CurvyCoop
Songster
Hello everyone!
I'm very excited to be here, I've been creepily reading along on this forum for a few weeks now, but finally decided I should just register and become a full fledged (pun intended) member! I'm from the Netherlands and live in the northernmost province of Groningen.
I don't have any chickens of my own yet, sadly we don't have the space. I have a pretty decent backyard, but a large part of it is already take up by my veggie patch and the whole thing is fenced in to give my indoor cats some safe and supervised outside time. With all of that there isn't much room to give any chickens their own space, at least not as much as I think they should have. So for now I'm just dreaming. But hopefully somewhere in the next two-ish years we will be able to move to a place with a lot more space and then, and THEN! THEN THERE SHALL BE CHICKENS!
Until then I enjoy reading about them and thinking about what breeds I'd want and designing my dream coop. I love looking at coop builds on here and they've already given me so much inspiration.
As for breeds, there are a few I really love. First off I adore Croad Langshans. As soon as I learned about them I knew I had to have some. Beautiful big black cuddlebugs who lay pinkish eggs, what's not to love?
I'm also mad for Black Copper Marans, they're just gorgeous and I love their egg colour.
Orpingtons are another favourite, both the buff and the lavender are birds I'd love to own one day.
And I've got a bit of a soft spot for Araucanas and Ameraucanas. The silly little tufts make me laugh and I'm a sucker for coloured eggs so...
In my Ultimate Chicken Fantasy my flock starts with two Croads, two BCMs, one or two Orpingtons and two Araucana/Ameraucana (one laying blue and one laying green), plus a Croad roo because they're so pretty and sweet. And then each year I hope to hatch a few eggs and try to chase that egg rainbow
I'm pretty obsessed with egg colour genetics and especially blooms. I'd love to try and select for heavy bloom layers.
Other breeds I love are:
Cream Legbar
Welsumer
Barnevelder
Isbar
Wyandottes
Sussex
Orloff
Faverolles
and several rare Dutch (and German) breeds like Lakenvelder, Vorwerk and Groninger Meeuw (as someone who lives in Groningen I kinda feel like I should have at least one, right?)
Other than chickens, I love horses. I'm a real horse girl. In the future I hope to have space for a horse or two close to home. I'm a real sucker for Arabians ever since I first started riding them and they've really stolen my heart. I love all horses, but dream of one day owning my own little grey arabian mare.
I do a lot of sewing, I'm currently setting up a teaching business (has covid made that difficult you ask? Nooooo, not at aallllllll...)
Other hobbies include crochet, (vegetable) gardening, baking, drawing and painting, embroidery, hiking and many more
As you can tell I'm a bit of a blabbermouth, but that's the excitement talking ( and there's a lot of that, so I talk a lot
)
It's really great to meet everyone and I'm looking forward to all the chickeny fun around here!
I'm very excited to be here, I've been creepily reading along on this forum for a few weeks now, but finally decided I should just register and become a full fledged (pun intended) member! I'm from the Netherlands and live in the northernmost province of Groningen.
I don't have any chickens of my own yet, sadly we don't have the space. I have a pretty decent backyard, but a large part of it is already take up by my veggie patch and the whole thing is fenced in to give my indoor cats some safe and supervised outside time. With all of that there isn't much room to give any chickens their own space, at least not as much as I think they should have. So for now I'm just dreaming. But hopefully somewhere in the next two-ish years we will be able to move to a place with a lot more space and then, and THEN! THEN THERE SHALL BE CHICKENS!
Until then I enjoy reading about them and thinking about what breeds I'd want and designing my dream coop. I love looking at coop builds on here and they've already given me so much inspiration.
As for breeds, there are a few I really love. First off I adore Croad Langshans. As soon as I learned about them I knew I had to have some. Beautiful big black cuddlebugs who lay pinkish eggs, what's not to love?
I'm also mad for Black Copper Marans, they're just gorgeous and I love their egg colour.
Orpingtons are another favourite, both the buff and the lavender are birds I'd love to own one day.
And I've got a bit of a soft spot for Araucanas and Ameraucanas. The silly little tufts make me laugh and I'm a sucker for coloured eggs so...
In my Ultimate Chicken Fantasy my flock starts with two Croads, two BCMs, one or two Orpingtons and two Araucana/Ameraucana (one laying blue and one laying green), plus a Croad roo because they're so pretty and sweet. And then each year I hope to hatch a few eggs and try to chase that egg rainbow
I'm pretty obsessed with egg colour genetics and especially blooms. I'd love to try and select for heavy bloom layers.
Other breeds I love are:
Cream Legbar
Welsumer
Barnevelder
Isbar
Wyandottes
Sussex
Orloff
Faverolles
and several rare Dutch (and German) breeds like Lakenvelder, Vorwerk and Groninger Meeuw (as someone who lives in Groningen I kinda feel like I should have at least one, right?)
Other than chickens, I love horses. I'm a real horse girl. In the future I hope to have space for a horse or two close to home. I'm a real sucker for Arabians ever since I first started riding them and they've really stolen my heart. I love all horses, but dream of one day owning my own little grey arabian mare.
I do a lot of sewing, I'm currently setting up a teaching business (has covid made that difficult you ask? Nooooo, not at aallllllll...)
Other hobbies include crochet, (vegetable) gardening, baking, drawing and painting, embroidery, hiking and many more
As you can tell I'm a bit of a blabbermouth, but that's the excitement talking ( and there's a lot of that, so I talk a lot
)It's really great to meet everyone and I'm looking forward to all the chickeny fun around here!
Welcome to Backyard Chickens. Enjoy your time here!
