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purplerangermama

purplerangermama

In the Brooder
9 Years
Feb 4, 2010
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Arvada
Hello!
What a wonderful community, I am so very excited to have found you! Here is a little about me, Purpleranger Mama

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am new to chickens. We just cleaned out our two old coops. We need to find the best way to sterilize and prep them for about 20+ chickens.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
None, but we would like to start with about 20.

(3) What breeds do you have?
We don't know???? Can I have more than one breed? Which ones go best together?/ These are probably better questions in the individuals forums!! I will get there.

(4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com?
ASK.com

(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Well my kids and I just want to be like "pioneers" so we work towards that every day. We raise rabbits and dogs and, well kids!!

(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
Family of 6 and growing. Living on our dream farm in the middle of the city -- WOW!

Thanks for letting me share!
 
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You need to make the search button your best friend!! And I finished reading 'Backyard chickens for Dummys' this week and highly recommend it. It is written by our BYC CEO. Good luck with the planning and learning.
 
Howdy neighbor
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I don't have chickens, but I have ducks and quail (chicken eggs make me break out in hives).

If I was to get chickens, I always thought Faverolles would be great.
 
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From Minnesota. You may want to go with the old stand by, Buff Orpingtons. They lay large brown eggs, will go broody and sit on eggs, have a nice dispostion and will do fine in colder climates.
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Howdy Neighbor,
Yes, you can have more than one kind of chicken unless you're wanting a purebred flock to breed and sell. If you're just going for eggs you can get whatever looks pretty to you and lays well. I have a rather large flock of Easter Egger chickens. They're all purebred but they're all different colors and have the cutest little beards. And of course the bonus is that they lay these really cool pink, blue, tan or green eggs. A neighbor man recently gave us his flock of white leghorns and another flock of Rhode Islands. I already had a small pen of Rhode Islands so that was a pretty cool way to enlarge my operation very quickly. And we also have Buff Orps just because they're so pretty and mellow. We have turkeys that I absolutely love and geese that I adore. We'll be hatching soon too if you want to start with babies out of good strong Colorado stock.
 

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