Halloooo, Chicks ‘n’ ‘Ckens!

[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! Sorry to hear of your losses.

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[drumstick diva]

Hope you will enjoy Backyard Chickens as much as we do.

 

[shayann]

Hey there and

 

[DiYMama540]

Belated welcome to BYC! You will find a couple threads here about keeping bachelor flocks! Best of luck!

 

[CamTheChknKeeper]

we got a bit of snow here too; I have two Roos who’re sharing an up/down duplex inside an old raised-beds garden. The coop and run are screwed securely down to a solid wooden deck, but the garden has just deer fencing and no top netting except over a dog kennel to make a safe space for the newer Roo.. our birds are Orpington and Astralorp, hopefully too big to be prey for the hawks in our neighborhood.

The chair is a favorite perch for my Orp in other weather, and the weed hanging over the line swings in a breeze and gives him something interesting to investigate. Once he comes down into the yard again I will put gobs of peanut butter or suet with seeds mixed in on the ends of the branches.
The tripod holds a cabbage-on-a-rope, but nobody’s interested in it yet.

I’ve just this evening learned that I can put shavings or hay on top of the snow to encourage them to come out. Looking forward to the morning!

 

[TwoCrows]

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we got a bit of snow here too; I have two Roos who’re sharing an up/down duplex inside an old raised-beds garden. The coop and run are screwed securely down to a solid wooden deck, but the garden has just deer fencing and no top netting except over a dog kennel to make a safe space for the newer Roo.. our birds are Orpington and Astralorp, hopefully too big to be prey for the hawks in our neighborhood.

The chair is a favorite perch for my Orp in other weather, and the weed hanging over the line swings in a breeze and gives him something interesting to investigate. Once he comes down into the yard again I will put gobs of peanut butter or suet with seeds mixed in on the ends of the branches.
The tripod holds a cabbage-on-a-rope, but nobody’s interested in it yet.

I’ve just this evening learned that I can put shavings or hay on top of the snow to encourage them to come out. Looking forward to the morning!

Ooh thats a lot of snow!

 

[CamTheChknKeeper]

Ooh thats a lot of snow!

Yes, it was only from the one big snow that came through; thank goodness for YakTrax on my boots! (And ObOy am I glad I got a sturdy coop kit!)

 

[TwoCrows]

Yes, it was only from the one big snow that came through; thank goodness for YakTrax on my boots! (And ObOy am I glad I got a sturdy coop kit!)

Please stay warm out there!

 

[drumstick diva]

I'm getting winter chills just looking at the photos