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In the Brooder
- Aug 6, 2017
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(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
From my first memories we always had chickens when i was growing up. Then no chickens for 25 years till 5 years ago.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
aprox 95 including "meatkings - temporary."
(3) What breeds do you have?
mostly barnyard but have some pure orpingtons, sussex, buckeye and silkie.
(4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com?
Google
(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Hunting, fishing in my free time, LOL!
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
I have 8 children. I work full time - shift work as an industrial electrician/instrument tech and own a family farm. People often mistakenly call it a hobby farm, it is way more then a hobby it is a way of life which I love.
Pets/livestock.
4 dogs: 2 Newfoundland, 1 german shorthaired pointer and one Kuvasz - 450lb of dogs.
4 cats: 1 himalayan and 3 mixed, 2 of which are the most wonderful barn cats.
3 horses: canadian, quarter horse and morgan.
1 draft pony.
5 nigerian dwarf goats.
3 pigs: 2 berkshire - boar and sow. 1 berkshire/pietrain sow - great mom.
16 sheep not including lambs: trying to develope a hardy medium sized ewe with resistance to worms that can fatten on pasture. also some for wool - my wife loves to knit. Blueface leicester, horned dorset, southdown, texel, shetland and suffolk.
3 ducks: muscovy, mallards.
14 turkeys: beltsville small white, broad breasted white, eastern wild, bronze.
10 rabbits: flemish giants, jersey woolies.
gold fish and brook trout in a pond.
From my first memories we always had chickens when i was growing up. Then no chickens for 25 years till 5 years ago.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
aprox 95 including "meatkings - temporary."
(3) What breeds do you have?
mostly barnyard but have some pure orpingtons, sussex, buckeye and silkie.
(4) How did you find out about BackYardChickens.com?
(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Hunting, fishing in my free time, LOL!
(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
I have 8 children. I work full time - shift work as an industrial electrician/instrument tech and own a family farm. People often mistakenly call it a hobby farm, it is way more then a hobby it is a way of life which I love.
Pets/livestock.
4 dogs: 2 Newfoundland, 1 german shorthaired pointer and one Kuvasz - 450lb of dogs.
4 cats: 1 himalayan and 3 mixed, 2 of which are the most wonderful barn cats.
3 horses: canadian, quarter horse and morgan.
1 draft pony.
5 nigerian dwarf goats.
3 pigs: 2 berkshire - boar and sow. 1 berkshire/pietrain sow - great mom.
16 sheep not including lambs: trying to develope a hardy medium sized ewe with resistance to worms that can fatten on pasture. also some for wool - my wife loves to knit. Blueface leicester, horned dorset, southdown, texel, shetland and suffolk.
3 ducks: muscovy, mallards.
14 turkeys: beltsville small white, broad breasted white, eastern wild, bronze.
10 rabbits: flemish giants, jersey woolies.
gold fish and brook trout in a pond.
I bet your farm is beautiful, I can just visualise all of the animals. I'm just lucky I live in suburbia or I'd be expanding into horses and goats and everything as well.
