Wesleychicken68
In the Brooder
- Feb 24, 2025
- 5
- 32
- 29
Hi all,
This is my formal introduction but I feel like I've been lurking on this forum since I first got my first lot of three chickens two years ago. Here go my answers to the intro questions:
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
This is a long story so I'll shorten it. I saved my neighbor's chick from certain annihilation from her ducks which killed its five siblings by smothering them. I had a dream that I found a tuxedo cat and called it Wesley Crusher cat. So when the opportunity came for me to adopt her two week old peeper, I called it Wesley. I soon found out that she needed friends so I went to the feedstore and got two stripey babies that I didn't know at the time that I'd fall in love with: Wellsummers. They're so expressive and hilarious. Doc was the rooster and Deanna is the hen and they were all three best buds until last summer the weather got up to 104 and 107 for an extended amount of time and my rooster had upper respiratory (which upon thinking was most likely gape-worm) and passed in front of me. Now I have Safeguard.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
I still have Wesley (the eccentric and crazy Easter Egger who laughs like joker and who screams at me when she wants treats). She tends to get every illness. Deanna is a two-year-old Wellsummer. I picked up three wellsummers this past fall and a bobcat got into my cursory run (a run we have that is for us to corral them but not leave them...I left for five minutes) and he took Belana and I miss her still. She gave herself to save her sisters - one who thought she was a rooster for most of her life, Kahlissa and her sister Seven of Nine. Yes, they're all the Star Trek franchise.
I picked up the new brother, a legbar, leghorn mix, named James T Kirk. He's having a rough time with all of my mean girls so he is in an adjacent cage for now in all activities.
(3) What breeds do you have?
I gues I already answered this above.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens?
Favorite aspects: their personalities, the way they chat with eachother. I chat with them in their own specific speech. They all say something unique. I could list them here but I'm told I do tend to go on...
(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Are you kidding me? Do people have hobbies outside of chickens? So far, my chickens have had worms more than not lately. I trouble shoot Wesley's problems. She had hair worms so badly (and I didn't know because she acts fine all the time) it caused enteritis. Amoxicillon worked so she's back to laying. Anyway - I want hobbies. I'd like to explore California's coast since I just moved back four years ago but I essentially have three flocks right now. Ugh.
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
I have two tabby colored cats - one is a siamese with tabby coloring and the other is a norwegian forest cat tabby. They are indoor only, obviously, and I aspire to build them a catio. We get all of the predators. All there is.
(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community?
This forum has litterally saved my chickens lives. Without the advice on poop and deworming, all of mine would be dead. Right now, they are all thriving, allbeit - spring and worms.
This is my formal introduction but I feel like I've been lurking on this forum since I first got my first lot of three chickens two years ago. Here go my answers to the intro questions:
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
This is a long story so I'll shorten it. I saved my neighbor's chick from certain annihilation from her ducks which killed its five siblings by smothering them. I had a dream that I found a tuxedo cat and called it Wesley Crusher cat. So when the opportunity came for me to adopt her two week old peeper, I called it Wesley. I soon found out that she needed friends so I went to the feedstore and got two stripey babies that I didn't know at the time that I'd fall in love with: Wellsummers. They're so expressive and hilarious. Doc was the rooster and Deanna is the hen and they were all three best buds until last summer the weather got up to 104 and 107 for an extended amount of time and my rooster had upper respiratory (which upon thinking was most likely gape-worm) and passed in front of me. Now I have Safeguard.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
I still have Wesley (the eccentric and crazy Easter Egger who laughs like joker and who screams at me when she wants treats). She tends to get every illness. Deanna is a two-year-old Wellsummer. I picked up three wellsummers this past fall and a bobcat got into my cursory run (a run we have that is for us to corral them but not leave them...I left for five minutes) and he took Belana and I miss her still. She gave herself to save her sisters - one who thought she was a rooster for most of her life, Kahlissa and her sister Seven of Nine. Yes, they're all the Star Trek franchise.
I picked up the new brother, a legbar, leghorn mix, named James T Kirk. He's having a rough time with all of my mean girls so he is in an adjacent cage for now in all activities.
(3) What breeds do you have?
I gues I already answered this above.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens?
Favorite aspects: their personalities, the way they chat with eachother. I chat with them in their own specific speech. They all say something unique. I could list them here but I'm told I do tend to go on...
(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Are you kidding me? Do people have hobbies outside of chickens? So far, my chickens have had worms more than not lately. I trouble shoot Wesley's problems. She had hair worms so badly (and I didn't know because she acts fine all the time) it caused enteritis. Amoxicillon worked so she's back to laying. Anyway - I want hobbies. I'd like to explore California's coast since I just moved back four years ago but I essentially have three flocks right now. Ugh.
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
I have two tabby colored cats - one is a siamese with tabby coloring and the other is a norwegian forest cat tabby. They are indoor only, obviously, and I aspire to build them a catio. We get all of the predators. All there is.
(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community?
This forum has litterally saved my chickens lives. Without the advice on poop and deworming, all of mine would be dead. Right now, they are all thriving, allbeit - spring and worms.
Glad you joined.
