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[SLDiva]

Hi

My name's Freya and I'm a chicken-lover! We've been keeping a few chickens since April 2009 and I just fall more and more in love with them. We had a terrible fox attack in October 2011 which wiped out my entire flock (still the most traumatic experience of my life!) but I have been slowly rebuilding since then. The current flock consists of five Pekin bantams (Wendy, Mildred, Mabel, Bianca and Spike) and one Orpington bantam (Izzy) - I've had all sorts in the past and Pekins are my favourites really - such character!

We're currently trying to hatch some chicks with two of our Pekins but I'm not sure it's going so well - hence my joining to look for some support - but now I've found you, I look forward to getting involved!

The rest of my family consists of DH, three DD and two not so dear dogs!

Freya
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[redsoxs]

Good Day, Freya, and

! Happy you joined our community! If you haven't done so already you'll find loads of hatching advice in the link below - good luck and have fun!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/5/incubating-hatching-eggs

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi and welcome to BYC from Northern Michigan

 

[sumi]

Welcome to BYC

Sorry to hear about your loss! How awful. Best of luck with your hatch!

 

[BrendaJ]

Hello from Oregon & welcome to BYC, So sorry about your loss - that's terrible

 

[Rocknbikerchick]

Hello, I am a new member of BYC but have gotten some answers here at times. I would like to tell you and others that I put a radio in my coop and turn it up loud enough to hear it from outside the coop and the reason I do this is because I worked a job one time where a raccoon would raid our fridge inside a barn we were working on and after many things tried, I left the radio on to help deter the critters from getting in there anymore and much to my surprise, it worked. So when I built my coop I decided to put one out there and never have had any problems and my yard backs up to woods. I hope this helps you. Its sad to lose any animals.

 

[drumstick diva]

 

[BantamFan4Life]

Welcome to BYC! Glad you joined us!

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Welcome to BYC!!!

Glad to have you aboard!!

 

[Rocknbikerchick]

Thank you and glad to have joined. My days are mostly consumed with my animals and kids but will try getting on as I can