portlandhomestead
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- Mar 13, 2019
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Hello friends!
Long time lurker, finally a member.
My name is Mel. I'm a 25-year-old environmental student, newbie homeowner, and now chicken lady! One day we'd love to buy more land outside the city but until we're able to afford it we live life on a 1/4 acre lot that we're making into an urban homestead. We have an instagram account by the same username if you'd like to follow our journey.
We closed on our fixer-upper home June 2018 and since then have been crazy busy with renovations (we're "do it yourself-ers"). When we first toured our house there were no light fixtures just empty electrical sockets, a broken window, a peeling ceiling, awful lime green paint, and a million faux flowers out back. But the overgrown yard had potential and we could envision a large garden, fruit trees, dinners on the deck, and maybe even a coop! Fast forward to today, the house is finally liveable inside (not pretty... just liveable) and we can start focusing on our yard.
We're tearing out about half of our lawn and redoing it with garden beds and trees. We're very into permaculture, sustainability, and the "food not lawns" movement. We salvage many of the materials that we use for our projects.
Growing up my family had chickens but this will be our first proper flock. My boyfriend has always been a city boy. His family briefly had chickens but due to improper coop design lost them to raccoons. We grew up in cookie-cutter houses without anything but dogs so working on our little urban homestead is entirely new for both of us. We didn't even own a drill until December
We currently have 10 chicks in the brooder and I'm building their coop from a mixture of salvaged and new materials
Of those 10 I assume many will be roosters since they're straight-run. Our aim is to keep 5.
We have 3 easter eggers, 3 blue copper marans, 1 mutt/possible rhode island red, and 3 black copper marans. These are guesses based off of the parents / what I've been told.
I'm curious to see who turns out to be a hen and who's a roo! The chicks will share the land with our two Australian cattle dogs.
We're raising chickens for many of the same reasons you all are. It's therapeutic for us to work our land no matter how small, we love learning, fresh eggs, and it just makes our "homestead" feel more complete.
We're so excited to learn from this next journey!
Long time lurker, finally a member.
My name is Mel. I'm a 25-year-old environmental student, newbie homeowner, and now chicken lady! One day we'd love to buy more land outside the city but until we're able to afford it we live life on a 1/4 acre lot that we're making into an urban homestead. We have an instagram account by the same username if you'd like to follow our journey.
We closed on our fixer-upper home June 2018 and since then have been crazy busy with renovations (we're "do it yourself-ers"). When we first toured our house there were no light fixtures just empty electrical sockets, a broken window, a peeling ceiling, awful lime green paint, and a million faux flowers out back. But the overgrown yard had potential and we could envision a large garden, fruit trees, dinners on the deck, and maybe even a coop! Fast forward to today, the house is finally liveable inside (not pretty... just liveable) and we can start focusing on our yard.
We're tearing out about half of our lawn and redoing it with garden beds and trees. We're very into permaculture, sustainability, and the "food not lawns" movement. We salvage many of the materials that we use for our projects.
Growing up my family had chickens but this will be our first proper flock. My boyfriend has always been a city boy. His family briefly had chickens but due to improper coop design lost them to raccoons. We grew up in cookie-cutter houses without anything but dogs so working on our little urban homestead is entirely new for both of us. We didn't even own a drill until December
We currently have 10 chicks in the brooder and I'm building their coop from a mixture of salvaged and new materials
Of those 10 I assume many will be roosters since they're straight-run. Our aim is to keep 5.
We have 3 easter eggers, 3 blue copper marans, 1 mutt/possible rhode island red, and 3 black copper marans. These are guesses based off of the parents / what I've been told.
I'm curious to see who turns out to be a hen and who's a roo! The chicks will share the land with our two Australian cattle dogs.
We're raising chickens for many of the same reasons you all are. It's therapeutic for us to work our land no matter how small, we love learning, fresh eggs, and it just makes our "homestead" feel more complete.
We're so excited to learn from this next journey!
We are glad you joined this flock!
and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.
to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC! 
