I don't have any chickens or a henhouse...yet.

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Me: Kate
Location: Coastal southern Maine
Chickens: 0
Hen houses: 0
Cluelessness percentage: probably around 95% (but decreasing)
Reasons for wanting chickens: Eggs, just having hens around, tick-removal, quaintness factor
Reasons for being unsure of this: Foxes, my dog, extreme wind in oceanfront location could knock over hen house? Cold clime.

It all started when I decided to invest in some fancy egg-hatching equipment so that my preschooler could see chicks hatch. That was..a few days ago so I should have my stuff soon thanks to Amazon Prime, and then later this month MPC is sending us six "educational" eggs to hatch. The plan is, we'll hatch this batch of chicks and give them to my sister's farm. She also said we could hatch her some ducks.

That's great and all but starting this process reminded me that what I've really wanted for years is to own my OWN hens. I envision having around 5-7 of them. And... I have a lot to learn first, so here I am.

Kate
 
Hi :welcome Kate

Glad you could join us here!! Good luck with your hatching plans, I'm sure the children will enjoy it very much!! It's such a fantastic process to watch as the chick emerges from the egg. The learning centre would be a great place to check out for you, here is the link ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/atype/1/Learning_Center
It has a fantastic section on incubating and hatching with many helpful articles.

Wishing you the very best of luck and enjoy BYC :frow
 
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Please join your state thread. I know other Maine-ers that have chickens, duck, guineas and even a hurry up veggie garden, in THAT climate. So it can be done. I'm sure other BYCers will be glad to point out HOW to do it, to you. Just put Maine in the search box and it will come up.
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