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@Armstrt8 - A big re-introduction welcome to you! :welcome

We are so happy to have you here at BYC, and to hear more about your future goals and experiences as a newer chicken keeper. We're also more than happy to help and offer any advice we can here- you're surrounded by a great community of folks who know their stuff.

What a great assortment of chickens you have (LOVE your EE's names. What a cute nod to Happy Feet!)

You mentioned being into metal detecting- what brand do you use? Had a White's YEARS ago but sold it, and looking back I guess it was for the best as technology upgrades. I was considering the brand again in the future, but I know there are more out there. Also, if you enjoy gardening, check out BYC's sister site called The Easy Garden. I've had alot of help from them in identifying plants over the past few years.

How do your family and little ones like the chickens? Do the children like to visit with them? Hopefully they'll grow into great little chicken keepers too! Again, we're so glad Google helped bring you here and that you've decided to join. Thanks for sharing the cute photo of the orderly line those awesome chickens have :lol:

What's this? HomesteaderWife's normal greeting chicken has been replaced it seems. You've been visited by The Welcome Tater!
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ValerieJ said:
Hi! :frow Welcome to BYC! You named a BO "Dinner"? :( I suspect you have fallen in love with her now, so she wont be. :D Where are you located? It is cold and frosty here too, but no snow yet.
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We did! She was mean! Originally, we planned to stick to the "legal" number of chickens (6) haha. Got 3 older Buff Orpingtons and ordered 5 chicks from Meyer Hatchery with the newbie expectation that one may arrive DOA. It didn't.. and instead Meyer sent a bonus chick so we ended up with 9! We were going to eat 3 once they were of age, but once they got to laying we realized our family can EASILY eat 9 chickens worth of eggs. A bonus was we didn't expect them to be so good! They are SOOO much more flavorful and a dark yellow color. A tad smaller than store bought, but 5x tasiter!

Thank you all for the warm welcome! Thank you Homesteader Wife!
I started Metal Detecting with a Tesoro Silver Umax and bought an Xterra 705 (I think thats the model) a few years ago. I have found much more still to this day with my Tesoro! Its not as costly a brand, but I am begining to think my Xterra may be traded for a gold Umax or something soon. Once you learn the tones of a brand its hard to change!

The kiddos love them so far. Our girl is 2.5 years old and her best pal is Amber haha! Amber was the most friendly chicken all the way from being a chick. We kept the 6 inside the porch when they were young and I would bring them outside to a little run/enclosure every morning and back in at night. Well... I would have to load the 5 of them into a small dog kennel, but Amber would just follow right behind! She would hop down the stairs of the porch and just walk right by our side out to the run. I have a picture somewhere of the little girl outside (no pants on!) with Amber chasing her, haha! That's a graduation picture for sure some day.

One thing I didn't mention before is I have had a green thumb my entire life. For a while I ran a microgreens business selling to local restaurants, and now that its winter with these chickens I have broken out the old microgreens gear! I am able to feed them a full tray of greens about every other day for a very minimal cost. Nice to get some use out of the old stuff! They get a variety of herbs, beets, sunflower, pea shoots, radish, etc etc.

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Another hobby is mushroom foraging. Still learning a bit but its already been enough to pay for the trips back and forth to the cabin :)
 
Armstrt8 said:
A bonus was we didn't expect them to be so good! They are SOOO much more flavorful and a dark yellow color. A tad smaller than store bought, but 5x tasiter!
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Your eggs will get bigger. My Buff Orpingtons lay larger eggs than any I can find in the store.

You lead a fascinating life. Love the microgreens.
 

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