Hello! My name is Rachel. I live in Oregon. Recently, our city chickens became COUNTRY chickens!! And I do mean country. As in, we're really lucky I still have my internets!!
I certainly don't know all there is to know about chickens, but I've done a LOT of reading on line, and have several chicken friends that I bounce ideas off of now and then. I started raising chickens in the summer of 2009.
I currently have 3 Buff Orphington mix hens, 5 2-3 week old pullet chicks (i hope) and what I think is a Black Sex Link Rooster (thanks you guys for helping me figure that out!) This summer I'll be adding four more pullets, bringing my total up to 12 hens and 1 Roo.
IF all of them are what they claim to be... in June I will have:
3 BO mixes (my original girls)
2 Barred Rocks
3 Golden Sex links
4 "barnyard mutts" (some combination of Rhode Island Red, Barred Rock, White Plymouth Rock, Buff Orpington)
1 black sex link
I found BYC through my google searches for chicken information about two years ago when I first started entertaining the idea of city chickens.
I'm a little bit of a lot of things...
Thrift junkie. Free Spirit. Believer. Artist. Photographer. Mom to boys. Rust Lover. Worm Farmer. Blogger. Creative Soul. Rule Bender. Spider Saver. Coffee Drinker. Cream Lover. Chook Farmer. Sailor Mouth. Music Listener. Phone Talker. Garden Grower. Mess Maker. Risk Taker. Chewy Mom. Good Intender.
After I started my flock, the tractor I build was featured on The City Chicken Tractor of the Month!! I was pretty tickled to be new, and featured on one of the very sites that gave me the confidence to give this whole crazy chicken lady thing a go!
