Everything you could possibly need or want to know about chickens can be found here on BYC, or located off-site by a link a BYCer provides. From chicks farting to breed genetics, it's all here!
Welcome to all the newbies! This site can answer all things chicken related and much more. And if you want opinions, they are here - as well as emotional support and medical help and building instructions and.....this is by far the best resource I have found in my one year of raising chickens. The folks on BYC are ever-so-understanding and welcoming.
!!!! I have 16 chickens right now. 4 "Junior High" teen chickens, 7 "Middle School" chicks, and 5 "Kindergarden" week old chicks. I am about to sell one of the cockerels tho...