New Meaning to Chick Flicks

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MimiVC said:
Greetings from Retirees in Northern CA near the Oregon border who are excited to experience the new chick raising adventures ahead! My husband and I picked out our first 12 pullet baby chicks on April 1st. Nope, this is not an April Fools joke. We got 4 each from 3 bins: Isa Browns, NovoGen Browns, and the Easter Color Pack. We bought them for their potential future egg production, but our chicks are so entertaining...better than TV. We have a Roo who is already ruling the roost. We are 2nd year newbie gardeners growing food in our own backyard. So timely with all that’s happening with our world with the COVID19 virus and economy. We doubled our garden area to provide produce for a young family in the area along with our grown family (grands too) and whoever else we are able to serve. Being newbies I am eager to learn all I can about raising chicks and gardening so I do a lot of research. My husband is so gracious with all the ideas I find on YouTube along with websites like the BackYard Chicken. BYC provides timely help to better understand the ins and outs of chick rearing. Thanks so much for creating this group. Also a bigs thanks for all of you who are contributing your fun and not so fun facts! A true reality show!!
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Welcome! Chickens provide endless entertainment. They make the worse of outdoor chores tolerable. Tilling my garden was a blast because the girls were putting in the work too!
 
humblehillsfarm said:
Welcome! Chickens provide endless entertainment. They make the worse of outdoor chores tolerable. Tilling my garden was a blast because the girls were putting in the work too!
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Aw another kindred heart, we do enjoy a new challenge. We have raised beds in the first half of the garden because of varmints. Gophers, Voles, moles oh no! Tilled and amended a new section a few weeks ago but wondering if we will get any crops with these pesky critters if we plant in ground? Do your chickens chase these pesties? What’s your gardening zone? Where, if you care to share? Our rural area is filled with wild life & predators from skunks to cougars and a few bears. Converted a shed with cement floor & 2x6 insulated walls into our chicken coop. They are loving the run & flap room! Come running to us when we enter hoping we come bearing treats. So fun! We’re loved!
 
I love Chicken TV. It is especially great when they play chicken football with an exceptional treat. Mine love leftover pancakes - tear into 1" pieces and scatter in the run and sit back and enjoy the show.

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My sister lives near Eureka, California. She got married at Elk Meadows.
Very pretty area.
 
MimiVC said:
Aw another kindred heart, we do enjoy a new challenge. We have raised beds in the first half of the garden because of varmints. Gophers, Voles, moles oh no! Tilled and amended a new section a few weeks ago but wondering if we will get any crops with these pesky critters if we plant in ground? Do your chickens chase these pesties? What’s your gardening zone? Where, if you care to share? Our rural area is filled with wild life & predators from skunks to cougars and a few bears. Converted a shed with cement floor & 2x6 insulated walls into our chicken coop. They are loving the run & flap room! Come running to us when we enter hoping we come bearing treats. So fun! We’re loved!
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I live in zone 6a, but I just moved to a new home. My old garden was a 10x20 raised bed system that was completely critter (including chicken) proof. My new garden is 40x100'. a HUGE increase in size! We are not 100% done. The rows are raised, but they are not built raised garden beds. In the future I'd love to build raised beds for the sake of my back. The chickens will be fenced out, but I think when the produce has some good growth I'll let the hens in and see what they do! We do have a small number of bears, but I've never seen then. We definitely have a large pack of coyotes, racoon, fox, and bobcats. When we first plowed the garden ground moles went running! Hopefully they won't come back. Right now my girls free range because I've lacked the time to build them a run, but it's in the game plan! I love when my gals come running. Makes my day better every time :)
 

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