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I am not a chicken owner but I fell in love with our neighbors chickens from two doors down.

We recently moved to our house a year ago and would randomly see chickens wandering far off in our backyard in the spring. They started coming up to us by fall so we began buying them chicken food. Then they started coming to our door everyday and that led to us naming them.

There are 7 chickens all together. Frida, Ms. Gaines, Mutton, the twins, Blackie, and Betsy. We still haven't met the owners to ask what kind of chickens they are. :) Their favorite "candy" seems to be meal worms and sun flower seeds. They like to burrow in our bushes so we scatter the ground with dyatimatious earth.

It's now gotten colder out but on warm days they still wobble over to The Candy House. We love them so much! It's nice to share what we are calling partial custody of the girls.
 

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TheCandyHouse said:
I am not a chicken owner but I fell in love with our neighbors chickens from two doors down.

We recently moved to our house a year ago and would randomly see chickens wandering far off in our backyard in the spring. They started coming up to us by fall so we began buying them chicken food. Then they started coming to our door everyday and that led to us naming them.

There are 7 chickens all together. Frida, Ms. Gaines, Mutton, the twins, Blackie, and Betsy. We still haven't met the owners to ask what kind of chickens they are. :) Their favorite "candy" seems to be meal worms and sun flower seeds. They like to burrow in our bushes so we scatter the ground with dyatimatious earth.

It's now gotten colder out but on warm days they still wobble over to The Candy House. We love them so much! It's nice to share what we are calling partial custody of the girls.
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What a great story! Looks like your son is bending down to a gold laced Wyandotte, the black one looks like an Australorp, a silver laced Wyandotte and 2 Brahmas.
 
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Hi! :frow Welcome to BYC! That's a very sweet communal flock! I recommend you find the neighbors and talk to them. If the girls are getting treats from you and from the owners they may not be getting the nutrition they need from their actual flock feed. Treats should be no more than 10% of a chickens food intake. Have you thought about getting any chickens of your own?
 
TheCandyHouse said:
I am not a chicken owner but I fell in love with our neighbors chickens from two doors down.

We recently moved to our house a year ago and would randomly see chickens wandering far off in our backyard in the spring. They started coming up to us by fall so we began buying them chicken food. Then they started coming to our door everyday and that led to us naming them.

There are 7 chickens all together. Frida, Ms. Gaines, Mutton, the twins, Blackie, and Betsy. We still haven't met the owners to ask what kind of chickens they are. :) Their favorite "candy" seems to be meal worms and sun flower seeds. They like to burrow in our bushes so we scatter the ground with dyatimatious earth.

It's now gotten colder out but on warm days they still wobble over to The Candy House. We love them so much! It's nice to share what we are calling partial custody of the girls.
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Welcome to BackYardChickens! So glad to have you here in our wonderful community of friendly, helpful, knowledgeable people! You're such a kind person to be taking such a kind interest in the birds. Bless you!!
 
Hello and welcome to BYC! :frow Glad you joined.
Your neighbors have a beautiful flock! If you are going to give them treats consider getting a bag of Flock Raiser crumbles and spreading that out. My birds eat it like scratch but it's a high protein healthy complete feed.
 

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