Hello There :) I’m Brittany

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bmwaterhouse

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Hi, my name is Brittany. I got chickens about 1 year ago. Started with only 3; a wellsummer, an olive egger and a prairie bluebell. It soon became apparent that we needed more hens (eggs) since we are a family of 4.

I live in Massachusetts and people have been going chicken crazy around here so it was hard to find chicks this spring.

I ended up with 2 brown leghorns and 2 buff orpington chicks. They are now almost 5 weeks old. Then we were able to get 4 Golden Comets almost 2 weeks ago.

We also borrowed an incubator from a friend and put 20 eggs in. 16 hatched but 2 died during hatching. The other 14 are doing well. We mostly have Easter Eggers and 4 Brahmas. We got a variety going on.

My grandparents have always had chickens and I knew I some day wanted some as well. My grandfathers favorite chickens are white leghorns, golden comets and Rhode Island reds. He likes the prolific egg layers haha.

I love looking at old threads on here, it’s been so helpful! So I decided to join the community:)
 
bmwaterhouse said:
Hi, my name is Brittany. I got chickens about 1 year ago. Started with only 3; a wellsummer, an olive egger and a prairie bluebell. It soon became apparent that we needed more hens (eggs) since we are a family of 4.

I live in Massachusetts and people have been going chicken crazy around here so it was hard to find chicks this spring.

I ended up with 2 brown leghorns and 2 buff orpington chicks. They are now almost 5 weeks old. Then we were able to get 4 Golden Comets almost 2 weeks ago.

We also borrowed an incubator from a friend and put 20 eggs in. 16 hatched but 2 died during hatching. The other 14 are doing well. We mostly have Easter Eggers and 4 Brahmas. We got a variety going on.

My grandparents have always had chickens and I knew I some day wanted some as well. My grandfathers favorite chickens are white leghorns, golden comets and Rhode Island reds. He likes the prolific egg layers haha.

I love looking at old threads on here, it’s been so helpful! So I decided to join the community:)
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Welcome to BYC! Enjoy yourself!
 
Thanks everyone. I have a worry about a 10 day old chick that I hatched. It seems to be hunching over when it walks around and is sleeping 90% of the time. It wasn’t like this the last 10 days. I’ve seen it drink today but not eat. When I pick it up it doesn’t resist and just lays down in my hand and falls asleep. Gave them all electrolyte water and I tried raw egg white in a syringe as well.
 

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