Hello from Leicestershire (UK)

[mrrossi]

Hi all

New to the forum and the world of chicks! To answer the template questions:

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? - yes, recently got 8 fertilised eggs; 6 chicks (Rhode Island Reds) have hatched!

(2) How many chickens do you have right now? - 6

(3) What breeds do you have? - Rhode Island Red (RIR)

(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens? - new to this, exciting!

(5) What are some of your other hobbies? - cars, travelling, DIY

(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share. - 2 children, one cat, Technical Architect (IT)

(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community? - Came across when researching via Google when first thinking about getting chicks

Cheers
Ross

 

[Perris]

hello Ross @mrrossi - welcome to BYC

Are you expecting the other 2 to hatch too or is that unlikely now?

 

[Jenbirdee]

welcome to BYC! Great to have you on board.

 

[swampfox440]

Welcome to BYC! pleased to meet you and thanks for joining us.

 

[LaFleche]

Hello and welcome to the BYC community @mrrossi

Congratulations on you successful hatch!

 

[theoldchick]

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, Ross 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 Ross, and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[Shadrach]

Hello mrrossi.
Welcome to BYC.

(3) What breeds do you have? - Rhode Island Red (RIR)

Tsk, tsk, more American imports.
What happened to buy British?

5) What are some of your other hobbies? - cars, travelling, DIY

Might need to put a couple of these interests into the past tense.
Travelling is likely to become difficult, not due to all the new restrictions imposed by our former EU partners but by the difficulty in find reliable chicken sitters.
DIY will move from an enjoyable past time to a high pressure necessity.


I'll go and look for someone else to cheer up now.

 

[mrrossi]

Thanks all!!

To answer the various queries:

No, the other 2 eggs failed (day 6 and day 8) - will submit another post shortly as I have a query related to this and the "late 8th egg".

RIRs best matched our criteria (hardiness, friendliness, lack of broody-ness, egg laying ability, availability of eggs/timings etc etc).

Travelling - agreed, although we do have plenty of chicken sitters available and DIY is already less enjoyable and more of a necessity but I force myself to enjoy it as it needs to be done!!