hello from chick n goat ma

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chick n goat ma

chick n goat ma

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5 Years
Jul 22, 2014
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North Central Florida
I often searched the Internet for information on taking care of my lovely new chicks and kept coming across Backyard Chickens and was impressed by the good information.. I bought 8 hatch-lings 16 weeks ago.3 of them saddly died in the first week even tho I did everything right. ie, kept the temperature right, fed them chick starter from a feeder and water from a waterer and kept the large plastic box clean and lined with pine shavings. The remaining 5 chickens (now) have thrived and I love them very much. I also have 3 goats, the chickens and goats get on well together and as the goats free range on 1.5 acres of pasture and woodland I let the chicks have the pen to themselves all day.
 
Hello there and welcome to BYC!
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So sorry for your losses. Some chicks are just not meant to make it to adulthood. But it sounds like the ones you have left are doing great! So glad you are enjoying them. Just wait til that first egg! That will be THE most egg-citing moment of your chicken keeping life!
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Make yourself at home and we do welcome you to our flock!
 
Thankyou Two Crows,
I am very happy to be here.
I'm probably going to be a bit slow at first learning my way around the forum, but I have loads of questions I need to ask, one of my chooks is a bantam but she doesn't even look like a chicken now, she looks like a sweet little generic bird about the size of a large pigeon with an almost invisible little comb just beginning to appear and the two other (so called bantams) turn out to be feather footed cockerels, they are quite delightful and they are not fighting so I suspect I will keep both, and the other two are full size and look like cinnamon queens.. they all, like my goats, are pets that give (hopefully milk and eggs eventually) I do everything in my power to give them a good life.
 
Welcome to BYC! Glad you decided to join our flock. If you have Cinnamon Queens, you will get lots of eggs from them. Cinnamon Queen is one of the many hatchery labels for Red Sex Links and they are all egg laying machines. We had some Nubian goats when our children were small and now my son-in-law wants to get some goats. I'm all for it and willing to help him in any way I can. Good luck with your farm.
 
thankyou, it's not really a farm yet, I'm a total newb. My husband (retired from construction) built the goats pen and their little A frame shelter, and the chicken coop and run, he's great that way., I learned a couple of very hard lessons, when my first two little kid wethers were killed by a couple of roving dogs that burrowed under the fence one night.. We have since added an electric fence and all has been well with my new babies for 15 months now. We just added the chickens 15 weeks ago. my goats are boer/nigerian dwarf cosses, (The boer buck got into the dwarfs pen and raped her), they are the offspring of show champions but no use to him as cross breeds, my good luck. I bottle fed them for 3 months
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they think I'm their mama. and I have one more who is just one month younger than the twins, she has grown into a sweet and elegant Nubian, Pics of my chicks on the breed thread
 
thankyou, I have done that but I am very slow till I learn my way around. Such friendly and helpful people here.I am very much a novice but want to learn all I can to give my pets a good life.
 
I just posted, before I read yours, that one of my three goats is a nubian, she is beautiful kind of oriental looking and now fully grown is taller and slimmer than my twin (wether and doe) Boer/Nigerian dwarf pets(rape the seller told me)

Oh dear, I thought I was answering each individual, very kind, welcome message but it looks like all my replies are one on top of amnother... please forgive my awkwardness...I have a lot to learn
 

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