hello everyone I am new to the BYC site, I been looking at a lot of different thing on the site. so I figured I should join. I just finished building my chicken coop, and now I'm ready for chickens, I would post a picture of my coop and run, but I don't know how to post yet. I live in northwestern Pa. I been thinking of RIR's for my breed. I am new to chickens, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Greetings from Kansas, junkman, and . Happy to have you in our community! RIRs are a great breed. Super layers! Here's a link that tells how to post a pic https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/inserting-pics-in-on-the-new-byc And find the PA thread in this link if you'd like to talk to locals https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/26/where-am-i-where-are-you Good luck and enjoy your future flock!
Hi and welcome to BYC - you have some great advice and links from redsoxs already so I'll just say hello! All the best CT
Welcome to Backyard chickens junkman56!! I hope you enjoy it and the camaraderie here and everybody that goes nuts over chickens (me being one of them....) Have fun! And ask questions! My personal favorite breed so far in this chicken adventure has been the Silver Laced Wyandottes! They are beautiful birds and so far they have been pretty good layers!
Welcome to BYC! It's great to have you. Personally I would not recommend the fowls commonly sold as "RIRs." They are in reality nothing like true RIRs and they are generally bad tempered, picky, cannibalistic little things. A much better choice would be a New Hampshire or a Red Sex Links, which are equal or better layers and lack the nasty temperaments of Production Reds.
