Hi all,
I'm a brand new chicken mamma having got our four fluffy babies last Friday. They were one week old when they came home with us, and seem to be thriving. I love watching them and their little personalities and have more pictures than I need.
I have a Buff Orpington, (Zsa-Zsa), a Welsummer (Wallis), a Partridge Rock (Gromit) and an Ameraucana / Easter Egger? (Peggy).
We just moved to a new home and there is absolutely no landscaping done. My family thinks I have my priorities backwards in getting chickens first, but we'll just landscape for and around them. I'm still looking for a coop, but I figure I have about a month to find them a permanent home. My hubby doesn't have the time to build one and I don't have the inclination (or the skills). Once we have the coop situated we'll start working on building them a nice run. We live in the foothills of northern Utah and have plenty of predators to worry about, including rattlesnakes and a bald eagle that flies overhead occasionally.
I've thought about getting chickens for almost two years and last summer when we tended our neighbors small flock while they were on vacation I was convinced. I started researching keeping chickens and have read through much of the information on BYC. What a valuable resource this site is going to be.
I'm a brand new chicken mamma having got our four fluffy babies last Friday. They were one week old when they came home with us, and seem to be thriving. I love watching them and their little personalities and have more pictures than I need.
I have a Buff Orpington, (Zsa-Zsa), a Welsummer (Wallis), a Partridge Rock (Gromit) and an Ameraucana / Easter Egger? (Peggy).
We just moved to a new home and there is absolutely no landscaping done. My family thinks I have my priorities backwards in getting chickens first, but we'll just landscape for and around them. I'm still looking for a coop, but I figure I have about a month to find them a permanent home. My hubby doesn't have the time to build one and I don't have the inclination (or the skills). Once we have the coop situated we'll start working on building them a nice run. We live in the foothills of northern Utah and have plenty of predators to worry about, including rattlesnakes and a bald eagle that flies overhead occasionally.
I've thought about getting chickens for almost two years and last summer when we tended our neighbors small flock while they were on vacation I was convinced. I started researching keeping chickens and have read through much of the information on BYC. What a valuable resource this site is going to be.