- Apr 15, 2011
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Hi all,
My wife and I have been reading and learning for over a year, so I figured we may as well officially join the club. A brief history of our chicken experience: A good friend of mine had to rehome a rooster, so he "dropped him off" at my new home in the country, which happens to be on a hundred acres. After about six weeks, I decided that the poor rooster has to be lonely, so we found a couple of hens on Craigslist and brought them home. It didn't take long and I got tired of them pooping on the carport, so I converted part of an old storage shed into a coop. A few weeks go by and I've managed to build a couple of feeders, waterers, and a roost. Now I'm attached and reasonably assume that these chickens need some chicks running around, and read on this site that many of the bantam breeds have broody tendencies. So, I find a man near me that has been breeding bantam chickens for 40+ years and is happy to sell me two banty cochins and a banty wyandotte. Three months later they do their job, we go to the feed store because, well we already have a broody and she may as well take care of these since she's taking care of her's, and before you know it we've got 15 chickens. Fast forward about 18 months, and we've got two roosters, twenty one hens, seven chicks in the brooder, a broody on six eggs (which i candled tonight and all look good, thanks for the candling thread Silkiechicken), a teacher friend at school with a dozen eggs in the incubator for class (we have to take whatever chicks hatch) and the same buddy that "dropped the rooster off" about to move and rehome all twelve of his chickens to my house!
My wife and I have been reading and learning for over a year, so I figured we may as well officially join the club. A brief history of our chicken experience: A good friend of mine had to rehome a rooster, so he "dropped him off" at my new home in the country, which happens to be on a hundred acres. After about six weeks, I decided that the poor rooster has to be lonely, so we found a couple of hens on Craigslist and brought them home. It didn't take long and I got tired of them pooping on the carport, so I converted part of an old storage shed into a coop. A few weeks go by and I've managed to build a couple of feeders, waterers, and a roost. Now I'm attached and reasonably assume that these chickens need some chicks running around, and read on this site that many of the bantam breeds have broody tendencies. So, I find a man near me that has been breeding bantam chickens for 40+ years and is happy to sell me two banty cochins and a banty wyandotte. Three months later they do their job, we go to the feed store because, well we already have a broody and she may as well take care of these since she's taking care of her's, and before you know it we've got 15 chickens. Fast forward about 18 months, and we've got two roosters, twenty one hens, seven chicks in the brooder, a broody on six eggs (which i candled tonight and all look good, thanks for the candling thread Silkiechicken), a teacher friend at school with a dozen eggs in the incubator for class (we have to take whatever chicks hatch) and the same buddy that "dropped the rooster off" about to move and rehome all twelve of his chickens to my house!
