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All they seem to Really like is corn on the cob!
 
Hi...I am a new member here in SC. My name is Kathy... I got 6 chicks in March.... 3 are Rhode Island Reds and 3 are New Hampshires, The New Hampshires are a week or two older than the RIRs. They are now beautiful pullets and I am anxious to have them start laying their lovely brown eggs. I have them in my backyard, as we can keep chickens but are currently in the city limits so cannot have a rooster. This is our 2nd venture at raising chicks. The first time we got a straight-run of mixed chicks, it was really interesting to watch them grow and see what they became. Unfortunately, we had several White Leghorn rooster that, although they were very pretty, would chase my 4 yr old daughter through the yard. She was the only one that said we could eat them. But we didn't, we gave them to a neighbor who had chickens. I would like to get either some Seramas, or Silkies someday.

Besides our chicky-girls, we also have 4 dogs, a 15 year old chow-mix, a daschund, and 2 shih-tzus; 3 cats...a grey tabby, a hymalayan, and a black half-hymalayan polydactyl (thumb) cat. My daughter and I will be getting a pot-belly pig next week, and I am scheduled to get 2 baby feeder pigs in a couple months.I would like to get a few goats in the next few months...especially a doe-in-milk, and a young doeling for my grandkids to raise. We are wanting to try homesteading but don't have the property yet to keep the animals, so keeping what I can at my daughter's who is living on my property in the country.
 
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Hi and welcome to BYC. Ours chickens DEVOUR watermelon and corn, though I've never fed them cantaloupe before. According to an internet search they should be ok if you feed them it.
 
skw9730 said:
Hi...I am a new member here in SC. My  name is Kathy... I got 6 chicks in March.... 3 are Rhode Island Reds and 3 are New Hampshires, The New Hampshires are a week or two older than the RIRs. They are now beautiful pullets and I am anxious to have them start laying their lovely brown eggs. I have them in my backyard, as we can keep chickens but are currently in the city limits so cannot have a rooster. This is our 2nd venture at raising chicks. The first time we got a straight-run of mixed chicks, it was really interesting to watch them grow and see what they became. Unfortunately, we had several White Leghorn rooster that, although they were very pretty, would chase my 4 yr old daughter through the yard. She was the only one that said we could eat them. But we didn't, we gave them to a neighbor who had chickens. I would like to get either some Seramas, or Silkies someday.

Besides our chicky-girls, we also have 4 dogs, a 15 year old chow-mix, a daschund, and 2 shih-tzus; 3 cats...a grey tabby, a hymalayan, and a black half-hymalayan polydactyl (thumb) cat. My daughter and  I will be getting a pot-belly pig next week, and I am scheduled to get 2 baby feeder pigs in a couple months.I would like to get a few goats in the next few months...especially a doe-in-milk, and a young doeling for my grandkids to raise. We are wanting to try homesteading but don't have the property yet to keep the animals, so keeping what I can at my daughter's who is living on my property in the country.
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Hi Kathy, our Pullets are now 4 months old. They have the coop now, they love it! We let them out around 4 or 5 in the afternoon and they have the whole garden area to look for bugs and stuff. We really need to finish our garden but they are so cute running around in there and we haven't figured out how to fence part of it off without looking crazy! We have a Great Dane that would definitely eat them if he could, a sweet gentle black lab cross, 1 cat, a tortoise, a 20 year old chinchilla( from when the kids were little) some koi fish, and some tropical fish inside and a cocateil (sp). I can't wait for the eggs! Temps here have been 104 but the girls are doing well!
 
Thanks everyone, cantaloupe and watermelon are being devoured! I have to figure out how to put a pic of the coop on here.
 

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