Welcome! We moved to OK 8 years ago and it has really grown on us too.Hi, I am Hannah and new to raising chickens. I moved to Oklahoma 3 years ago and LOVE THIS PLACE, I live right outside of Tulsa. My guy bought me a few chickens at a local flea market late last summer, we go to the market almost weekly, and ended up with a few more. I lost 2 in one night to a racoon, and another the next night. It broke my heart!!!! My guy set live traps out and for the next week we caught a coon a night, he took them off when he left for work, I never asked and he never told me what happened to them. A few weeks later he came home with a surprise, 8 Bantam Cochins, 3 blue-3-black-an 2 white!!!!! I was IN LOVE!!!!!!! They were stunning. I now had a white rooster and a blue rooster the rest were all girls. I had a two story rabbit hutch for the first chickens, but we needed something bigger so. . . We purchased a small coop from Atwoods and it served us well threw the winter. I had The blu an blk in the new coop an the wht pair with one small blu hen in the hutch. I was happy, I fed them, kept them with fresh water, and LOVED THEM bunches!!! A week into them being HOME, I realized my wht hen was blind or dang near to it. I had to go out several times a day to splash her water pan and shake her feed so she could eat. Now she does really well and has some sight back. She is my best girl-friend, if i am outside she is with me or trying to find me.Early this spring we built them a larger coop, Thinking I was going to be the best chicken mamma ever, and was really trying. I moved the big group to the new coop, and the 3 amigos got the Atwood coop. Everything was perfect till. . . . .we picked up another random choice 6 a the flea market. An added them to the large coop. Apparently someone was sick, I blame my lil rosecomb. She had always sounded diff, we (not knowing a thing about chickens) thought it might be the way that breed of chicken sounded. I love my birds I really do. I just had no clue. . . . Well, I noticed Big Daddy Cain - blu roo- was congested, so got on line and started looking for help, I found byc!!!! Has been a real EYE OPENER!!! Thank goodness. I have now treated all of my flock with meds, thru out all of this I have treated for lice an mites. The last 6, brought in. . . .Grrrrr. I now know to not add birds to my flock unless they have been kept apart for a month or more, if I ever get another grown bird. I have wormed them all also, just for good measure. I went from proud momma to so ashamed of my self, for not learning more before I got them. I hope to be on the right track and I am trying to learn as much as I can. I can not keep my girls from setting, I have hatched 12 chicks so far, I believe to be all cochin except one. As soon as they were dry I removed them from the coop and have been raising the in a welping box in the garage. That is my chicken tail thus far. . . . . And I am in need of Good Chicken PEEPS!!! lol I have learned that the feed store is not always the best place for info. Ugh. . . . . So once again HI, an my name is Hannah.
I am a HUGE Cochin fan too - I have 35 adults and aprox. 50 chicks, 7 more hatched today.
Edited to change the chick count - i have 47 in the garage and 22 outside! That doesn't count the ones that i already sold!
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