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RPClark

RPClark

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Sep 30, 2016
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Hi All,

New to keeping chickens and new to BYC.

We have 15 pullets (or at least we think they're all pullets). They're 13 weeks old. We got them from a well-known hatchery at a couple days old and transitioned them to their permanent coop at 4 weeks. We free-range them when we're home so that we can keep an eye out as we live on a rural acreage.

We've only lost one chick, and that was in the first week. The rest seem to be getting fat and sassy. In addition to non-medicated chick feed and scratch, we fed them a fair amount of veggies from our garden this summer. Now that it's getting cooler, we're catching loads of late-season grasshoppers to hand feed.

So far this has been great fun. Looking forward to learning loads from the forum.
 
Hi there, RPClark, and welcome to Backyard chickens! The learning center is a great place to check out with loads of helpful info. https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/1/Learning_Center. If you want to be sure you have all pullets and no roosters, you can post them in this thread, https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/15/what-breed-or-gender-is-this. And you might like to check in at the Iowa page, for local chicken chat! https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/182/ia-here. Have fun and I hope you enjoy BYC as much as I have!
 
Hi and welcome to BYC - thanks for joining us and congrats on your flock - they sound to be doing great.

Best wishes
CT
 
Hi :welcome

Glad you could join us here! Congratulations on getting your new chicken adventures underway :clap Please do check out the great links left for you above, I'm sure you will find them very helpful.
Wishing you the very best of luck for the future and enjoy BYC and all the chicken chat :frow
 
Excited for you. Sounds like you've got a good thing going! Chickens are the most fun! We just got a handful more 12 week old pullets, it's a fun age. Fun to watch them grow! You'll learn a lot here. Good luck!
 

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