I am new here .................................................................
Lots of beautiful bird to see, will take me some time to learn about type and breed standards etc.
Like Zootopia I'm new here too. Finally getting brave I decided to try keeping chickens with our show dogs. Breeding and showing Borzoi for 40 years, I've learned to take care in also owning prey animals. We're working on a Fort to keep them safe. While my mother and grandparents all had chickens, I've owned cockatiels, an
amazon, a pair of Baraband 'keets and a Goffin. I've still got a lot to learn
Fresh eggs from a neighbor spoiled us and a friends photo of his first Marans egg piqued the imagination.
We found our first BCM's on craigslist around Christmas, two hens and a young rooster.. Now I've read the first 700 pages of this forum it's obvious they all have faults to take them out of a breeding program. Still they are fairly typical type and body if culls in the details. Besides both hens are still laying here in California, north of Sacramento. One little girl lays a nice colored egg. My avatar shows a basket holding our first eggs.
Thank you all for the a wealth of knowledge. I feel like I know you all from the sharing and humor found here. Love studying this stuff, but for now our first chickens are our learner stock, although I expect we will be interested in upgrades.
Oh and Pink and Geebs, don't be surprised if you hear me giving you a shout on my next trip to home to Washington. I hope to make it to the Stockton Poultry show at the end of the month, just to look around. Maybe I'll see you there Sewandgrow?
Now to see if I can post this. It's all new.
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Cyndi
