North Carolina

[TarheelBirdy]

Seems like most of you here on this site stay home and have a large scale "farm-like" homestead. Kinda feel out of place with my 6 chicks. I work full time (4 day s a week - 10 hours per day). Just doing this as a hobby and for the fresh eggs. Anyone else out there like me?
I have heard so many saying they need to get more chicks than they really want because of chicks dying. Thankfully, mine are doing well and seem healthy. They really love spinach leaves and clamor to the door of the pen when I come by hoping for a treat. I hold on tight while they all peck away at each leaf. Don't seem as thrilled about broccoli though.
We do have one smaller chick that I keep an eye on. Kinda the runt of the group. She's also the most friendly when it comes to sitting in my hand. They are about 2 weeks old now.

You are definitely not out of place. You are exactly what this site is for. Most of us work full-time, too. I do have a "farm" property, but only because we have horses and we board a few. We love living in the country, but we do not farm crops or make income from our farm. I started with guineas.....the ticks got terrible, and we got four guineas to get the ticks under control. I started to really enjoy them, and started hatching them - I had tons of questions, and found BYC

. Reading on this site made me realize I could manage chickens, and our friends who have a commercial egg operation gave me six hens when they "cleaned out" that years' layers. I fell in love, and thanks to BYC, I have learned so much. I now have a small layer flock of various breeds that I free-range, and I raise Swedish Flower Hens, and sell hatching eggs and chicks occasionally. In the Spring, when the guineas start to lay, I hatch all that I can. It's all very much a hobby for me, but I never do anything halfway, lol (I'm not happy just having some laying hens around), so during the Spring, my incubator stays full of guinea and chicken eggs. I just love it. So keep logging on - this place in invaluable for the knowledge, and there are some amazing people who are so generous with their advice.

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

How did I get SO lucky as to have the only page that is funky??????

Who is punishing me????

 

[Chasity]

My dear hubby allowed my to bring home a new man for my Valentines Day present. His name is Romeo:

He is for my paint girls....lol

He is pretty, I'll be glad when my chicks that I got from Beth are bigger, the Black ones are much nicer than the other set of black SIlkies that I have, that are mature.

Don't let them here me say that though. I still love them.

 

[Hollowoakfarm]

Seems like most of you here on this site stay home and have a large scale "farm-like" homestead. Kinda feel out of place with my 6 chicks. I work full time (4 day s a week - 10 hours per day). Just doing this as a hobby and for the fresh eggs. Anyone else out there like me?
I have heard so many saying they need to get more chicks than they really want because of chicks dying. Thankfully, mine are doing well and seem healthy. They really love spinach leaves and clamor to the door of the pen when I come by hoping for a treat. I hold on tight while they all peck away at each leaf. Don't seem as thrilled about broccoli though.
We do have one smaller chick that I keep an eye on. Kinda the runt of the group. She's also the most friendly when it comes to sitting in my hand. They are about 2 weeks old now.

My chickens started off as just to supply eggs for us, and then expanded rapidly when others started wanting to buy them! And I'm another that works full time. Seems like seven days a week, since I bring work home, too!

I still have emoticons and colors!

 

[2StrayRoos]

Anybody know where I can find some Turkeys? Narragansetts to be more exact...or just some hens.

Have you been to Camden? Thats were I got my last chickens from. Nice place, seems to have everything. I see we got somebody from Greenville here to.

One of my co-workers has some turkeys. Don't know what kind they are. She does't have much luck hatching them out like chickens. We went to TSC Thursday for Valentines day, ate out, bought some chickie stuff, saw the biddies and ducks sooooo cute. Can't wait to get my 4 bantams from a friend of mine. Planning on making the pen bigger first and waiting on the weather. Lost one of my hens I got from Camden during the first snowstorm and the temp. dropped so low, I hated that she laid her first egg the day before. You can also go to Stokes in Grennville at the auction they have for turkeys and some of everything. Or how about Drakes?

 

[2StrayRoos]

My chickens started off as just to supply eggs for us, and then expanded rapidly when others started wanting to buy them! And I'm another that works full time. Seems like seven days a week, since I bring work home, too!

I still have emoticons and colors!

X2

 

[Coop Scoop Boogie]

hey if u go to the bottom of the page u can change it to either mobile or desktop i know it confused me at first too

Thank you so much moomoo!!!!!!

don't know wherewhenhowwhy that button got
touched but after switching back and forth between
them a few times the regular format came back on.

all is right with BYC again

 

[2StrayRoos]

Since we are showing doggie pics, heres my boy Colin

 

[Chasity]

Since we are showing doggie pics, heres my boy Colin

All of these dogs are great! I bet most if not all of the chicken owners on here have at least one dog.

 

[Chasity]

Here is a pair that are gone now. The old bitty momma, Brindle, on the left was very special to us, and Sweet William really did not know that he was a goat.
Oh,... there is DS-2 also a good chicken wrangler.

And this is Wild child-Bailey, with DS-1, Chris chief chicken wrangler. We don't let this puppy around the birds unattended yet. She still has lots to learn, and it was much easier training my old dogs before children.