New chick family

[Nett575]

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
New to having chickens, only 1 month into this new adventure.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now?

6

(3) What breeds do you have?
Barred Rock, Sapphire Gems, White Leghorns

(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens?
Fresh eggs and fun friends.

(5) What are some of your other hobbies?

Yard work, quitting and painting.

(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.

Soon to be empty nesters, Plus in- laws. w
We also have 3 dogs.

(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community?

A friend told me about this site when we got our chicks and so far I have liked the information I have seen on the site.

 

[A_Fowl_Guy]

Miss Piggy Sue says, “Welcome to our eggcelent flock here at BYC!”

 

[CarpCharacin]

Welcome to BYC! We're glad you decided to join our wonderful community!

 

[MissChick@dee]

Hiya
Nice to meet you!

 

[BlueBaby]

Hello, and welcome! Glad that you joined us here! I'm in Az. also!

 

[Meg-in-MT]

Hello! Welcome to BYC!!

Have you got your coop and run planned out yet? There's a coop article contest going on right now! If you click on forums under the contest section, you'll find it

Feel free to check out the links below for some interesting reading. Good luck on your adventures!

 

[fldiver97]

Welcome Nice to have you here!

 

[Shadrach]

Hello Nett575.
Welcome to BYC.
What type of painting do you do?

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC

Here are some links to key resources:

• List of guides on how to use the site - announcements-feedback-issues-guides.3
• Great resource for beginners = https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/category/learning-center.11/
• Good starting point for browsing the site - https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/
• Interesting feedback on how members manage their flocks -https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/topic-of-the-week-thread-archives
• Excellent source of local information - Find your State's thread.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[KLIL]

Hello from down under Australia and welcome to BYC!
You are going to love it here.

Feel free to pop by and share your daily updates for 2019 with us. We would love to have you join us.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/flock-life-journeys-2019.1286370/

Lovely to meet you and hope to speak more.