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YdidUbuyMoarChknz said:
I now have 7 chickens. They aren’t technically my chickens. They are my neighbor’s, but she’s too old to manage caring for them. She also views them as egg dispensers and has zero empathy or compassion for them. I couldn’t bare to see them looking so neglected every time I went into my backyard, so…

I’ve been caring for them for about 3 years. I’ve had to cull a few, which finally resulted in 4 being left. She promised me she was done with having a backyard flock, but yesterday she went and got 3 more, which she just tossed into the enclosure. Then she updated me afterwards. Yup.

They are a mix of breeds. She doesn’t tell me where they came from. She clearly doesn’t know anything about breeds. It seems she believes all chickens are Rhode Island Reds. I think there are potentially no RIRs in the flock. lol! The 3 newbies are Buff Orpingtons. The 4 older ones are mixed breeds and possibly one Cinnamon Queen.

The older hens love me. I think it’s because I’m the only person that has shown them respect and empathy. Also, I feed them treats and fixed up their space to be more comfortable. They live in an open-air enclosure with a roof. It was in an unacceptable state previously, and I’m limited to whatever I can amend without tearing it down and starting fresh. This is but one of my challenges. There is no potential for biological controls, none of them have any medical care short of myself doing it, and they aren’t free-range. So now I’m Dr. YdidUbuyMoarChknz, and my education is from this forum and the school of hard knocks.

Who has time for other hobbies while maintaining a flock in these conditions?! lol. When I find free time, I’m an artist… mixed media. It’s a hobby rather than an occupation because I don’t make income from it yet. I’m thinking that there’s eventually going to be some overlap between the 2 jobs, and it’ll result in chicken-based art, or a ‘coop’ that’s very visually interesting.

I have 7 cats and 1 husband. I enjoy the chickens’ personalities. I love animals and they love me. If I were to have my own flock, they’d have been raised from chicks and conditioned to being handled. I’d have almost everything automated. I definitely wouldn’t have them in an unshaded yard in the eastern NC elements, with no dedicated water or electric sources. I would also have a full walk-in. How did people actually clean those short lean-to pens without killing their backs?
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