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Hello,
I'm new to posting in the group. I find a lot of the articles to be very informative for new comers. I've been around chickens since I was a kid but it is still a learning battle.
I started with 10 of my own, got up to around 70, lost a few to being sick and my children helping, bought some, lost some to pigs getting out and breaking in to eat the 'good food' and chickens escaping, lost eggs to numerous snakes, working on incubating a little less than 100 (go big or go home).
I laugh at chicken math stories and my husband said this/that. I've been there.
I've bough chicks from a feed store, saved a chick, medicated a chick/chicken, saved a severely injured chicken, I've let my hens hatch eggs, snuck chick's under a broody hen, had too many roosters, but I'm still learning. I've had my good and bad days. My kids help but this is what my husband calls a maternal thing; stupid need to raise things. I guess he's right. I have chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and recently lost all my pigs. I've had to dispatch predators and cull chickens/rabbits.
I love my chickens. Once they get names they are pets and can be freeloaders. I try to refrain from giving names so I have any option with giving them away or eating them. I am a chicken mom. I have a long time friend (with a brain injury) that will forget people's names and he has referred to me as The Chicken Lady.... I have plenty of friends online that follow my exciting and adventures life. I love to travel and have made my own feeding/watering systems that can tend to all my animals while I'm gone.
Thank you for such a informative group with volunteers of knowledgeable experienced based suggestions. Everything in life is trial and error but having someone else make the error sure makes life easier. Now that I've found this (and others) group I have made less of my own errors.
 

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EastTXMom said:
Hello,
I'm new to posting in the group. I find a lot of the articles to be very informative for new comers. I've been around chickens since I was a kid but it is still a learning battle.
I started with 10 of my own, got up to around 70, lost a few to being sick and my children helping, bought some, lost some to pigs getting out and breaking in to eat the 'good food' and chickens escaping, lost eggs to numerous snakes, working on incubating a little less than 100 (go big or go home).
I laugh at chicken math stories and my husband said this/that. I've been there.
I've bough chicks from a feed store, saved a chick, medicated a chick/chicken, saved a severely injured chicken, I've let my hens hatch eggs, snuck chick's under a broody hen, had too many roosters, but I'm still learning. I've had my good and bad days. My kids help but this is what my husband calls a maternal thing; stupid need to raise things. I guess he's right. I have chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and recently lost all my pigs. I've had to dispatch predators and cull chickens/rabbits.
I love my chickens. Once they get names they are pets and can be freeloaders. I try to refrain from giving names so I have any option with giving them away or eating them. I am a chicken mom. I have a long time friend (with a brain injury) that will forget people's names and he has referred to me as The Chicken Lady.... I have plenty of friends online that follow my exciting and adventures life. I love to travel and have made my own feeding/watering systems that can tend to all my animals while I'm gone.
Thank you for such a informative group with volunteers of knowledgeable experienced based suggestions. Everything in life is trial and error but having someone else make the error sure makes life easier. Now that I've found this (and others) group I have made less of my own errors.
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Wow love your story thank you for sharing it Welcome to Backyard Chickens We are so pleased to have a member
 
Hi and welcome to BYC - great that you have joined us. I am sure that your knowledge and experience will be a great asset to the site. It would be great if you could share / help out where you can.

BYC has a sister site - BackYardHerds.com that may be helpful with your pig project, although quite a few members raise them here.

You may wish to consider joining your state thread as it will put you in touch with other BYC members in your area - http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/270925/find-your-states-thread#post_3239224

All the best

Pork Pie
 
I'm not certain but, you may need to post a few more times before you respond to any
thread or article.

BYC has had a number of spam attacks & trolls in the past & has had to put some restrictions into affect to weed them out. Often they have a few posts and then do their best to cause issues on the site.

You could welcome a few new members as we are doing to you, to accumulate more posts. Welcome to Backyard chickens. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we do. :frow
 
drumstick diva said:
I'm not certain but, you may need to post a few more times before you respond to any
thread or article.

BYC has had a number of spam attacks & trolls in the past & has had to put some restrictions into affect to weed them out. Often they have a few posts and then do their best to cause issues on the site.

You could welcome a few new members as we are doing to you, to accumulate more posts. Welcome to Backyard chickens. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we do. :frow
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Thank you. I'll try that.
 

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