when he was growing up. Just like our 4 dogs I’m getting the majority of the responsibility as he finds a new project or “toy” 😊 We purchased our flock from Tractor Supply about 7 months ago and the state we are in...
  6. B

    Newbie Small Flock

    Hi all! I have a small flock in Arkansas, 4 lovely ladies and a handsome roo. They are a free range flock and are my babies. I look forward to learning how to keep them happy and healthy. I am currently battling mites and I let them get too bad I feel. That will definitely be my first search...
  7. EriLynCap

    Newbie with potentially deteriorating chickens

    I apologize in advance for the length and for any future clarification questions. I am terrified of making things worse due to thinking I understand and being wrong. I have 4 chickens and a rooster. When I got them mid July they were this year's hens to my understanding and seemed very healthy...
  8. Yoberg

    Hello BYC Friends

    (Introduction) I’ve always wanted chickens to experience the whole egg/chick experience. But I’ve always been in suburbia “not zoned for chickens!☹️ BUT I’m experiencing the egg/chick thing with QUAIL! For 10 months now, I now have 9 female quail (the males are at freezer camp)😡. I purchased...
  9. A

    Preparing for chickens

    Hello! I have wanted chickens for a long time. My town doesn’t allow chickens unless I get a special permit from my city council. We are a rural community of about 1350 people so I am hoping that I won’t have any problems obtaining permission. After this is obtained I am ready to change an old...
  10. Zomestead

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  11. B

    Newbie again after not having chickens for a decade

    I moved back to the west coast to be with family recently after wandering around for about a decade. Now that I'm stationary I decided I want to have chickens again! Previously I had chickens in shared coops with friends, this is my first time being a Solo Chicken Owner. I impulse bought a...
  12. P

    Newbie to BYC; Chicken Farmer Since 2019

    Hello, all! I am a pretty new chicken farmer, but I love it! What got me started was two things: Drawing caricatures of kids (it was one of my regular jobs for decades!) and the Mark Lewis documentary, "The Natural History of the Chicken". If you haven't watched that, you can see it for free...
  13. K

    Hello chicken havers!

    I am very new to chicken keeping but I've been doing a ton of research on coops lately so that we can be prepared to get some chicks next spring! I'm a big DIYer and consider myself pretty handy. My hobbies are vast but all center around creating things, fixing things and visual artistry in...
  14. M

    Chicken transportation

    This may be a dumb question, but I’m new to this adventure of backyard chickens and don’t actually have any yet but was just curious how everyone transported their hens home from wherever they purchased them at? I have a medium size dog kennel that could fit in my suv but didn’t know if it was...
  15. TropicBirb

    Hello from Thailand, a Newbie

    Greetings from Thailand to all of you on BYC :) Still a newbie here. I've been raising chickens since Corona struck and got an offer to rescue Rhode Island Whites that were scheduled for culling. I have no prior experience, so it forces me to learn as I go. It's been an enjoyable ride as I...
  16. Chickn10der

    Hey Ya’ll 🐓

    I’m terrible with introductions, so I’m just going to do a lil copy/pasta 🙃 (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Pretty new. We had chickens and ducks off and on growing up. My husband grew up with Chickens. We got our first chicks for our home this spring. (2) How...
  17. Chickn10der

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  18. B

    Hi yall!

    Hey everybody! I'm a newbie here! I'd like to introduce myself and my feathered friends. I just start raising chickens a few months ago after a year of raising ducks. Ducks just werent for us. My family didnt lime the eggs. Anyway, I've got 4 new hampshire laying hens and 1 roo, 6 barred rocks...
  19. Justbackyardcrazy

    Evening everyone! New and no clue!

    Evening everyone, I’ve been on here getting some well needed advice from many of you seasoned chicken keepers, this is my first and probably last hatch. I sincerely don’t know how you guys do it. My hat goes off. I have a few eggs we decided to hatch from a farm but we haven’t any idea what they...
  20. G

    Chick pipped egg then died. Upon opening it hadn’t popped the air sac though.

    Hello! New here so I need some advice. I’m incubating chickens for the first time after mainly just doing quail. I ordered eggs on eBay and noticed an egg a little cracked on the outside but thought it’d be ok in the incubator ( might’ve been my first mistake ). Things go smoothly and I go into...
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