Hi Chicken Lovers 
I'm not really new to chickens at all but decided that this may be a good forum for the direction we are headed and some things we would like to do. We is my 14 year old daughter and my husband of almost 22 years. We have been involved with poultry via 4H for almost 5 years now. It started out as a backyard hen project of 4-5 hens and through the years we have been as high as 50 chickens and turkeys. We did the 4H market turkey project a couple of years but I'm not a huge fan of turkeys. Our current flock is around 20 chickens.
We started with just a mixed flock of standard dual purpose birds but as we have moved through the years we are hoping to get a little more specialized. I am very interested in heritage breeds and potentially keeping just 2-4 breeds. Not sure yet which ones I would choose for the standard large fowl but definitely interested in a couple of the smaller bantam chickens like Silkie's, D'Anvers and D'Uccles (I adore D'Uccles right now). We have an absolutely beautiful heritage barred rock rooster right now who did win a first place at the fair but we don't have a good place to keep him and as we move forward I'm considering things like how to have a rooster and also have hens that are in condition to be shown without having them live constantly in a cage. At any rate, we are going to sell the rooster if we can and hope that we will be in a position to get another in the future when we have a better place.
Lots of interests outside of chickens. I work in Disability Services in higher education and am interested in Universal Design for Learning and accessibility in general. Also interested in things like gardening, beekeeping, organic everything, etc.
Look forward to learning more from the group.
Cheers,
Lisken
I'm not really new to chickens at all but decided that this may be a good forum for the direction we are headed and some things we would like to do. We is my 14 year old daughter and my husband of almost 22 years. We have been involved with poultry via 4H for almost 5 years now. It started out as a backyard hen project of 4-5 hens and through the years we have been as high as 50 chickens and turkeys. We did the 4H market turkey project a couple of years but I'm not a huge fan of turkeys. Our current flock is around 20 chickens.
We started with just a mixed flock of standard dual purpose birds but as we have moved through the years we are hoping to get a little more specialized. I am very interested in heritage breeds and potentially keeping just 2-4 breeds. Not sure yet which ones I would choose for the standard large fowl but definitely interested in a couple of the smaller bantam chickens like Silkie's, D'Anvers and D'Uccles (I adore D'Uccles right now). We have an absolutely beautiful heritage barred rock rooster right now who did win a first place at the fair but we don't have a good place to keep him and as we move forward I'm considering things like how to have a rooster and also have hens that are in condition to be shown without having them live constantly in a cage. At any rate, we are going to sell the rooster if we can and hope that we will be in a position to get another in the future when we have a better place.
Lots of interests outside of chickens. I work in Disability Services in higher education and am interested in Universal Design for Learning and accessibility in general. Also interested in things like gardening, beekeeping, organic everything, etc.
Look forward to learning more from the group.
Cheers,
Lisken
