Hi! I'm brand new to the site, and I've had chickens for a few months. It's been something of a rollicking adventure getting started in the hobby, but I've enjoyed it a lot! I've changed coops once, built all kinds of things for them to sit on, roost on, lay in and get under. We've hatched eggs, raised a bunch of chicks in a brooder, and fought off intruders. I once fought a corn snake up and down our side yard after it killed a chick. Seriously, epic poems will be written about that fight. I nursed one hen back to health after she went a round with a fox that was after her chicks.
Currently, we have a black Australorp, a buff Silkie and a Barred Rock hen in our little backyard. We're raising some Black Copper Marans in the hopes of getting one hen to keep from the four we have, and selling the rest. They're from Wade Jeane's C1 line, feather shanked and just beautiful!
As for non-chickeny stuff ... I'm a writer in Arlington, TX. I stay home with 2 little boys. I do a lot of gardening, when the chickens aren't tearing up my beds! I am getting into organic, sustainable methods of living, which is where the idea for the chickens initially came from. I want my kids to have a more grounded, immediately connection with their food and the nature of the world.
Thank you in advance for being such a great source of information! I'm glad I finally made my way over here. Hopefully I'll be able to offer a little advice to those who are even more newbie than myself.
-Julie
Currently, we have a black Australorp, a buff Silkie and a Barred Rock hen in our little backyard. We're raising some Black Copper Marans in the hopes of getting one hen to keep from the four we have, and selling the rest. They're from Wade Jeane's C1 line, feather shanked and just beautiful!
As for non-chickeny stuff ... I'm a writer in Arlington, TX. I stay home with 2 little boys. I do a lot of gardening, when the chickens aren't tearing up my beds! I am getting into organic, sustainable methods of living, which is where the idea for the chickens initially came from. I want my kids to have a more grounded, immediately connection with their food and the nature of the world.
Thank you in advance for being such a great source of information! I'm glad I finally made my way over here. Hopefully I'll be able to offer a little advice to those who are even more newbie than myself.
-Julie
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