(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - I've been helping with my friend's flock for about 18 months now. She gave us 4 of her hens in the spring, once we built our own coop. I ordered 3 more females from a hatchery in August. Four arrived, thrived, and here we are!
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 4 adults and 4 9 1/2 week olds.
(3) What breeds do you have? The adults - Barred Plymoth Rock (2 yo, named Roxy Dangervest), Cackle Hatchery Easter Egger (1 year old, named RainbowChickenDinosaur), Welsummer (1 year old, named Miss Ruffles), and Black Amercuana (1 year old, named EnderLily). The babies - 2 Cackle Hatchery Easter Eggers and 2 Buff Orpingtons, all born 24 August 2020.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? Eggs
But we also enjoy hanging out with them. The kids love to feed them.
(5) What are some of your other hobbies? 3 kids, multiple pets, and homeschooling don't really leave "hobby" time!
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share. We used to be reptile keepers, before we had kids! We closed up the breeding operation and let that scaled crew naturally pass for several years before we decided to have kids.
(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community? It's been recommended often. I finally joined today because I'm terribly sad that one of our Buff Orpingtons is apparently a boy. We've thought so since 6 weeks, but we kept hoping we were wrong. I'd specifically ordered a "small city/town" order of females to avoid this, as we cannot have a rooster here and I knew that we'd get attached to whatever we raised
. I don't mind roosters personally, my friend has one and he's a champ, but the houses are much too close here for the noise. The hatchery sexing rate for the Buffs is only 85-90% though, I should've clicked sex link, but I really wanted a pair of Orpingtons! Now we are attached and are still going to have to give him up. He can probably go live at my friend's, if we get him there in time there are enough females and space that the existing rooster might allow it, but it's a gamble. I really don't want him to go and showed up here to poke around for hope with some of the other Orpington pictures, but I think we're 98% sure now that she is a he, so heartbreak's coming. Such a sweet chicken, too.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now? 4 adults and 4 9 1/2 week olds.
(3) What breeds do you have? The adults - Barred Plymoth Rock (2 yo, named Roxy Dangervest), Cackle Hatchery Easter Egger (1 year old, named RainbowChickenDinosaur), Welsummer (1 year old, named Miss Ruffles), and Black Amercuana (1 year old, named EnderLily). The babies - 2 Cackle Hatchery Easter Eggers and 2 Buff Orpingtons, all born 24 August 2020.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? Eggs
But we also enjoy hanging out with them. The kids love to feed them.(5) What are some of your other hobbies? 3 kids, multiple pets, and homeschooling don't really leave "hobby" time!
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share. We used to be reptile keepers, before we had kids! We closed up the breeding operation and let that scaled crew naturally pass for several years before we decided to have kids.
(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community? It's been recommended often. I finally joined today because I'm terribly sad that one of our Buff Orpingtons is apparently a boy. We've thought so since 6 weeks, but we kept hoping we were wrong. I'd specifically ordered a "small city/town" order of females to avoid this, as we cannot have a rooster here and I knew that we'd get attached to whatever we raised
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thanks for sharing! Make yourself at home here and welcome to our community!
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