How old were you when....

[poultryhaven]

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Awww...he's so pretty

Haha thank you

 

[fancbrd4me02]

I think I was about 7 or 8

 

[TheDuckCrew]

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that is the cutest picture ever! awwwwww

 

[MagsC]

Growing up, I cant remember NOT having chickens, they belonged to the family.
But it wasnt until my late 20s, living in Texas, that I actually got my "own". (About 10 chickens and several ducks) Or maybe not...because even then I shared them with my kids,lol. I know they named them but I dont remember any of the names, except for "Daffy" and "Puddleduck".

 

[beckt]

Just a kid. Mom let us get a couple ducklings for Easter on year. Ended up with a drake and a hen. The neighbors dog got the hen but the drake lived quite a few years till the same dog got him. Their names were Henry abd Henrietta. Henry was a hoot, he would follow us all over the neighborhood if we let him. When my youngest brother was still in diapers Henry adopted him and would try and protect him from everything. It was so cute to watch him follow him around the backyard. No one got close except my mom or dad.

 

[Marlinchaser]

I dont have an age, because they were always there.

 

[tonini3059]

I was around 8 I got to Pekin Ducks for Easter.

 

[Slinkytoys]

I was about 4 yrs. old, living in the city and not allowed to have a dog. So I had a goose. Wellll, a baby goose named Silky. When we moved and could have a dog, my parents gave my Silky to a farm. The new dog didn't make up for losing Silky. She was a mutt goose, white with a little orange beak. Followed me everywhere and slept next to my bed. She's probably why I've never raised any geese for meat.
Slinky

 

[BarkerChickens]

DH and I were 37 and 25, respectively (I am now 27 and he's 40...it was a few weeks before his 38th b-day..that's why it appears to be a discrepancy). Both of our parents grew up with chickens, but chose to raise us more suburban. Both sides are happy to see us go back to the more country roots of how they were raised.

DH came home one day stating we need chickens! A month later, we stopped by the feed store "just to check it out". We came home with 6 chicks...he spent the next few weeks building a temporary coop and run while the chicks were inside. That's how we found BYC (notice the date of my registration!)! Talk about jumping in head first!

We started with 6 hens (3 barred rocks and 3 Easter Eggers).

We now have 28 hens (including our original 6) and 2 roosters (plus we had 10 more hens that we gave to DHs best friend, 2 chicks that died, 1 chick culled due to a crossed beak and 22 roosters butchered).

Diving head first off the high dive? Nah....

 

[SilverPhoenix]

I was ten or eleven when I got my first chicken! He was a...well, I'm not sure exactly what, but possibly a Red Jungle Fowl mixed with a d'Uccle? I'm not sure. Anyway, his name was Pidgeotto (after the Pokémon! I'm still a big Pokémon fan, ten years later...) and I just loved that rooster. He was such a sweetheart. I still have one of his daughters. Sadly, I kept my chickens free-ranging at that time and within a year or two he "disappeared".