Rookie chicken Papa

[4 ever Orpington]

Raised in the city and visited the relatives in the country some as a youth.
Never helped with the livestock much. Moved out here not quite country but have some elbow room. Always wanted some chickens for the eggs. Bought 4 Leghorns and 3 Easter Eggers. 2 Eggers went to DIL. Appears I have 3 Roos. 1 Egger named Nugget and 2 I think are Japanese Bantam (not leghorns) Goldie and Omelet. Talk about a plan going wrong. I then bought 3 more chicks: Barred Rock - Loretta, Rhode Island Red - Stella, Easter egger - Amelia.
Built a pretty nice coop with attached run as we have red fox, coons, opossum and red shoulder/tailed hawks, bald eagles. I need to rehome at least the Egger as he starts crowing around 5 and goes till about 6:30 then quite a lot thruout the day.

 

[JedJackson]

Welcome to BYC! I hope you enjoy the website. It is a bummer you didn't get the chickens you wanted and have to deal with re-homing cockerels so soon into the game, but it has happened to many in here, if that is any consolation. We have a re-homing forum that might be useful, and you can also try in your local thread in the members location forum. Good luck!

 

[Pork Pie]

Hello and welcome to our community.
This is a useful link of BYC guides to take a look at announcements-feedback-issues-guides.3 I’d suggest including your location using the guide in that link. You can use this link to contact members in your area - Find your State's thread.

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[BigATC]

Glad you joined us. I'm a rookie also having just got chicks last Aug. This site is amazing! Articles and threads already exist for almost everything I wanted to look up. Use the search function or just browse. Good luck with the roo. I managed to relocate one from my flock.

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us

 

[Kiki]

Welcome to BYC.
We are glad you joined this flock!
Jump right in and make yourself at home.

This video will help you learn how to navigate this site:

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[Madtaz]

Raised in the city and visited the relatives in the country some as a youth.
Never helped with the livestock much. Moved out here not quite country but have some elbow room. Always wanted some chickens for the eggs. Bought 4 Leghorns and 3 Easter Eggers. 2 Eggers went to DIL. Appears I have 3 Roos. 1 Egger named Nugget and 2 I think are Japanese Bantam (not leghorns) Goldie and Omelet. Talk about a plan going wrong. I then bought 3 more chicks: Barred Rock - Loretta, Rhode Island Red - Stella, Easter egger - Amelia.
Built a pretty nice coop with attached run as we have red fox, coons, opossum and red shoulder/tailed hawks, bald eagles. I need to rehome at least the Egger as he starts crowing around 5 and goes till about 6:30 then quite a lot thruout the day.

Thank you all for the welcome and feedback as I will definitely need it.

 

[drumstick diva]

Hope you will enjoy Backyard Chickens as much as we do