Poll- how did your flock begin?

[PippinTheChicken]

We are all (most of us) up to a point where we have a large flock. But, how did it all start? Eggs? Chicks? Adoption? In 21 days, poll will tell us the most popular way that people start their POULTRY ADVENTURE!
Remember- it is a single choice because you are only submitting about your first hens/roos, not new ones...
For example: I bought my first hens as 2 PoL hens from a breeder so I would select: Bought adult hens/roosters

 

[PippinTheChicken]

5 people have voted including me

 

[turkey girl 0964]

We bought our first batch of babies 5 years ago. We got 1 RIR, 4 Austrolorpes, 1 Orpington, and 3 Barred Rocks. Out of that group we still have Red the RIR and Blackie the Austrolorpe.

 

[AntiqueB]

I bought 3 chicks online last summer, but one turned out to be a cockerel. I put in an order for 2 more this June! But my kid was also given an egg at a chicken expo, so that one's in the incubator, due to hatch next Wednesday. . .

 

[EmmaRainboe]

First ever batch was from a breeder. An Ameraucana and a bunch of mutts. Second batch was from same breeder, three more Ameraucanas, third batch was a bunch of mutts. Plus a few adoptions here and there.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Not really sure where my answer fits best, but I guess 'rehoming' is probably the closest?

The short version of the story is that when we were kids, my sister went and stayed at a farm for a week or two with a friend and brought home some chicks that had hatched while she was there, even though my parents had said that she was absolutely not to bring anything home. She grew bored of them once they weren't cute and fuzzy anymore, but I had always wanted chickens even before this happened and I was in love from the get go, so they became mine. I've maintained a flock ever since!

 

[Sheepheart]

A coworker had a friend who got ducklings to be friends with a single duck she had gotten earlier in the year, she didn’t introduce them correctly and just gave the duck the ducklings, I think there was a month to three month age difference, so her first duck was a bit aggressive towards the ducklings. She kept them all until the ducklings were about a month and a half away from laying before deciding they needed a new home, my coworker asked if I could take them since I lived on a farm. So about two or three weeks later the lady showed up an hour before my shift ended with these two ducks in a cardboard box, thanked me for taking them, told me how her other duck would attack them every time she put them together, thanked me again, asked me not to eat them, thanked me again, and then left. Just two ducks in a cardboard box.

I had to text my mom to have her bring one of the dog crates for them. And then when I got off my shift go buy feed, bedding, waterers, just about everything. I was given no notice about her bringing the ducks that day. And actually no confirmation that she was following through with giving me the ducks.

 

[Erin80]

We got 5 barred rock chicks to start. Within a week we had 3 silkies and two Ameraucanas also.
4 years later we still have one of our barred rocks (one died, sold the other 3), our Ameraucana hen (other was a roo), and two of the silkies (one was a roo and was rehomed).

And we have expanded from there.......lol.

 

[Jennc-123]

I was afraid of birds and decided to conquer my fear

 

[neo71665]

Bought 12 baby chicks and was given an adult rooster. The rooster has since passed but his son has taken over.