Hello Everyone!

[Chuckaluckachicken]

I am extremely new to chickens. I got my first 5 chicks about 3 weeks ago. I am looking forward to all the advice I can get.
I have 2 golden Comets and 3 Rhoade Island Reds. All Pullets.
I am really looking forward to these gals being pets as well as great egg producers.

My husband and I bought a 20 acre farm about 3 years ago. We don't have children but we do have 12 four legged fur babies.
13 year old great pyr, named Chisos, 12 year old Choco Lab named Yogi, and a 10 year old rat terrier name Pickles. We also have 9 kitties. Gargamel, Nax, Spackles, Pinkey, The Brain, Arrow, Archer, Subfloofer, and Ninah.
We love to garden. We also lend our land to our neighbors 12 cows. We just had our third calf of the spring.

 

[drumstick diva]

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

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC.
We are glad you joined this flock!
Jump right in and make yourself at home.

This video will help you learn how to navigate this site (how to upload photos too):

Coop Ideas:
Chicken Coops.

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[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[TheFirstLadiesChickens]

Hi! Welcome to BYC!

I would just like to let you know that you will enjoy having Rhode Island Reds! They are great egg layers and the first ones to start laying in our flock! It sounds like you are going to have happy chickens with all that land. Do you have a coop ready for when they are older? It's good to have one ready.

Also, here is a link if you want to grow some things in your garden that will benefit your chickens: https://insteading.com/blog/chicken-friendly-plants/

Good luck! Having chickens is an exciting, challenging some of the time, but over all fun experience! If you ever have any problems I know a lot of people on here are always willing to help.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC

Here are some links to key resources:

• List of guides on how to use the site - announcements-feedback-issues-guides.3
• Great resource for beginners = https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/learning-center.11/
• Good starting point for browsing the site - https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/
• Interesting feedback on how members manage their flocks -https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/topic-of-the-week-thread-archives
• Excellent source of local information - Find your State's thread.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Welcome to Backyard Chickens
Good look with your not so little chicks anymore!

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Miss Piggy Sue says, “Welcome to our eggcelent flock here at BYC!”

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC - good luck with your flock and pets.