- Feb 14, 2014
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Howdy Folks,
HotChickMagnet here. I'm completely new to raising chickens, but in an effort to eat better quality foods and enjoy a new hobby, I've ventured into the chicken raising field. I've been researching this new endeavor for a month or so now pretty heavily. I have a couple degrees, one of them being in Horticulture; now while thats not Agriculture, I still thoroughly enjoy growing things. My career is in the Entertainment industry, but I'm on a bit of a quest to become an organic farmer on side. I'm really intrigued in becoming very self-sufficient, hopefully having a homestead someday. Of course I will have to have some modern technologies in there too. I've had gardens all my life, but would like to get into more of an ecological cycle. Food scraps to the compost pile to BSFL to chickens with natural vegetation and such to healthy eggs to me and my friends/family and fecees back to the lawn and garden. Everyone knows all the benefits of raising chickens, so I won't go into it anymore.
I'm looking to raise Ameraucanas, Black Australorps, and probably Delawares. Not only will they meet my needs and wants, I can show them in the open category at the county fair, if I so choose. I'm going to start off with started pullets, because work is too demanding to be raising chicks at the current time.
Does anyone know of any breeders in Arkansas that sells these breeds, which have been free-ranged and feed a healthy diet of bugs, grass, and organic feed?
That's all for now,
HotChickMagnet
HotChickMagnet here. I'm completely new to raising chickens, but in an effort to eat better quality foods and enjoy a new hobby, I've ventured into the chicken raising field. I've been researching this new endeavor for a month or so now pretty heavily. I have a couple degrees, one of them being in Horticulture; now while thats not Agriculture, I still thoroughly enjoy growing things. My career is in the Entertainment industry, but I'm on a bit of a quest to become an organic farmer on side. I'm really intrigued in becoming very self-sufficient, hopefully having a homestead someday. Of course I will have to have some modern technologies in there too. I've had gardens all my life, but would like to get into more of an ecological cycle. Food scraps to the compost pile to BSFL to chickens with natural vegetation and such to healthy eggs to me and my friends/family and fecees back to the lawn and garden. Everyone knows all the benefits of raising chickens, so I won't go into it anymore.
I'm looking to raise Ameraucanas, Black Australorps, and probably Delawares. Not only will they meet my needs and wants, I can show them in the open category at the county fair, if I so choose. I'm going to start off with started pullets, because work is too demanding to be raising chicks at the current time.
Does anyone know of any breeders in Arkansas that sells these breeds, which have been free-ranged and feed a healthy diet of bugs, grass, and organic feed?
That's all for now,
HotChickMagnet
and Welcome To BYC! You might try posting in your state thread if anyone knows of local birds like you are looking for. 
