Chicken Little

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Good for you for taking the time to fulfill your and your wife's dreams. Some day, you will tell her all about it!

 

[KLIL]

Hello from down under Australia and welcome to BYC!
You are going to love it here.

Feel free to pop by and share your daily updates for 2019 too.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flock-life-journeys-2019.1286370/

Lovely to meet you and hope to speak more.

 

[drumstick diva]

Hope you will enjoy Backyard Chickens as much as we do.

 

[alexa009]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens! We are glad you joined the flock! BYC is a helpful site providing all of the information you need to know about poultry. There is always space for members on the BYC roost!
I have deep sympathy for your loss! I bet it was tough. If egg production isn't important to you when choosing a breed, I would recommend Buff Orpingtons, Easter eggers or Plymouth Rocks. I have never experienced any bossy behavior with any of them either.

Hope you enjoy it here as much as we all do!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

So sorry for your loss

As you plan your coop and run, remember 1/2" hardware cloth, held down with screws and fender washers are your best defense against predators, add a little hot wire and even better.

 

[JedJackson]

Welcome to BYC. I'm sorry you've lost the love of your life, that has got to be tough and quite an adjustment. I hope this website will be useful to you in starting up your new hobby with chickens. Just about anything you want to know is available with the search button, and the forums are always open for questions.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy

Thanks for joining us!

 

[NonnasBabies]

Welcome!

 

[silverpeak]

Hello, and welcome! If you get chick's, they usually come as un-sexed. Sometime's they say that the chicks are pullet's, but as they grow turn out to be boy's. If you want to avoid that trouble and make sure that you won't end up with any boy's, I would get them at point of lay. That way you will know that they are really ladies.

Thanks for the info. No boys wanted although would love to rankle my neighbor with a very loud rooster.

 

[silverpeak]

Welcome!

When I say I am a newbie, I am referring to raising chickens as a hobby. I paid my way through private school by caring for thousands of layers in the school's egg producing "factory". Hated cage and wire-birds who never touched the ground upset me greatly. I guess I want to make amends with my own humanely treated flock.