New Chicken Boo

[Lilalienangel]

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I live in Idaho. So I recently started in with chickens. I have 5 I hatched myself.
2 Isbars
1 Swedish Flower
1 Maran
1 Golden Spitshauben (featured in avatar)
I also have 6 Mille Fluers I bought at 2 weeks old.
The Swedish Flower is 1/4 blind as she hatched early and can't fully open an eye. She is my special needs bird. Side note does anyone know if that can be fixed? They are about 8 weeks old now and man do I LOVE them. I have PTSD and I love sitting with them. I they calm me down. They are soooo spaztastic! They even crawl into my lap to sleep sometimes. I first got into them because I was sick of store eggs but they snagged me hard. I am addicted. To the whole process. Hatching them, watching them spaztasticly grow!! I catch myself looking at hatching eggs on Ebay all the time. I have 11 birds now and they are only 8 weeks. Lolol
When I sit outside I look like one of those pigeon covered homeless people in films only with chickens.
To bad I can't register chickens as therapy animals. I have a fear of having to move and get rid of them. They really do mean that much to me. I researched thoroughly before buying the eggs but there is always more to learn and I found myself learning alot of out here. So I joined! Thanks for all future guidance. Here are some of my favorite pictures through my chicken adventures.

 

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC. Thanks for sharing your pics.

Here are some links to useful resources:

• List of guides on how to use the site - “How to...” guides
• Great go-to resource - Learning Centre
• Good starting point for browsing the site - Articles
• Insightful feedback on how members manage their flocks - Topic of the Week back-catalogue
• Excellent sources of local information - U.S. States thread list

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUNomenal community! Best wishes and have lots of fun with your adorable flock!

 

[Lilalienangel]

Thank you both for your replies. I am trying to find a medical section to ask about my special needs baby. I can't find it but I know there must be one. Can you help me out? I would like to put it in the right spot.

 

[Pork Pie]

Thank you both for your replies. I am trying to find a medical section to ask about my special needs baby. I can't find it but I know there must be one. Can you help me out? I would like to put it in the right spot.

Use these links

Read this first

Then post here

 

[FortCluck]

You can find the medical section under the forums

Here's the link

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures.10/

 

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.
Your chicks are adorable! Wait until you get that first egg.

 

[PioneerChicks]

Your chickens a beautiful and cute!
I know, store eggs stink. I am planning on doing an article about store eggs vs. farm eggs, so I am trying to gathered much info as I can, so, what don't you like about them?
I heard somewhere that you can list chickens as therapy birds, but that might not be true.

 

[Lilalienangel]

Use these links

Read this first

Then post here

Well it is just a birth defect and not a medical emergency. Is that the right spot? She just has an eye that wont fully open. It is fully functional other than that and is certainly no emergency.

 

[Lilalienangel]

Your chickens a beautiful and cute!
I know, store eggs stink. I am planning on doing an article about store eggs vs. farm eggs, so I am trying to gathered much info as I can, so, what don't you like about them?
I heard somewhere that you can list chickens as therapy birds, but that might not be true.

Between the massive cruelty in factory farming and how they "prepare" them I decided I was done with store eggs.