Magpiezoe
Chirping
- Jun 21, 2024
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Good morning,Thank you for allowing me to join this group. I am an accidental backyard chicken owner. My hubby and I received our first backyard chickens 9 years ago. My son's senior portrait photographer gave us 2 beautiful Rhode Island Red chickens free with our son's senior portraits! My hubby happily adopted the pretty ladies. Their first week was spent underneath our porch, because we didn't have anything for them yet. He setup an old cabinet, took one of the doors off so they could hop in, filled it with straw from a local feed store, and set out a plate of layer feed for them. Then he built the most beautiful chicken coop I have ever seen. It's huge and looks like a dollhouse on stilts! I didn't know he could build anything, but I guess the love for the chickens took over. He named them Jeff and Amanda after his favorite radio show hosts. I had to try to explain to him that they are both girls. (Hens) Now, we have 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 brown Leghorn, and 8 Black Stars. Still short on names for the Black Stars, which are the first chickens we actually raised as little babies. All of them are beautiful women! Below is a picture of the first chicken coop my hubby built and we're still using it for half of the flock. The other half have their own coop and yard as well.
Glad you joined.
