Official BYC Poll: How Long Have You Been Raising Chickens?

[emMAyTeeTee]

Sorry what are you asking

I think that's a quipe about life being better, slower down under (in Australia and New Zealand). Lol

 

[CHlCKEN]

4 years old doesn't mean you must replace them.

X2. What gave you that idea ChloeSilkie?

 

[Alexandra Runner]

I first became interested in having chickens from a deep desire to homestead, and chickens were first on my list!
I have never "taken a break," and I never intend to.
I started with a dozen RIR "pullets" from a feed store in my town. Three of them turned out to be roosters, haha!

 

[The chicken nurd]

Same here (ish) my parents got me chicks when I was little and I fell in love with them!!! My first “batch” was 2 barred rocks and one RIR. The barred rocks were named Red and Rosy and the RIR was named Chick-Chick. Yeah, I know the names weren’t my strong-suit but I was little welp now I have 15 cuties of all different breeds and sizes, all of which are hens (because we got a cute, fluffy, soft, little, adorable, tiny, silkie roo WITH THE DEVIL IN HIM and my parents never wanted another rooster again)
I’ve never taken a break from keeping chickens and probably never will besides college. Everyone I know thinks I’m crazy because I love chickens so much (I’m literally filed as “the chicken whisperer” in my dentist’s database). Sorry but I guess I’ll always be crazy then!

I get it my friends sometimes just refer to me as the bird whisperer or chicken whisperer
And my first 7 birds all had kinda bad names yours have better names than mine did

 

[Amtorres]

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Beautiful

 

[StinkyAcres]

15 years next month!