How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens? - OLD

[Momma on a Mission]

8 weeks and loving it!

 

[brooster 22]

After contemplating and studying all about chickens I drove up to Madison, Va and bought 6 beautiful 1 day old chicks from a farmer who swore he could sex chicks!! One by one 4 baby chicks started crowing!! They were beautiful but turned into adolescent boys who were giving my 2 young girls a very hard time!! One by one I had to give away-to excellent homes-3 of my roosters amid tears and great sadness!! It broke my heart but they were fighting each other and I did what I had to do. I kept an EE rooster who is abaolutely fascinationg! Sounds crazy but I love Brooster the same as my dogs and cat. I hatched one blue orphington (Brooster helped set on the eggs) and ordered 6 biddies from My Pet Chicken!! I now have 9 pitiful moulting ladies and one very happy rooster!! Egg production is down but I know they will soon start laying again. I get 2 eggs most days. I live in a neighborhood where all houses are on at least one acre-not one complaint about Brooster-sometimes people will stop by and ask if they can see my chickens-often with chikdren who want to see the eggs!! I love my chickens-their chicken chatter while settling down for the night!! I feel fortunate that I have never lost a chicken for we do have foxes, and other wild animals around!Love my chickens and love BYC Newsletter!!

 

[my urban barnyard]

I was around age 12 when I hatched two chicks in one of those tiny, plastic, nightlight bulb incubators sold in the back of Field & Stream Magazine and, thanks to very patients parents, developed a small flock of about 5 birds. In our little town, I became that odd kid who rode around with a rooster on his bike's handlebars. Looking back, I can only imagine what people thought. That flock went to a farm when I graduated high school, but the interest remained, and 10 years later, shortly after my partner and I bought our first house, I dragged home two chicks from the farm store. That was a dozen years ago and we and our neighbors still enjoy our small urban flock of five hens.

 

[silverback]

Got our first four pullets October 5 2010. Now have a total of six laying hens - lost one of the original four and then gained three additional.
They are wonderful pets and breakfast producers!
S.

 

[Desirai]

I clicked under 6 months because I don't have any yet but plan to have some in spring!

 

[the duck whisperer]

i've been raising birds since i was 6 yrs old

 

[orps-usa]

20+ years

 

[VJSchilling]

I am still in the first year with chickens! We just hatched our second brood of 10 chicks and ending the first week we have 9 chicks left, one was just weak and didn't make it. We have a hutch with 2 hens of our original batch, one is doing the Mamma thing the other is still producing one egg a day. We are expats retirees living in Mexico and just loving it.

 

[puredelite]

Actually since I was a boy way back in the '50's and my grandmother would give me little peeps to take home and raise. Seriously tho since the '70's. No farm is complete without a crowing roo at daylite!

 

[redmacbear23]

I was raising chickens on a farm in Missouri when the kids were little. Now the kids are grown, and I've been raising some hens and a Mottled Cochin Bantam rooster for several years. The Bantams continue to give me hatchlings, but we also have a Gold Lace Wyandotte Cochin, a Gold Lace Wyandotte pullet, and a White Wy pullet. I hope to add some Aracauna.