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[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Hi. From western Michigan. Inherited 2 older laying chickens and a coop when we purchased a fixer upper home. Want to learn how to take care of them. They seem happy right now. Previous owner left us with water container, the covered coop and run and suggestion for food to feed them. Want to have someone to ask if we run into any issues.

Ok depending on your backyard you could free-range them that makes all chickens very happy. However you need to predator safe the area and maybe get two more hend for safety. You can choose lots of different feeds, but they do good on a omnivore diet of bugs and plants. You can get pellets which gave plenty of nutrients and protein. Also the egg industry uses cheap poor quality gluten feed and if you use pellets with all these good ingredients you will get beautiful and delicious orange almost caramel yolks with great flavor. Trust me I use pellets with ground up cricket, mealworms, and plenty of vegetables and plants all made into the perfect pellets with a little corn grain in it as well.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Also a very welcome hello from me.

 

[Blue Raptor]

Hi. From western Michigan. Inherited 2 older laying chickens and a coop when we purchased a fixer upper home. Want to learn how to take care of them. They seem happy right now. Previous owner left us with water container, the covered coop and run and suggestion for food to feed them. Want to have someone to ask if we run into any issues.

Welcome to BYC!!

 

[SilverBirds]

Welcome! Thanks for joining us.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and welcome to BYC.

 

[fuzzi]

Hi. From western Michigan. Inherited 2 older laying chickens and a coop when we purchased a fixer upper home. Want to learn how to take care of them. They seem happy right now. Previous owner left us with water container, the covered coop and run and suggestion for food to feed them. Want to have someone to ask if we run into any issues.

Welcome!

You've come to the right place for information and advice. I get lost for hours in the threads!

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

Welcome to BYC @Orshalchick

 

[Tookie]

Hi and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined!

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens. Enjoy your time here!

Thanks for joining our community!