New Chicken Owner - Almost A Year

[DobieLover]

Hello and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Hello everyone. New chicken daddy here. Come here for help and advice. Can’t seem to find anything but “I’m a real farmer and you’re not” arrogance on Facebook groups.

We have a small homestead in development. Our decision not to raise animals for meat comes from us having a source of meat and supporting friends. Go ahead and share that with “real homesteaders” on Facebook and prepare to be ridiculed. We have chickens for eggs and reproduction. We are temp homesteading while we work on the new house. Taking a long time. Anyway; happy to be here. Looking for help with odd and end things.

Flock is 8 hens and a roo for now. Once we get settled; expanding.

I take the responsibilities of caring for other living things very seriously and I can sometimes overwhelm myself with anxiety about doing something wrong when they’ve counted on me solely for life. It’s not a debilitating anxiety; I just don’t want to do something wrong and cause preventable issues. Make sense? Probably not.

Served in the Marine Corps. I suppose that’s where I picked up this desire to do it right 100% of the time when counted on.

Anyway; thanks for having me.

Welcome to BYC!! This is probably the best place to get chicken info and help!
And thank you for your service, sir!

 

[Tookie]

Hi and welcome to BYC!

 

[Fuchsia]

Hello and welcome to BYC.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Hello, and welcome to BYC! We're so glad you decided to join us!

 

[Chickeeaholic]

Hello and welcome! You will fit right in. So many great people here with advice and support raising chickens for many reasons.

You sound like you care a lot and want to do a good job. I understand. It’s a wonderful thing. Blessings and best wish on your endeavors.

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

You won't get ridiculed here

 

[Lovely Lettie]

Welcome to BYC, you are very lucky in finding this awesome community!