Greetings western New York!!

[ntink17]

Hello to all! Thought I'd introduce myself a bit! I'm from western New York (about an hour east of Buffalo) and have been a zookeeper for 12 years. I quit the field this summer due to family demands & relocating back to my hometown (I have three boys, the oldest is 8 and youngest is 17 months). Now I'm missing animals like CRAZY! We just moved into my family's farmhouse, and I'm hoping I can get some chickens for the... kids...(okay okay me too)! Unfortunately the huge coop here blew down in a storm about a decade ago, so I'm doing some reading to look into a good coop I can afford to build and is predator safe. Oh, and I can deworm a chicken in the blink of an eye! That comes from working in a zoo with curator who is chicken crazy, and one of my jobs was to deworm them monthly. I took care of a lot of other animals too mainly medium-to-small sized mammals and a variety of birds.

 

[Imp]

A warm welcome from an imp in Washington

Have fun on your chicken adventure.

Imp

 

[Chicken.Lytle]

Welcome to BYC and the world of small-scale animal management!

My BYC page points to some of my blog post that you might find informative or entertaining. I would suggest that you hit up Craigslist or similar for free building materials. My own coop is a recycling miracle with roots in my home.

You can certainly build a coop for little cost and minimal effort. Its not like the chooks will know the difference.

Be sure to check out the BYC coop page . If I had spent more time there with a ruler and graph paper, I would not have needed to correct so many mistakes with my first coop .

 

[4-H chicken mom]

and

from Ohio. So glad you joined.

 

[b.hromada]

and

from S. Florida! Glad you joined us! You sure had an interesting job!

You're gonna love having chickens.

 

[ibpboo]

 

[3chimama]

Welcome from Oregon!

 

[lolmom]

just wanted to say "HI!!"

 

[elieugene6]

Hi neighbor. I am about an hour northeast of buffalo on the shores of lake Ontario.

 

[Wild Trapper]

from Ohio