Farmertonk
In the Brooder
- Feb 26, 2020
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1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
I dove in deep in jan 2019! Had been thinking about it for 7 years.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Currently 11, recently lost a black copper maran to my newest dog
... originally 12- four flocks of three Different age birds.
(3) What breeds do you have?
I started with- 3 white plym rock, 2 black copper maran, 1 ameraucana, 1 cuckoo maran, 1 buff orpington, 2 black sexlinks, 1 red laced wyandotte and one silver laced wyandotte.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens?
Everything!!! Love every day going out and seeing them , caring for them, using them as a recycler for the garden waste, eating their amazing eggs..staring at them for too long!!
(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Riding bicycles, cooking, gardening, learning , health , all artistic endeavors
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
Currently ending my time in los angeles, I have lived here for 14 years working in the photography industry. I live with my lady and we have four pound puppies- all from southern California public pounds. I am moving to a farm in the blue ridge mountains of north carolina in the next few weeks and am looking to increase my flock tenfold this spring!
(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community?
I was searching about how I can travel with my chickens from LA to NC. My current plan was to buy a trailer and build a mobile coop on it, and start moving them that way...
Then I started reading about virulent newcastle disease, which appears to have started a quarantine just after I got my birds!!! Am I the last who purchased birds in all of southern california?? The disease sounds scary. My girls are all strong, proud girls. I keep my biosecurity tight, have dedicated clothes for their coop- currently a deep litter system, all fenced with half under a 40 year Old avocado tree, they receieve soy free organic feed that I ferment every day for them, oyster shells, their own shells ground up, diotom earth, acv, and plenty of worms and garden veggies...spring time i bring in a lot of chickweed, mallow, nettles- any nutritious weeds, fill up 5 gallon buckets and feed em with it. They are happy and healthy!!! But I see that I am quarantined? And I cannot take them to North Carolina?! I raised them from day olds, 12 inside my living room w four dogs...in a tiny house, fun time for my lady to break her ankle and be couch ridden
If I cannot bring them..?! I have to find a loving home for the girls. They are strong layers, the white plym rocks are over 10 pound birds and lay 70+ gram eggs...I suspect they were bred w some jumbo something?? One laid double yolkers its first 4 months. This is their second year laying. I already had planned on getting another 50 birds when I get to north carolina... Rainbow eggs for the people ! ! !
My instagram is @Farmertonk If you would like to see many pictures of the chickens
attached a few screenshots of what I found for USDA legal issues with traveling w livestock...they are my family ! Good ol beurocracy .
have a great day !
I dove in deep in jan 2019! Had been thinking about it for 7 years.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Currently 11, recently lost a black copper maran to my newest dog
... originally 12- four flocks of three Different age birds.(3) What breeds do you have?
I started with- 3 white plym rock, 2 black copper maran, 1 ameraucana, 1 cuckoo maran, 1 buff orpington, 2 black sexlinks, 1 red laced wyandotte and one silver laced wyandotte.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens?
Everything!!! Love every day going out and seeing them , caring for them, using them as a recycler for the garden waste, eating their amazing eggs..staring at them for too long!!
(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Riding bicycles, cooking, gardening, learning , health , all artistic endeavors
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
Currently ending my time in los angeles, I have lived here for 14 years working in the photography industry. I live with my lady and we have four pound puppies- all from southern California public pounds. I am moving to a farm in the blue ridge mountains of north carolina in the next few weeks and am looking to increase my flock tenfold this spring!
(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community?
I was searching about how I can travel with my chickens from LA to NC. My current plan was to buy a trailer and build a mobile coop on it, and start moving them that way...
Then I started reading about virulent newcastle disease, which appears to have started a quarantine just after I got my birds!!! Am I the last who purchased birds in all of southern california?? The disease sounds scary. My girls are all strong, proud girls. I keep my biosecurity tight, have dedicated clothes for their coop- currently a deep litter system, all fenced with half under a 40 year Old avocado tree, they receieve soy free organic feed that I ferment every day for them, oyster shells, their own shells ground up, diotom earth, acv, and plenty of worms and garden veggies...spring time i bring in a lot of chickweed, mallow, nettles- any nutritious weeds, fill up 5 gallon buckets and feed em with it. They are happy and healthy!!! But I see that I am quarantined? And I cannot take them to North Carolina?! I raised them from day olds, 12 inside my living room w four dogs...in a tiny house, fun time for my lady to break her ankle and be couch ridden
If I cannot bring them..?! I have to find a loving home for the girls. They are strong layers, the white plym rocks are over 10 pound birds and lay 70+ gram eggs...I suspect they were bred w some jumbo something?? One laid double yolkers its first 4 months. This is their second year laying. I already had planned on getting another 50 birds when I get to north carolina... Rainbow eggs for the people ! ! !
My instagram is @Farmertonk If you would like to see many pictures of the chickens
attached a few screenshots of what I found for USDA legal issues with traveling w livestock...they are my family ! Good ol beurocracy .
have a great day !
Glad you joined.
I'm in the Blue Ridge of Virginia!
Hoping you find a loving home for them!
