Good Afternoon BYC community! This site has already been very instrumental in helping us to get started with our small flock of backyard chickens. I thought I better join! We have already combed through the coop pages and designed our very own coop and run that we're extremely excited about (based on many of the posts here), we 'researched' chicken breeds before buying, and are now researching comb styles since our black and white 'Ameraucana' has a very different comb than the pea combs the other two have. We have six lovely chicks that we're enjoying each an every day. Right now we have six chicks of four different breeds (one Gold Star, one Barred Rock, one Black Australorp and three Ameraucanas (I'm assuming they're really Easter Eggers). Our children named them after flowers (Goldenrod - "Goldie", Rose, Blossom, Lily, Magnolia - "Maggie", and Thistle - she was the feisty one of the group). I'm excited to post pictures of our finished coop and run, and ask questions as they come about. I look forward to learning new information on this site to help us on our 'chicken journey'. Thanks to all who may help us with our questions in the future 
and Welcome To BYC! You can post a picture of your mystery bird in the What Breed/Gender forum for help with figuring out what it is 
