Hello from the Maine Highlands

PattonHeritage

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Hey everyone!

Me and my husband are new to a couple things: Maine (we're from Seattle WA), Farm life (both of us are suburban raised kids of former farmers), and chickens!!! We're finishing up our plans for our property in the Maine Highlands (a bit north of Bangor) and are already planning our first flock of friends to join us in the near future.

We plan on building a flock of Sussex, Rhode Island Red/White, Ameraucana, Legbar, and Marans (yes we know...ambitious haha) to join our pastures of milking goats and guinea hogs. It's gonna be a lot of learning, but we've already gotten so much helpful and wonderful advice that we would love any more. We definitely would love to meet any Maine homesteaders or chicken lovers in Maine as we have some big plans and goals for our chickens!

Thanks!!!!
 
Hello and welcome to BYC - thanks for joining us and congrats on your move.

Here’s a link to the Articles section - https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/ There you’ll find lots of information on almost every aspect of keeping chickens - from coop building ideas, to incubating eggs.

There’s a link on the page above to the Learning Centre - it’s a great resource. If you have a specific topic in mind, just type it in the search box - there's a wealth of information on past and present threads.

Each week, various topics are discussed, which can also be a great resource - https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/topic-of-the-week-thread-archive

You may wish to consider joining your state thread as it will put you in touch with other BYC members in your area - Find Your State Thread

All the best

Pork Pie
 
Hello and welcome to BYC!! It’s so nice to have you join us. welcome.gif

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If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask one of us. :)
 
Welcome to our crazy chicken family! Wow you have some big plans there to work towards.

@aart is someone I would follow on these forums as they have much knowledge regarding cold weather chicken keeping and general DIY knowledge which might be helpful since you are basically almost in Canada.
 

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