Greetings from Frankfurt, Germany

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from Kansas! Glad you joined the forum!

1. I am recently new to chickens - I had them a million years ago when I was a kid. This past year I started missing the taste of farm raised chickens and decided to take the plunge. I am so glad I did!
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2. I had 35 earlier but right now I have just 6 after processing. That number will jump to 31 here in about a week as I have a new batch of chicks set to come in - about 1/2 for eggs and 1/2 to process for meat.

3. Right now I have 4 Easter Eggers about 6 months old and 2 wheaten marans chicks about 2 weeks old. I will be getting in the following chicks next week: 13 straight run Cornish X, and hens will be: 2 Buff Orpingtons, 1 black star, 1 red star, 2 anconas, 2 Black Australorps, 2 Delawares, and 2 Easter Eggers.

4. I found BYC doing an internet search for chicken coops. Sure am glad as I've learned a lot.

5. Hobbies: hunting, fishing, reading, beer making, gardening, dogs.

6. I am a school guidance counselor, have a fiance', two labrador retrievers, one of which is my avatar!

Welcome to the forum!!
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Welcome to the site from Chicago. I have 7 Australorps here in the City. My grandmother had chickens and also one of my brothers - hope my other brother gets some but right now it's super hot down in Texas where he lives. I also have a small tree farm in NW Illinois. I like to play blues, brew beer, write, and shoot trap.
 
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Thanks for that ... that's truly helpful. We had noticed that there was a "mix" aspect to their coloration. When I look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Link , I think we're getting closer to identifying the rooster as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Beautiful_Roo_by_sejr.jpg .

P.S. The term "Sex Link(ed)s" comes across a bit humorously in German, because "Geschlecht" is "gender" but "Sex" is a borrowed word for, well, "sex" and "Links" means "left" or another borrowed term for internet URLs. To the German ear, "Red Sex Links" sounds like a website for people with a procilivity for those of a certain political bent!
 
Shiner Bock is the one beer Germans visiting America drink with gusto!
 
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Well, here it is October first and we're about five months into our chicken odyssey, and all I can say is that it has exceeded all expectations. We're getting about 3-4 eggs per day, and the upkeep is a snap on our little farmette.

Unexpected aspects: 1) The overall quality of the Eglu cube ... what a great piece of engineering; worth every penny. 2) The eggs are super-high quality. One can see that upon cracking them into the frying pan ... I didn't eat a lot of eggs before, but am eating more now and I don't think I'll ever go back to store-bought. 3) The chicken manure composts down nicely in our thermal composters mixed with some grass clippings. When the chickens were smaller, we had them parked down by the vegetable garden before we moved them closer to the house on the lower meadow. The spot over which the Eglu sat has absolutely exploded with grass in the exact shape of the wire run; there must be something to the magical powers of chicken offal. 4) We have no garden waste whatsoever now ... old spinach, carrot greens, slugged lettuce and pretty much everything else that used to go to the town dump or into the composter now goes into the chicken run. 5) I recently forgot to set an alarm before an important business trip, but our rooster did the trick!

What a wonderfully pleasant experience this has been!
 

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