My name is Sarah, and I’ve kept chickens for about 5 years now. I started off with some ex-battery hens. It was amazing to watch them heal and find their personalities in a free ranging space. Sadly, most of them died within a year which I now know is quite common for ex batts. One or two survived for a couple of years and I lost the last one, Anna, just over two years after she came to live with to a mink attack in the coop. I had no idea they could get through such tiny gaps. My whole coop is wrapped in chicken wire these days!
These days I have 12 chickens. I have one 4 year old Legbar cockerel called Cluck Norris who is a magnificent defender of his girls as well as a master forager when he wants to woo them! Four of my girls are Warrens (Buffy, Willow, Pearl & Cecilia) and two are Buff Orpingtons (Gwendolyn & Dixie). I’m new to the Orps and we also have 5 unsexed Orp chicks.
The chicks all run around in a little gang as they’ve been hand reared. They’re hilarious to watch and a proper nuisance at bedtime because they will NOT go in the coop!
They keep trying to roost in various places and we play hunt the chick at bedtime!
We (me, husband and our 7yo daughter) have a smallholding and we also breed rare pedigree sheep (Valais Blacknose and Greyface Dartmoors). We also have a number of commercial sheep that have ended up with us for one reason or another. A friend of mine calls it the home for wayward sheep. We also have two badly behaved donkeys and are tolerated by our 5 cats.
Nice to meet you all! I’m off to find the appropriate forum to see if anyone knows what sex my chicks are
These days I have 12 chickens. I have one 4 year old Legbar cockerel called Cluck Norris who is a magnificent defender of his girls as well as a master forager when he wants to woo them! Four of my girls are Warrens (Buffy, Willow, Pearl & Cecilia) and two are Buff Orpingtons (Gwendolyn & Dixie). I’m new to the Orps and we also have 5 unsexed Orp chicks.
The chicks all run around in a little gang as they’ve been hand reared. They’re hilarious to watch and a proper nuisance at bedtime because they will NOT go in the coop!
They keep trying to roost in various places and we play hunt the chick at bedtime! We (me, husband and our 7yo daughter) have a smallholding and we also breed rare pedigree sheep (Valais Blacknose and Greyface Dartmoors). We also have a number of commercial sheep that have ended up with us for one reason or another. A friend of mine calls it the home for wayward sheep. We also have two badly behaved donkeys and are tolerated by our 5 cats.
Nice to meet you all! I’m off to find the appropriate forum to see if anyone knows what sex my chicks are
You have a heart of gold. 
Thanks for sharing!
How about you? 
