JCMOBYC Jefferson City Missouri BYC

[teddiliza]

Ha, I thought we could start our own club/network!
BYC is the best!

How about we all start off with a little about ourselves:

What do you love about chickens?

Why do you own chickens?

What chickens do you own now?

Ok here goes!

Chickens taste great, but they are more fun to watch than to eat.
They are the most useful pet I've owned, and my husband isn't allergic to them, and it's great to have fresh eggs. I was brainwashed by Mother Earth News into getting my own chickens! But I have to admit I'm more fond of them than my cockatiels!


I own 1 New Hampshire, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Barred Rock, 2 polish for my egg layers, and for fun I own 1 black cochin bantam, 1 lavender cochin bantam, 1 Houdan cockerel, 1 white Japanese bantam cockerel, 6 Porcelain d'uccles, 4 bantam buff cochins (2 are boys 2 are girls), 1 black silkie mutt rooster, 1 splash silkie, 1 spitzhauben, 2 polish mixed teenagers (hatched myself) and 6 cochin/favorelle/RIR mixed chicks (hatched myself).


Okay Sharon and Brandi, your turn......

 

[CGinJCMO]

I live outside of JC, near Brazito. I grew up raising chickens for a few years. Dad had some kind of white bird (possibly Leghorns), and I tried to have some black Polish for 4-H but they had their white crown feathers picked out by the other hens and therefore couldn't show them. LOL

What do you love about chickens?
I am really enjoying the babies. They are getting to know me. Just today, I heard one of the bantams cheeping from the Hen House (I haven't decided if I'm going to call it the Poultry Palace, or the Chick Chalet - Palace fits because I'm using Fairy Tale Names like Gretel, Cinderella, and Goldilocks). Anyway, back to my story...I heard cheeping, go out to investigate and as I'm walking to the Hen House, little tiny bantam comes running up to me. I pick her up, and carry her to back to the hen house. I'm not sure if the Old English Game Bantam got out and couldn't get back in, or if the big girls chased her out. Either way, I got her back in and she went to the bantam-only safe area.

Why do you own chickens?
Number one is for the eggs, but I know they are fun to watch too. I do not expect to make money on these chickens or eggs, but I got enough that I can sell the eggs because there's no way I'd be able to eat up the couple of dozen that I'd get each week.

What chickens do you own now?
At the beginning of April, I bought at Tractor Supply three Red Sex Link pullets out of the Rhode Island Red bin, 1 Golden Comet and 2 Reds (Rhode Island or New Hampshire?) from the Pullet bin, then 4 Bantams and 4 Barred Plymouth Rock chicks at Orchlens. I am pretty sure the TSC chicks are all girls, and researching on here has shown me that I've got 3 female Rocks and 1 possible Cockerel (according to leg color and his feathers are more white with black than the other females). My kids get to have bantams: one gray, one buff and one black (all feather booted) and one I believe is Old English Game. Of the bantams, one of them is a rooster because he's already got his red crown showing. The other three, I'm hoping are all female but don't know yet. I hope to not have anymore roosters, esp. bantam roosters because I can't imagine eating something so small but I don't want them to fight either. Time will have to tell (both the gender and the aggressiveness). I don't have a fence yet for the big girls, and don't have a totally separate house for the bantams but I plan to have two separate yards and two houses for both groups.