How exciting for you! Congrats on the chickens. Never the wrong age to learn and chickens are (fairly) easy keepers.
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Hey! I live in Spanish Fork. We have 12 children, 39 grandchildren, 3 coming from a son that just married a gal that had three..but they are part of us now! Going on 3rd great grandchild. I'm 65. Hubby is 71. We did the his mine and ours. He had 7, I had 4, we had one together. Whew, glad things have worked out with them all. They really do care about each other, help each other out. Pretty cool. So, there's some news for everyone here! Ha.... Anyway, glad you found us, BYC is great. I learned, and am still learning a lot from this Forum. The Utah thread used to be a hoot, and we used to sell and trade a lot, but it's died down for some reason. Life happens, other things come up.
Hi and welcome to BYC - I’m glad that you are going to be able to fulfill your life-long ambition to have a flock of your own.
Here are some links to key resources:
- List of guides on how to use the site - announcements-feedback-issues-guides.3
- Great resource for beginners = https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/learning-center.11/
- Good starting point for browsing the site - https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/
- Interesting feedback on how members manage their flocks -https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/topic-of-the-week-thread-archives
- Excellent source of local information - Find your State's thread.
Best wishes
Pork Pie