Before or After

[Southernbelle]

Before


I always wanted them. Never understood why, but who can explain insanity?

 

[setter4]

Quote:
to answer the 2nd question...
What possessed you to put chickens in your backyard?
A friend found out about Mad City Chickens and got me and another friend interested. We decided to all get chickens. The chicks arrived and I have all of them! The other 2 "chickened out" on me!

 

[speckledhen]

Before, but it wasn't this BYC, it was the other one, of which I'm still a member.

 

[Chicken Boo]

I had my chickens for ~9 months before I found BYC


A friend offered me 4 chickens that she thought she did not have enough time for. It had never occurred to me to have chickens until she did this. I am so glad she did. They have been a joy.

 

[Mahonri]

Looks like almost an even split but most found it after.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

I found it after.

got tired of raising gamebirds, needed some birds that were easier to raise and be pets for the kids.

 

[mlmadura]

I was on BYC 3 weeks before my chicks came - i had to do "chicken research"

I got my chickes because gas went up and eggs went to $2.. a dozen and I was determined to protest!!!!!! no matter what the cost of setting up chickens lol

Now they are my "darlings" hehe

 

[DuckLady]

Did you find BYC before or after you got chickens?

I found BYC in Nov 2003 before I got the ducks I wanted. I researched as much as possible so I had a good grounding in how to care for them, housing feeding and general raising. I wanted to be sure I knew what I was getting into. By March 2004, I was ready and I got my first ducks.

What possessed you to put chickens in your backyard?

Who wouldn't want ducks?

 

[Poppycock]

Did you find BYC before or after you got chickens?

Before - and I was a lurker for several months before I joined.

What possessed you to put chickens in your backyard?

I grew up on a farm in Maryland, and have always loved learning how to do things they way things used to be done. And I like to know where my food comes from and what's in it. I day dreamed about milking my own cows and making my own butter and cheese. Well, we can't have large animals where we live, but we can have chickens! I had been reading The Encyclopedia of Country Living and had gotten some books out of the library about raising backyard chickens. I Googled some chicken questions and came across BYC (and I've been hooked ever since

.) My DH could see that I was kind of pining for my farm roots, so for Mother's Day this year, he built me a chicken coop! (He calls it the Chicken Hilton and my twins call it the Chick Inn). It has been a looooooong project and we are still working on the run, but it's almost done. We got 10 - day old chicks back in May thinking we surely would loose some due to newbie ignorance, and a few more than we thought we'd need in case some turned out to be roosters, which we didn't want. Well, we managed to raise all 10 safely, and only 1 turned out to be a roo, and 3 out of the 9 just started laying this month

. Thanks to all the great people here on BYC, our first experience of chicken raising has so far, been very rewarding. Thanks everybody!

 

[redhead83402]

Did you find BYC before or after you got chickens?

After... sort of ~ I saw the handsome little devils at the feed store ( they don't make it easy on you, advertized right out there on the billboard ~NEW BABY CHICKS $1.29 ea ~), went in to check them out, decided I would ~ever-so-gently~ break the lovely idea to my patient husband... acted like I sorta knew what I was talking about, (har! I don't think he was fooled!) then had to look up info to back it all up, he actually said "Hmm, I think this might be one of your better ideas"... I started combing the web like mad, and VOILA!!! BYC was FOUND! ;-D



What possessed you to put chickens in your backyard?


Well, afterall, where else was I going to put them? Besides which, I am already sort of dubbed ~Weird~ by those who know me; I homeschool, I am always selling (& buying) stuff on ebay, I cook from scratch, and we heat our home with a woodstove. Shoot, folks in my neighborhood already thought we'd gone off the deep end ~ why not convince them of the truth of it, and have some chickens to show for it too? Besides all that, I am into USEFUL pets, ones that sort of pay for their living. Cats keep away mice, & chickens not only give you eggs, but they taste mighty fine as well! That's a dual purpose pet if I ever heard of one. :-D
~Red