We've just gotten started in early March with our first 4 Chooks (chickens..lol). I'll probably always refer to them as "Chooks" because i've been married to my Aussie wifey long enough that we've melted into one person...lol. She's a city girl (Sydney) and never had any farm experience and I was born and raised in the San Joaquin Valley of California before I moved to Washington State 22 years ago! I lived on a small farm when I was young and I spent every summer I can remember on my brother-in-laws dairy so I've been around chooks in some way or another for many years but now I and my wife want to learn all the things that we don't know about them! We're starting small with 4 chooks and right now we have a small coop and run! I'm planning on building a larger one and use the one we have as a "transition area" for new chicks! We'd like our flock to grow but probably not beyond 12 or so chooks! We bought 4 chicks from one of our local farm supply stores and one of the store owners "friends" was selling her chicks there. She told us that we'd "love" her chicks because they are great for the cold of the Northwest and that they produced large and sometimes double yolks! They are white leghorns and long story short, one turned out to be a rooster.. :-(. Lucky for us my 20 year old grandaughter's boyfriend's mother ( got all that?..lol ) raises chickens and she traded us our young rooster for a 1 year old black Australope (an Australian breed...lol) She's wonderful and even being transplanted from her flock to our new small one she layed the very first day and every day since.. 
. Anyway...my wife and I look forward to having all of you to bounce questions off of and we appreciate everyone's thoughts on raising Chooks (chickens)...lol. ~David
. Anyway...my wife and I look forward to having all of you to bounce questions off of and we appreciate everyone's thoughts on raising Chooks (chickens)...lol. ~David
