Lids
Songster
Hello, all you BYC Members,
My name is Lids and I am new to being a chicken keeper. (Wow, sounds like AA
--not that I am making light of anyone who has such tribulations.)
I got my first chickens on the 8th of May this year. My daughter texted me if I wanted chickens and while I was still thinking about it, she arrived with them in the back of her little car in crates. 3 Brown hens, 1 speckled B&W hen and 1 standard rooster. (I have no idea of the breeds, if any, and assume they are just bog standard common and garden variety chickens.) They were about 14 weeks old.
We own a backpackers, but as this was during our country's (South Africa, KZN, Palm Beach) hard Lockdown on account of Covid-19, we emptied out one of our A-frames where our chooks stayed until August, when we moved them to the new coop we built.
It was 2 months before they started laying eggs (end of June) and what an exciting time! Such cute little eggies. ☺. I love our farm fresh, free pasture, nutritious, delicious eggs.
Currently all 4 hens are sitting on eggs, so unhappily no more eggs for us for a while. I just hope some of these eggs hatch, because sometimes the mamas seem like they completely forget about them... you can SEE when the memory strikes and they urgently return...after a couple of hours!
I have also, since the chickens, decided to start with some BYF (backyard farming) but seem to have the same success rate as the chickens with chicks. I have realized with successive short sharp shocks that the dear chickens and veggie patches don't mix well. But their scratch sure likes to germinate.
Another of my hobbies is picking up trash wherever I go. I pretend it's like hunting Easter eggs (remember when we were kids
?) It is very good training for the eye. Mostly, I walk along the beach (aren't I just so super lucky?), cleaning it up as I go along in the company of my bestest friend, Terror, a Great Dane x Dalmatian x Rhodesian Ridgeback x Pointer x Labrador. We often find treasure. I once picked up a GoPro. 
I like reading, the natural world, and seeing figures and faces in all kinds of places.
I lived in Taiwan for 10 years (2005-2015) and taught English to kids there. Now, I am living the life of a retiree on a shoestring budget, but am completely debt-free.
I met BYC online, since it came up when I googled my problems or questions. I joined a month or so ago, but didn't post a "hi, I'm new" immediately.
I have had a rich and varied life (you'd think it were fiction if I told you...) with an abundance of heartache, but am now happily settled with a gorgeous fella who loves me to bits.
My name is Lids and I am new to being a chicken keeper. (Wow, sounds like AA
--not that I am making light of anyone who has such tribulations.)I got my first chickens on the 8th of May this year. My daughter texted me if I wanted chickens and while I was still thinking about it, she arrived with them in the back of her little car in crates. 3 Brown hens, 1 speckled B&W hen and 1 standard rooster. (I have no idea of the breeds, if any, and assume they are just bog standard common and garden variety chickens.) They were about 14 weeks old.
We own a backpackers, but as this was during our country's (South Africa, KZN, Palm Beach) hard Lockdown on account of Covid-19, we emptied out one of our A-frames where our chooks stayed until August, when we moved them to the new coop we built.
It was 2 months before they started laying eggs (end of June) and what an exciting time! Such cute little eggies. ☺. I love our farm fresh, free pasture, nutritious, delicious eggs.
Currently all 4 hens are sitting on eggs, so unhappily no more eggs for us for a while. I just hope some of these eggs hatch, because sometimes the mamas seem like they completely forget about them... you can SEE when the memory strikes and they urgently return...after a couple of hours!
I have also, since the chickens, decided to start with some BYF (backyard farming) but seem to have the same success rate as the chickens with chicks. I have realized with successive short sharp shocks that the dear chickens and veggie patches don't mix well. But their scratch sure likes to germinate.
Another of my hobbies is picking up trash wherever I go. I pretend it's like hunting Easter eggs (remember when we were kids
?) It is very good training for the eye. Mostly, I walk along the beach (aren't I just so super lucky?), cleaning it up as I go along in the company of my bestest friend, Terror, a Great Dane x Dalmatian x Rhodesian Ridgeback x Pointer x Labrador. We often find treasure. I once picked up a GoPro. I like reading, the natural world, and seeing figures and faces in all kinds of places.
I lived in Taiwan for 10 years (2005-2015) and taught English to kids there. Now, I am living the life of a retiree on a shoestring budget, but am completely debt-free.
I met BYC online, since it came up when I googled my problems or questions. I joined a month or so ago, but didn't post a "hi, I'm new" immediately.
I have had a rich and varied life (you'd think it were fiction if I told you...) with an abundance of heartache, but am now happily settled with a gorgeous fella who loves me to bits.
