Anethema
Chirping
Hey everyone! Just wanted to post a hello since I just signed up. Already got lots of new information and just wanted to be able to make posts of my own.
I somewhat recently moved from a small house on almost no land in southern Canada and from the money was able to buy 160 acres up in northern Canada.
No real farming plans or anything commercial just always loved having chickens and horses and land as a kid and thanks to some good younger decisions me and the wife were able to have our dream property in our mid 30s. Sure the house is run down and we have to haul our own water but I wouldn't trade it for the world.
So recently we started getting chickens for laying and for fun and we begun with a grown group of Bantam Cochins.
We knew they wouldn't be great layers and would often go broody but they were pretty and thought it would be fun to dip our toes in.
They have been so much fun. Lots of tiny eggs though of the 3 hens 1-2 always seem broody. We eventually decided screw it and marked and left in eggs under the broody hen. 3 weeks later 3 little peepers popped out. We kept them separate for a couple weeks and after some slow reintegration they are all living together just fine.
Near the same time we bought 5 sexed buff Orpington pullets. They are about 13 weeks old now and running around the yard like a pack of little raptors.
Eventually what we would like is to get a buff Orpington rooster and barred rock hens and produce a bunch of sex links to make our future a bit easy.
Anyways that is my story and I'm sticking to it.
Glad to meet everyone and look forward to posting and talking more.
I somewhat recently moved from a small house on almost no land in southern Canada and from the money was able to buy 160 acres up in northern Canada.
No real farming plans or anything commercial just always loved having chickens and horses and land as a kid and thanks to some good younger decisions me and the wife were able to have our dream property in our mid 30s. Sure the house is run down and we have to haul our own water but I wouldn't trade it for the world.
So recently we started getting chickens for laying and for fun and we begun with a grown group of Bantam Cochins.
We knew they wouldn't be great layers and would often go broody but they were pretty and thought it would be fun to dip our toes in.
They have been so much fun. Lots of tiny eggs though of the 3 hens 1-2 always seem broody. We eventually decided screw it and marked and left in eggs under the broody hen. 3 weeks later 3 little peepers popped out. We kept them separate for a couple weeks and after some slow reintegration they are all living together just fine.
Near the same time we bought 5 sexed buff Orpington pullets. They are about 13 weeks old now and running around the yard like a pack of little raptors.
Eventually what we would like is to get a buff Orpington rooster and barred rock hens and produce a bunch of sex links to make our future a bit easy.
Anyways that is my story and I'm sticking to it.
Glad to meet everyone and look forward to posting and talking more.
hello
and welcome to backyard chickens!thank you for joining us
