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hsk1977 said:
Hello, everyone! I’ve been dropping in here for a while now and getting lots of helpful information from everyone. I thought it was time to finally post an introduction. Better late than never, right? 😁

I am still new to chickens. My dad used to have them, and I always enjoyed watching their antics when I’d go visit. We now live on his old property and decided last winter to utilize his coop with our own flock. After a lot of research and planning, I ordered 8 chicks in December to be shipped in June. We had vacations and such planned and wanted to make sure we had several weeks in a row with no trips etc planned so we’d be here for our babies. Little did we know all our plans would get cancelled anyway. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I keep saying “we,” but initially other than agreeing to have them, Hubby didn’t have much of an opinion on the coming chicks. (He has since fallen in love with “the girls” and already wants more! 😂) Anyway, I had a hard time narrowing down what to get and ended up choosing two of each of four breeds “just in case” so we started our with 8 (nine if you count our surprise freebie who sadly didn’t make it past week one 😢) chickens...probably more than two people need, but that’s where we are in any case. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Our girls: 2 Golden Laced Wyandottes named Hoot & Annie (get it? 😂), 2 Blue Laced Red Wyandottes named Polly & Esther, 2 Buff Orpingtons named Ginger & Nutmeg, and 2 Black Australorps named Em’ly & Peggotty (Hubby’s reading David Copperfield. LOL) Our little freebie was a Buttercup. She was adorable, but I think the others might have crushed her while I was at work one day when they were a week old. That’s when I realized how attached I already was to those chicks! Lots of tears were shed over that little baby! 😭

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Our girls will be 12 weeks old tomorrow. From the beginning, I have spent time with the every day. Even now with them in their coop/run, I go out daily and take a seat to hang out with them. Hubby comes out most days too. They hop up in our laps as soon as we sit down. 🥰 They are such funny creatures. We have really enjoyed just watching them!

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A little about us...we have been married 23 years. We don’t have children but love animals and currently have 4 cats (plus the neighbor’s who thinks he lives here too) and we inherited my dad’s border collie mix when he passed away. We had two boxers up until a few years ago and still miss them. We love the outdoors and enjoy camping and kayaking. I also enjoy photography and scrapbooking.

Ok that’s probably enough. If you read all of that, thanks! I’ll try to share some pics of the girls. 😁
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Welcome!!!! I am excited to welcome another from Mississippi! I live near Tupelo and am from there originally. Your flock is gorgeous! I am not much ahead of you. My girls of nine members are just 17 weeks old and not laying yet. I hope that I have eggs before Christmas. At least a few if I am lucky! I know that this year hopefully I will have some eggs maybe through the winter and that will be the only year I do so from this group but I am excited about that. Raising them has been fun and I do worry a lot since I am a first timer as well. I love animals also and have two dogs and I am adopting a third this week from a kennel owner whose husband passed one the past month suddenly and he was a breeder of high quality dogs and show dogs but she cannot manage all of them alone and she is giving a stud dog to us for free because we are a good home. He is six years old and getting neutered this week thank goodness. We are happy to be getting him. He will be my hubby and son’s dog to have primarily but I am sure I will have to do a lot of work with him as I am the dog person in the family. You know how it is. They know who buys the food and sees that everyone eats fairly quickly. Lol! Well I just wanted to welcome you and let you know that another Mississippian is on here regularly and will read your posts and brainstorm with you with what little I know but with a lot I have learned right here on BYC which is a great deal of information and help from wonderful people that BYC is loaded with. Come here and research as often as possible and you can work out any chick problem. Good luck to you and your amazing batch of chicks!
 
thepick4uchicks said:
Welcome!!!! I am excited to welcome another from Mississippi! I live near Tupelo and am from there originally. Your flock is gorgeous! I am not much ahead of you. My girls of nine members are just 17 weeks old and not laying yet. I hope that I have eggs before Christmas. At least a few if I am lucky! I know that this year hopefully I will have some eggs maybe through the winter and that will be the only year I do so from this group but I am excited about that. Raising them has been fun and I do worry a lot since I am a first timer as well. I love animals also and have two dogs and I am adopting a third this week from a kennel owner whose husband passed one the past month suddenly and he was a breeder of high quality dogs and show dogs but she cannot manage all of them alone and she is giving a stud dog to us for free because we are a good home. He is six years old and getting neutered this week thank goodness. We are happy to be getting him. He will be my hubby and son’s dog to have primarily but I am sure I will have to do a lot of work with him as I am the dog person in the family. You know how it is. They know who buys the food and sees that everyone eats fairly quickly. Lol! Well I just wanted to welcome you and let you know that another Mississippian is on here regularly and will read your posts and brainstorm with you with what little I know but with a lot I have learned right here on BYC which is a great deal of information and help from wonderful people that BYC is loaded with. Come here and research as often as possible and you can work out any chick problem. Good luck to you and your amazing batch of chicks!
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Hello! Thanks for the welcome! It’s nice to know I have neighbors on here! We are only an hour from Tupelo. Congrats on the new pup!!
 

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