danpeters9497
In the Brooder
- Mar 17, 2020
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So my wife and I are chicken newbies. We just got our set up running and have 3 australorp, 2 buff orpingtons, 2 Ameraucana (probably EE, sneaky TSC) and lastly an unknown, maybe sexlink/ maybe EE/maybe actual Ameraucana we got from our Co-Op. All this being said, chickens were in the pipeline but probably a year out since we are expecting newborn any time now. But we talked ourselves into making the plunge early because of the current climate in terms of the pandemic and quarantines and food shortages etc. This got me wondering are we the only ones making this decision. We noticed our local TSC was selling out of chicks real quick and I clearly don't know if maybe that's just normal and there's always been a huge chicken community or if the current state of affairs or maybe even the rise of online chicken keepers and homestead-ers is creating a surge in the home grown and home raised sub culture. Any input from the veterans would be quite enlightening.