Krich2683
In the Brooder
Hello!! Introductory post here:
My name is Karen and my family got our first chickens March 13th of this year! While covid certainly expedited our chicken journey, it had been the plan to get them anyway since we purchased our first home in October 2019.
We started with 18 pullets, which ended up being 15 ladies and 3 gentlemen. We lost our first chicken to a hawk a few days ago. And since begining, have added 4 guinea keets (lost one) and 4 Isa Browns, all of which are around 4 weeks old. And most recently, I decided to incubate some eggs from a local hatchery and have successfully hatched 7 of the 10 viable eggs. I asked for just any random variety and that's what it seems like we have. I know 3 are Americauna and 2 are marans and (fingers crossed) 1 is looking like an Ayem Cemani. Waiting on 3 more to hatch, as it's only day 22 I still have hopes they will hatch. Debating on whether to do a float test. We shall see
Other than the chickens, we have a Doberman, 2 American bullies, a green cheek conure, a hedgehog and a big fat lazy cat.
Super excited to have found this forum since I'm a chicken newbie but obsessed already
My name is Karen and my family got our first chickens March 13th of this year! While covid certainly expedited our chicken journey, it had been the plan to get them anyway since we purchased our first home in October 2019.
We started with 18 pullets, which ended up being 15 ladies and 3 gentlemen. We lost our first chicken to a hawk a few days ago. And since begining, have added 4 guinea keets (lost one) and 4 Isa Browns, all of which are around 4 weeks old. And most recently, I decided to incubate some eggs from a local hatchery and have successfully hatched 7 of the 10 viable eggs. I asked for just any random variety and that's what it seems like we have. I know 3 are Americauna and 2 are marans and (fingers crossed) 1 is looking like an Ayem Cemani. Waiting on 3 more to hatch, as it's only day 22 I still have hopes they will hatch. Debating on whether to do a float test. We shall see
Other than the chickens, we have a Doberman, 2 American bullies, a green cheek conure, a hedgehog and a big fat lazy cat.
Super excited to have found this forum since I'm a chicken newbie but obsessed already
