From London to Chicken Land.......

kestrelcliff · Sep 25, 2012

Hi to all from the UK,
We are a couple from south west England who at one point in our crazy equine world adopted a whole range of roo's, hens and ducks. Apart from our busy life with a herd of sixteen (inc nine donkey's) we awoke one morning to find we were now the worried owners of a great number of chickens. We stood and scratched our heads for awhile and then thought "oh well, it can't be that hard to look after them". How wrong were we. After months and months of trial, error and building many a new run we are slowly learning and truely enjoying our boys and girls. We are still having some sleepless nights though. We have started breeding and now have a happy bunch of white sumatras who are heavily guarded : ) Recently while working at an agricultural show we entered one of our OEG birds on the off chance. We just thought he was a nice looking bird and didn't really have a clue but in for a penny etc. To our amazement he won best of class. That was that.....we are now hooked and our boy has his own golden perch.
We are glad we joined and have already got some answers to many a question we have had during our journey.
Great site.

chickenquail · Sep 25, 2012

OMG I love equine animals
LOL horses just love them
Sometimes i cry myself to sleep because i want one so bad.
But the good thing is i have my 2 fav animal which is pretty much level with horses is my chickens.
I'm so glad ur roo got 1 place

omaeve · Sep 25, 2012

WELCOME TO BYC THE LARGEST CHICKEN SITE IN USA. we talk a like on here some breeds like silkies talk so much if you go to bathroom you might be 4 or 5 pages behind lol ..go to https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/newestpost/709480 ( what breed do you have?) and list your breeds..be sure to post lots and lots of pictures for us to drool over..WE LIKE REALY LARGE PICTURES HERE so we can see every detail of your bird and like to have head shots too.If you have Cream Legbars ? We have just imported them from UK and are a crazy wonderful group on here and would love your input...again welcome to byc