Newbie from East Tn

[bacpacker]

Hello folks, Just joined up today although I've been lerking and learning for several months now. There is a ton of info on here and I am having a great time learning from you all.

Just a bit about my flock. I just got started with chickens back in April. I purchased 12 day old Buff Orpington's (supposedly all Buff's). As it turns out I ended up with 9 Buff's 2 RIR's and 1 White leghorn. He didn't show his colors for about 3 weeks.
They are in a chicken tractor right now although the final coop is under construction. I hope to be done with that by the end of Oct. I built it big enough (10x12) to handle up to 30-40 birds if I decide to increase the flock size. It also has room in it to hold 2 55 gallon drums for their feed. The rainwater off the roof will be captured in a 300 gallon plastic tote which will be used for the chickens and garden.
We just started getting eggs last Friday, so we are excited about that.
Back to work

 

[Nmarine1057]

Hi neighbor and

from MS I like your idea about the rainwater very cleaver I can't wait to see pics of your coop!! Glad you decided to join us, I love this forum lots of knowlede here!

 

[greymane]

from the Finger Lakes of New York! Thanks so much for joining us!

 

[bacpacker]

I'll try and get the few pics up of the construction once I figure that out here. I assume you just need to run them thru something like photobucket and upload from there? Or can you download straight to the site?

 

[SilkieBantams]

from Texas

 

[kidcody]

from WA. glad you joined us

 

[redsoxs]

Howdy from Kansas, bacpaker and. Sounds like you have a really good set up going! Best of luck to you!

 

[sumi]

Hello and

You can upload photos directly onto the site, but you will have to post a few times first (15-20 posts, I think), so you're not so new anymore.
Your coop sounds great, like the rainwater collection

 

[4-H chicken mom]

and

from Ohio. So glad you joined. Congrats on the new eggs.

 

[Imp]

Imp