Getting Chickens This Weekend!!

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We are new to the world of raising/caring for chickens. We have been buying local farm fresh eggs for many many years and decided over the winter to jump in and try to have our own chickens. We have a 22 year old son who has Down syndrome and loves animals. This is going to be mainly his project with support from us. He is going to sell the extra eggs to help offset the costs and give him a little pocket change (we'll pay him for our eggs too!). We currently pay $5.00 a dozen for our eggs and we have a list of people who want to be our son's 1st customers :)

We are starting with 10 chickens. We are picking them up this weekend and they are 17 weeks old. We plan on feeding them organic feed pellets and our table scraps. We belong to local CSA's for our veggies and meats so we often have lots of "left over" veggies that I am sure the girls will love!

We're a little nervous after doing the reading about all the things we need to be looking out for but after raising 3 children we figure we can probably handle it. We do have 3 golden retrievers so we are a little worried about their interactions but we have a plan in place to keep everyone safe!

I am glad to have found this site and look forward to being educated by the "professionals" who are currently raising backyard chickens.

Tanya, Chuck, Garrett & Kate
 
Hello there and welcome to BYC! :frow

Congrats on the soon to be new chickens! :clap You will learn in time what they need and such. And by watching them closely, eventually you will learn how to read them as to what they need. Definitely stop by our Learning Center for all kinds of good reads on all the aspects of keeping poultry... https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/

And of course if you have questions along the way, but sure and ask. Welcome to our group! :)
 
Hi Tanya and welcome to BYC :frow We're so happy you've decided to join us :ya

We have a contest going on right now just for new folks like you. In order to enter you'll need to copy the link from your first post in this thread and post it in the contest thread.

To copy your link address, right click on the link to your thread and click copy or copy link
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then click on the following URL
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...t-new-byc-members-win-a-byc-calendar.1287752/
Go down to where it says "write your reply..." tell us this is your entry and then click on the link button
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Paste your URL into the box and click "insert", then click "Post Reply".
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That's all there is to it. Once you've finished this, you're eligible to win a nice BYC Calendar.
 

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