Hello Everyone,
Let me just start by saying that I've been perusing these boards for a very long time now and have to thank you for such a great resource. I thought I would finally sign up.
My name is Cherith and I'm Canadian, from the Vancouver area but relocated about 7 years ago to the Bahamas. We finally finished building our home on acreage last year and just a couple of months ago picked up four hens and a rooster from a local farmer.
I thought it would be lovely to have a few eggs and that would be the end of it.
In fact I really thought the lot of you a bit barmy over your chickens. Oy. guess what? it happened to me.
When we picked them up they were rather wild as they were in a very tightly packed pen in a bit of a ramshackle farm. Now these girls have loads of outdoor space and I just sit with them for hours a day. outside their pen just watching them. I've been touched by the chicken fever and can't get enough of my girls. When they free range now they follow me whereever I go.
I just hatched five eggs and ended up with four pullets and one cockerel and now i have visions of devoting a half acre to perches and shelter and mixing planting it with papayas and whatnot for a whole permaculture environment for them. Of course adding a few select breeds...
ok, now I'm just rambling but i thought I'd say hi. I'm as barmy as the rest of you.
Let me just start by saying that I've been perusing these boards for a very long time now and have to thank you for such a great resource. I thought I would finally sign up.
My name is Cherith and I'm Canadian, from the Vancouver area but relocated about 7 years ago to the Bahamas. We finally finished building our home on acreage last year and just a couple of months ago picked up four hens and a rooster from a local farmer.
I thought it would be lovely to have a few eggs and that would be the end of it.
In fact I really thought the lot of you a bit barmy over your chickens. Oy. guess what? it happened to me.
When we picked them up they were rather wild as they were in a very tightly packed pen in a bit of a ramshackle farm. Now these girls have loads of outdoor space and I just sit with them for hours a day. outside their pen just watching them. I've been touched by the chicken fever and can't get enough of my girls. When they free range now they follow me whereever I go.
I just hatched five eggs and ended up with four pullets and one cockerel and now i have visions of devoting a half acre to perches and shelter and mixing planting it with papayas and whatnot for a whole permaculture environment for them. Of course adding a few select breeds...
ok, now I'm just rambling but i thought I'd say hi. I'm as barmy as the rest of you.
and Welcome To BYC! Congratulations on the successful hatch! Sounds like chicken math is taking hold, you'll fit right in around here. Bet you were glad you were in the Bahamas this winter!
