Finally A Chicken Mama!

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Good luck with your new flock and getting into nursing school.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC and congrats on your new hobby.

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. Use the BYC search facility to find other country / regional threads.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC.
We are glad you joined this flock!
Jump right in and make yourself at home.

This video will help you learn how to navigate this site (how to upload photos too):

Coop Ideas:
Chicken Coops.

What exactly did you Google to get here? <<<<<<<<<<<Click there to go to the thread.

BYC has an APP!

 

[IJsChickenMama]

Hi and welcome to BYC and congrats on your new hobby.

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. Use the BYC search facility to find other country / regional threads.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

Thank you for the links!

 

[IJsChickenMama]

Welcome to BYC.
We are glad you joined this flock!
Jump right in and make yourself at home.

This video will help you learn how to navigate this site (how to upload photos too):

Coop Ideas:
Chicken Coops.

What exactly did you Google to get here? <<<<<<<<<<<Click there to go to the thread.

BYC has an APP!

thank you!!

 

[IJsChickenMama]

hello @IJsChickenMama ! welcome to BYC
it sounds like you are already very good at this!

aw, well thank you.. encouraging words! I have tried my best to prepare as much as I can in advance with knowledge, but there is SO much to learn through experience so I hope to one day feel like I've earned being "good" at having chickens.

 

[IJsChickenMama]

Weirdo? You sound like a PERFECT BYC member!! And a pretty interesting person!!

As far as your "olive egger," I know Hoover's Hatchery promotes its Olive Egger as coming from "a couple of different crosses," including their Americana, which is itself a mix, and French Cuckoo Maran. In other words, a designer chicken that MAY lay a speckled green egg or a brown egg.

I have two of the "Americanas," which are just Easter eggers that MAY lay blue or green eggs. But Evie and Audrey have so much personality, that I will adore them even if they lay run-of-the-mill brown.

Good luck with your flock, your gardening and your finals! Let us know if you do cry when that first egg pops out. Lol.

I'm the same, honestly even though eggs were a HUGE part of wanting chickens, they are such members of the family now that if they never laid an egg I wouldn't even be tempted to get rid of them!

 

[IJsChickenMama]

Thank you everyone, what a good community this seems to be.

 

[Duck_life]

Hello and welcome to BYC!!! happy to have you and your flock join all of us! you picked the right place to be for advice, etc

 

[Helloworld]

Hi! Thanks for sharing. So you got ur first 8 chickens! That wont be the end of your number lol.

Isbars lay green eggs don’t they?
Americana is blue?