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[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to BYC - thanks for joining us.

This is a useful link of BYC guides to take a look at announcements-feedback-issues-guides.3 I’d suggest including your location using the guide in the link. You can use this link to contact members in your area - Find your State's thread.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[Brahmachicken240]

Nice to meet you
Welcome to Backyard Chickens
Lovely mix of breeds you have there!

 

[drumstick diva]

If you run out of names - you can Google- Dracula's wives, I believe he had 5 of them.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Thanks for joining us!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

We have a contest going on right now just for new folks like you. In order to enter you'll need to copy the link from your first post in this thread and post it in the contest thread.

To copy your link address, right click on the link to your thread and click copy or copy link

then click on the following URL
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...t-new-byc-members-win-a-byc-calendar.1287752/
Go down to where it says "write your reply..." tell us this is your entry and then click on the link button

Paste your URL into the box and click "insert", then click "Post Reply".

That's all there is to it. Once you've finished this, you're eligible to win a nice BYC Calendar.

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Sounds like you have a very colorful flock.
Your daughter will be quite the little helper the first time you need to care for an injured chicken.

 

[feathermaid]

Are you keeping 2 separate brooders? Those seem like some tough ages to mix together... your "teenagers" might not be very nice to the little ones, especially when they start reaching sexual maturity in a few weeks. Hope the integration goes well!

 

[Bombshell Betty]

I keep finding myself on this site with almost every chicken question I google, so I thought it made sense to join!
I'm a Southern California girl with a super awesome hubby with whom I have 2 kids we're quite fond of: a 12 yr old boy who wants to be a robotics engineer and a spunky 7 yr old girl who wants to be a medical examiner. When I'm not just making sure my kids grow up to be worthwhile human beings who know how to people in their own homes when they're 30 (and not my nonexistent basement), I run my daughter's Girl Scout Troop with my mom, teach cooking to little kids, run a small business, and am trying to learn how to sew, grow, and do more myself. Being self sufficient just feels good!

We just replaced our 1st flock (3 Ameraucanas RIP) with a "coven" of 14:
Hilda - Barred Rock (13 wk pullet)
Raven - Black Australorp (12 wk pullet)
Matilda - Ideal 236 (12 wk pullet)
Tabitha - (chipmunk) Easter Egger (10 wk pullet)
Hermoine - Rhode Island Red (10 wk pullet)
Sabrina - Buff Orpington (10 wk pullet)
Ursula - (black) Easter Egger (10 wk pullet)
Silkie - Blue Bantam Silkie (unknown gender 2 wk old)
unnamed - Black Frizzle Cochin Bantam (unknown gender 2 wk old)
Wednesday - Black Copper Maran (5 day old pullet)
Adalind - Black Star (5 day old pullet)
Sheik - Cuckoo Maran (5 day old pullet)
Zelda - Ameracauna (5 day old pullet)
Constantine - Black Jersey Giant (5 day old pullet)
... literally got the last 5 yesterday and today!

My goal was/is to have all my chickens lay different color eggs so that if one gets eggbound (RIP Ameraucana #1), I'll know who it is. Also, I don't know why we decided they all needed witch names, but they do and so now we have a coven of chickens!

Problem: They told me they think they sold me the wrong bird. Wednesday is not a Black Copper Maran Pullet, it is a straight run bantam of unknown breed. It's way smaller than the rest, it has black legs with yellow toes, no white spot on the top of its head, and it started sprouting feathers on its legs all of a sudden... but she looks just like the pics I see on here of BCM chicks and they don't have the big white spot on their head, either, so I don't know!

 

[Bombshell Betty]

the 7 littles are in the brooder in our house and the 7 bigs are in the coop already.

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View attachment 1698947 Are you keeping 2 separate brooders? Those seem like some tough ages to mix together... your "teenagers" might not be very nice to the little ones, especially when they start reaching sexual maturity in a few weeks. Hope the integration goes well!

 

[Melky]

Welcome to BYC!​