Hello All,
I have browsed this site for about a year for helpful chicken tips and resources. Only today I joined to post a question about injuries, which is on the injury forum. I'm here to introduce myself properly though.
We began last spring with 6 chickens who were gifts. I had been wanting chickens for a long time and got them for my birthday. They are a special flock which has free roam of our acre and their own mobile coop to lay and sleep in. They lay wonderfully big eggs with huge yolks and are spoiled by our three children who love to care for them, catch bugs to feed them, and collect their eggs. I learned quickly I am a chicken-lady. I have the chicken love-bug.
This spring, with our friends becoming keen on the delicious eggs the chickens lay, we began a chicken co-op, with a big pen and coop for 15 more chickens we keep for said friends. They pitch in on feed and we provide fresh eggs for the lot of them, with more on the way as the 15 are getting quite big already.
We have a mix of breeds; auracaunas (sp?), golden laced and silver laced wyandottes, australorps, black sex-links, and golden comets. I love them all and they are so fun to care for and funny to watch.
Myself, I am a mother and student at the University of Florida, studying environmental science and ecology. We have the sustainable farm dream and are avidly learning and doing what we can a bit at a time. The chickens were the first start, and now we've added goats to the mix and they love the chickens. It's too cute to see them all eating together.
I'm interested in using chicken manure as a feedstock for anaerobic digestion, which produces biogas (methane mostly) for heating water and cooking. This is one of my projects at school as well.
It's a pleasure to join the forum, though I wish it had been prompted by more pleasant circumstances. Thank you far having me.
Be well,
Crystal
I have browsed this site for about a year for helpful chicken tips and resources. Only today I joined to post a question about injuries, which is on the injury forum. I'm here to introduce myself properly though.
We began last spring with 6 chickens who were gifts. I had been wanting chickens for a long time and got them for my birthday. They are a special flock which has free roam of our acre and their own mobile coop to lay and sleep in. They lay wonderfully big eggs with huge yolks and are spoiled by our three children who love to care for them, catch bugs to feed them, and collect their eggs. I learned quickly I am a chicken-lady. I have the chicken love-bug.
This spring, with our friends becoming keen on the delicious eggs the chickens lay, we began a chicken co-op, with a big pen and coop for 15 more chickens we keep for said friends. They pitch in on feed and we provide fresh eggs for the lot of them, with more on the way as the 15 are getting quite big already.
We have a mix of breeds; auracaunas (sp?), golden laced and silver laced wyandottes, australorps, black sex-links, and golden comets. I love them all and they are so fun to care for and funny to watch.
Myself, I am a mother and student at the University of Florida, studying environmental science and ecology. We have the sustainable farm dream and are avidly learning and doing what we can a bit at a time. The chickens were the first start, and now we've added goats to the mix and they love the chickens. It's too cute to see them all eating together.
I'm interested in using chicken manure as a feedstock for anaerobic digestion, which produces biogas (methane mostly) for heating water and cooking. This is one of my projects at school as well.
It's a pleasure to join the forum, though I wish it had been prompted by more pleasant circumstances. Thank you far having me.
Be well,
Crystal
