Floridian starting out with major chick raising

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Nope, first time was about 10 years ago we raised a single Rhode Island Red hen and had a mallard drake together.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now? We got 25 chicks yesterday.

(3) What breeds do you have? We got an assorted mix

(4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com? The glories of google for showing this site every time I had a question when we had our sultan/silkie cross.

(5) What are some of your other hobbies? Too busy to get more than taking care of chickens or vegging on on the internet.

(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share

I'm a student right now and 25 new chicks are a handful. The family only watches and gives aid when asked. Though they love hatching kookie ideas that stress out the chick because sun+stress is better than contentment with a red lamp.

We got the chicks for a tax deduction and eggs. And I think my fam is trying to make me forget the cross hen we lost that I took on as my child with how I fussed over it

 

Quote:Please tell me more about this tax deduction

I don't know much about it. My mother is handling that because a friend told her about. But what I do know you need at least twelve chickens and you get to count a farm which has some discounts. And some of your cost of care and maintence of the chooks are paid for. But I thought it was only 100 per animal