Hey all!
I've been lurking about on this site for quite some time, but after getting my most recent batch of feather-butts and planning to build them a more permanent coop, I decided to join up.
My fiance and I just bought our first (and hopefully only) home on two acres of land. Our neighbors are 1 house, a cow pasture, a field, and a large creek. Perfectly private for us! The previous owner of the home had six white leghorns, and left four of them (to our dismay, 3 roos and 1 hen). We had been planning on starting a flock, but this sort of jump-started it.
The house is a major fixer-upper, so other things have had to take a back-seat to that (including the permanent coop). At the moment, the coop is a ramshackle set-up made from the extra bits of fence, chicken wire, and wood which the previous owner (who was a bit of a slob) left lying around.
We recently re-homed two of the roos and we've added a number of new chickens to the mix, bringing our total to 2 white leghorns (roo and a hen), 6 old english game hens, 1 rhode island red hen, 1 silver-laced wyandotte hen, and three (what I think are) EE hens. We wanted a mix of sizes and so far it's been great, though all of the hens save for the sassy leghorn girl aren't quite old enough to lay.
I can't wait to get the final coop built and for the house to be finished so that I can really sit down and enjoy these chickens.
Lookin' forward to learning a lot of stuff on this site!
I've been lurking about on this site for quite some time, but after getting my most recent batch of feather-butts and planning to build them a more permanent coop, I decided to join up.
My fiance and I just bought our first (and hopefully only) home on two acres of land. Our neighbors are 1 house, a cow pasture, a field, and a large creek. Perfectly private for us! The previous owner of the home had six white leghorns, and left four of them (to our dismay, 3 roos and 1 hen). We had been planning on starting a flock, but this sort of jump-started it.
The house is a major fixer-upper, so other things have had to take a back-seat to that (including the permanent coop). At the moment, the coop is a ramshackle set-up made from the extra bits of fence, chicken wire, and wood which the previous owner (who was a bit of a slob) left lying around.
We recently re-homed two of the roos and we've added a number of new chickens to the mix, bringing our total to 2 white leghorns (roo and a hen), 6 old english game hens, 1 rhode island red hen, 1 silver-laced wyandotte hen, and three (what I think are) EE hens. We wanted a mix of sizes and so far it's been great, though all of the hens save for the sassy leghorn girl aren't quite old enough to lay.
I can't wait to get the final coop built and for the house to be finished so that I can really sit down and enjoy these chickens.
Lookin' forward to learning a lot of stuff on this site!
from Ohio. So glad to have you aboard. It sounds like you have a great location. You've come to the right place to learn about chickens. 
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