MossyOaks
In the Brooder
Hello, I am new to chickens, we got 6 pullets in March.
We went with the mandatory 6 chicks from our local feed store. I was very nervous about having what I felt was a lot to start.
We started out with 3 Rhode Island's, 2 Australorp, and 1 Leghorn White.. Sadly the leghorn became very smelly (like rotten store bought chicken) now some may not agree with the choice we made, but I decided in the beginning I was not going to use antibiotics/hormones or any feed that was not non GMO. Yes I may sound picky but the whole reason of raising hens for eggs is to bypass all of this same stuff. We decided to put this leghorn down, she had a respiratory illness that even after treatment would still have been passed on to the other hens. And yes this site helped me in this process...
Thanks to a fast google search I found this site and it was very helpful for me to determine the illness of our leghorn and many other questions that have and will come up.
Basically our family lives in northeast rural Nebraska, I love being outside, and spring and summer gives me plenty of outside time. It's the winters that keep us inside "unless we are moving snow". We go camping and also have a Blue healer Named Pepper, and yes a Chihuahua named Willy. 3 kids two boys 18 and the other boy will be 14 in November. And a girl who is 12.
We went with the mandatory 6 chicks from our local feed store. I was very nervous about having what I felt was a lot to start.
We started out with 3 Rhode Island's, 2 Australorp, and 1 Leghorn White.. Sadly the leghorn became very smelly (like rotten store bought chicken) now some may not agree with the choice we made, but I decided in the beginning I was not going to use antibiotics/hormones or any feed that was not non GMO. Yes I may sound picky but the whole reason of raising hens for eggs is to bypass all of this same stuff. We decided to put this leghorn down, she had a respiratory illness that even after treatment would still have been passed on to the other hens. And yes this site helped me in this process...
Thanks to a fast google search I found this site and it was very helpful for me to determine the illness of our leghorn and many other questions that have and will come up.
Basically our family lives in northeast rural Nebraska, I love being outside, and spring and summer gives me plenty of outside time. It's the winters that keep us inside "unless we are moving snow". We go camping and also have a Blue healer Named Pepper, and yes a Chihuahua named Willy. 3 kids two boys 18 and the other boy will be 14 in November. And a girl who is 12.
