- Jul 7, 2012
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hello, all! My name is Nancy, and I live in South Jersey, across the bridge from Philadelphia, on a very tiny city plot. I spent several years raising pigeons, loved it, but due to a health crisis, I gave it up. After a while I started to learn more and more about keeping chickens and suddenly there was info coming at me from everywhere and I was soon convinced. I prepared and went the route of ordering day old chicks. From... hmm... Ok, I just searched my emails for some time to refresh my memory. I ordered them from Chickens for Backyards, probably because they allowed a small number of chicks per order. I ordered "Ameraucanas" but see by the invoice that they used the term interchangeably with Easter Eggers, and I guess that is what we have: Easter Eggers. They are beautiful hens, with varied green colored eggs. The eggs vary enormously in size as well.
I ordered six chicks because I wanted to be prepared to lose one or two... but all six survived. Wow, they had such different personalities right from the start. It was an amazing experience to raise them from so young. We stil have those six. They were a year old at the end of May. HOWEVER, I believe I am losing one of them right now due to heat stroke. :-( "mine" as a matter of fact. Each of our six family members at home 'claimed' a chick as their own and the personalities kind of matched up!
I think I used Backyard Chickens as a great source of info when I was researching and deciding whether and which types and how many to get well over a year ago. I look forward to talking to others who know chicken love.
I am married, with 5 children, 3 grandchildren... I am a fairly recent College student, in an honors program and maintaining a 4.0 until this week when I make an error in an online course, and missed a deadline. Guess what the course is...?? Stress Management!! argh BUT, I do love to learn, to research and to grow. I have an illness that is a nuisance, and my youngest daughter has a chromosomal deletion which gives me a greater focus on things genetic. I find it fascinating, but I am highly motivated by my my desire to give my dd the best opportunities. Raising these hens has really contributed a lot to that! She also does therapeutic riding and wants to be a horse and farm owner some day. I will encourage her in that!
I ordered six chicks because I wanted to be prepared to lose one or two... but all six survived. Wow, they had such different personalities right from the start. It was an amazing experience to raise them from so young. We stil have those six. They were a year old at the end of May. HOWEVER, I believe I am losing one of them right now due to heat stroke. :-( "mine" as a matter of fact. Each of our six family members at home 'claimed' a chick as their own and the personalities kind of matched up!
I think I used Backyard Chickens as a great source of info when I was researching and deciding whether and which types and how many to get well over a year ago. I look forward to talking to others who know chicken love.
I am married, with 5 children, 3 grandchildren... I am a fairly recent College student, in an honors program and maintaining a 4.0 until this week when I make an error in an online course, and missed a deadline. Guess what the course is...?? Stress Management!! argh BUT, I do love to learn, to research and to grow. I have an illness that is a nuisance, and my youngest daughter has a chromosomal deletion which gives me a greater focus on things genetic. I find it fascinating, but I am highly motivated by my my desire to give my dd the best opportunities. Raising these hens has really contributed a lot to that! She also does therapeutic riding and wants to be a horse and farm owner some day. I will encourage her in that!
