How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens? - OLD

[chickenmanusa.com]

Got started with my first chicken in 1998 by giving a stranded motorist a ride home. He rewarded me by allowing me to adopt a white silkie chick. I took this silkie to work with me everyday (I am a handyman). Since then I have raised, trained, and loved many breeds leading to appearances on major TV shows such as Animal Planet, Ripley's believe It Or Not, Fox & Friends, Steve Harvey Show and others. I am now filming a reality chicken theme program titled " Chickenman- Outside the Coop TV Show." My facebook page is: Mark Andrews (Chickenman).

 

[The Breaker]

just abought 4 years now.my mom ordered 25 chicks from murray mc murray but I couldint wait one day we went to a feed store and saw the chicks and i just had to have 2.


oh ya those 2 chicks are still alive today.Theve survived all dog and preadator attacks.

 

[birdhouse]

Hi my name is Myra and this is the first time I have posted.

Wow, we have a great bunch of hens. I had one hen that has 3 chicks born 3 weeks ago. They are doing fine and mom takes good care of them.

We worried about them being born this late in the year but so far all is going well. We have been raising chickens for a little over 6 years.

I have a number of customers that I sale the eggs to. They mention to their friends of how good the eggs are. Our chickens are open range and

they take good care of eating after the horses, pigs and cows poop. We never have a lot of flies thanks to them. They give us much joy just

to sit on the swing and watch them.

 

[Rhode Island Rita]

It started with seven little chickens in June of this year. We were totally green to chickens and we wanted laying hens. What we ended up with were two pullets and five roosters (three of whom were some gorgeous little bantams). Now we've got thirty-seven chickens. Rhode Island Reds, Buff Orpingtons, Barred Rocks, Leghorns, Australorps, Araucanas, Silkies! We've fallen in love with our chicken family and I foresee it getting even bigger.

 

[Chook-A-Holic]

I just wanted to step back in here a moment and give a warm welcome to all the new folks here. WOW! at all of the New Eggs in this thread!

 

[draye]

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Hello, and big Arkansas Welosme!!!!

 

[fowlman01]

about 45 years

Walt

 

[Henny Penney]

Over 30 years I have lived with chickens. But the time has come to try to live without them so letting the flocks dwindle. 2 weeks ago my Little Red Hen, who graces cards I sell (my best selling cards are the ones with her!) and who had her own facebook page because of her unique life story and popularity, died. Feeling sorry for her rooster, Studdily, I came home from a Farmers Market Sunday with a middle aged Bearded Bantam Mille Fleur D'uccles who was homeless, rescued from the fate of her flock mates by her calm demur and pretty feathers - totally new look for me, my Bantams have all been along the lines of English Game. So now I have this hen who is larger than poor Studdily and not at all intrested in him. He is trying, and he is such a gentleman! So I guess my chicken years are not over - yet!

You can read about Little Red Hen here: http://web.mac.com/huckleberry9/Life_In_The_Woods/Feathered_Friends.html
My final words of her are here: http://huckleberrywanderings.blogspot.com/2011/10/familarless-this-halloween.html

 

[Rissa]

We have always had poultry of different kinds, but my husband or the children tended them. In June I got 12 pullet chicks, one died but the others have thrived and for the first time I am caring for them. I am 84 and will tend the chicks as long as I can. I live in Maine and the winters can get very treacherous underfoot, so my son may tend them through the worst of it. I enjoy their welcome when I go out to give them food and water. If they are out they all come running to meet me. I have sex-link...we used to call them Red-Rocks.

 

[Pele]

Hrm, tough question! I'd have to combine the seperate instances. I was raised on a farm and spent most of my childhood helping my parents with their chickens. So I figure that's at least 3 years of being old enough to understand what I was doing (not just 'gotta carry the bucket', but 'gotta carry the bucket because...').

I am almost at a single year of going solo with my own chickens now after a long break from the farming life. SOooooo happy to be back into it! I love love love my girls.