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Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC. Congratulations on your new home, and best wishes acquiring that extra acreage. How exciting to be waiting for chicks! Let us know how they turn out! I am sure you will fall in love. Your parents knew something when they kept you kids from getting close to the chickens. Chickens have so much personality, it's just astonishing. I hope you have as much fun with them as I have!

There are a lot of gardeners here, including a number of folks who do permaculture and food forest type growing. We have a whole forum for gardening chat. But you are so right that gardening changes by location. Talk to your new neighbors, and check with the folks here on BYC from your area (using the state thread), to ask about growing conditions, and what grows well in that area.

We also have a hobbies forum where you might strike up some conversations on SF/fantasy (I am a fan), D&D, and more. There is even a forum for those interested in self sufficiency/homesteading. I hope you find lots here to reward your interest. But you will soon be so busy with those adorable chicks that you won't have time for a bit. Best wishes with those chicks!

Just to give you a boost, here is a (partial) list of posts and articles here about chicken ailments, how to treat them, and recommendations for a first aid kit.

BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures

Here are some more articles:

1. Chicken ailments (an aging index to articles written over the years about chicken illnesses. Be aware that some of the links don't work and some of the authors have disappeared from BYC. The date of the index is 2012! Nothing else as comprehensive) and this updated

Chicken Illnesses Library

1 a. Treating Sour Crop and Impacted Crop and How to Tell the Difference and Prevention and Treatments of Crop Disorders

1 b. Chicken Poop

1 c. What to expect as your hen passes away from old age

1 d. Vaccinating chicks for Mareks Disease

2. Chicken First Aid Kit (again, an older article, but a good one; there have been a number of more recent posts discussing this here and here, for instance)

3. Things I wish I knew before I got my first chick (covers chicks to old age)

4. Maintaining a healthy coop (with lots of links)

5. Natural healing (there are items in this article that some members may disagree with, notably the use of diatomaceous earth)
 
Boppo said:
Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC. Congratulations on your new home, and best wishes acquiring that extra acreage. How exciting to be waiting for chicks! Let us know how they turn out! I am sure you will fall in love. Your parents knew something when they kept you kids from getting close to the chickens. Chickens have so much personality, it's just astonishing. I hope you have as much fun with them as I have!

There are a lot of gardeners here, including a number of folks who do permaculture and food forest type growing. We have a whole forum for gardening chat. But you are so right that gardening changes by location. Talk to your new neighbors, and check with the folks here on BYC from your area (using the state thread), to ask about growing conditions, and what grows well in that area.

We also have a hobbies forum where you might strike up some conversations on SF/fantasy (I am a fan), D&D, and more. There is even a forum for those interested in self sufficiency/homesteading. I hope you find lots here to reward your interest. But you will soon be so busy with those adorable chicks that you won't have time for a bit. Best wishes with those chicks!

Just to give you a boost, here is a (partial) list of posts and articles here about chicken ailments, how to treat them, and recommendations for a first aid kit.

BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures

Here are some more articles:

1. Chicken ailments (an aging index to articles written over the years about chicken illnesses. Be aware that some of the links don't work and some of the authors have disappeared from BYC. The date of the index is 2012! Nothing else as comprehensive) and this updated

Chicken Illnesses Library

1 a. Treating Sour Crop and Impacted Crop and How to Tell the Difference and Prevention and Treatments of Crop Disorders

1 b. Chicken Poop

1 c. What to expect as your hen passes away from old age

1 d. Vaccinating chicks for Mareks Disease

2. Chicken First Aid Kit (again, an older article, but a good one; there have been a number of more recent posts discussing this here and here, for instance)

3. Things I wish I knew before I got my first chick (covers chicks to old age)

4. Maintaining a healthy coop (with lots of links)

5. Natural healing (there are items in this article that some members may disagree with, notably the use of diatomaceous earth)
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Thank you so much for all the valuable info and links. I want to thank everyone for their welcome if you are reading this. Thank you all for making me feel so welcome!
 

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