So did you jump in with both feet or?

[MNmommy]

as soon as our city passed an ordinance that we can have chickens I was planning the coop and researching different breeds.


I have wanted chickens for so many years just never lived anywhere that was legal ....now I just need to move somewhere so I can have roosters

 

[PlumTuckered]

I was born and raised in the city. I always collected anything Chicken, Duck, Goose, Sheep..even wallpapered my house in all of those critters LOL
When I married my second Husband in 2000 he lived on 7 acres and we had 1 Mule, 3 Horses, 2 dogs, 2 cats. He retired in '05 and we moved to southeast Arkansas onto the 34 acre land that has been in his family since the 1700's. We built my dream house ourselves and then ordered 43 day old chicks. We've given many grown hens and roos away to friends that wanted to get started in chickens and we have an order of 36 day old chicks coming from McMurray in about 10 days. Three weeks ago I bought 5 Pekin ducklings from a local feed store and they've totally captured my heart, I'd love to get about another dozen ducks!
I guess I'm an "all in" type LOL

Michelle

 

[mylilchix]

My son and I took a City Chickens class last May, so we could learn how to raise them. That quickly led to 21 chickens, and my poor hubby spending the summer building me a coop and run. We ended up with 6 roos from that group, so they went to freezer camp with 10 CRx I had gotten.

I spent a few months just enjoying my chooks, and then the addiction took hold.

In February I started adding chicks, bought a bator, and started buying hatching eggs. We're now up to 3 coops, 53 chickens, and 14 eggs waiting to go in the bator. I've gone from lets have fresh eggs to lets breed chickens, lol!!

Sonja

 

[Zahboo]

I think i belly flopped

My first flock was 5 chickens, and i began coop construction when they were 7 weeks old

I had to ask feed store what to feed them, then learned it was wrong thing (I was feeding scratch and grain, not starter) So yeah, total belly flop

 

[bethandjoeync]

we started with the THOUGHT of getting 4 grown hens and a roo. and then we bought 16 day-old chicks and 4 grown hens. and just added 6 more 6week old chicks. so jumping in with both feet and nearly over our heads would be a good assessment

 

[LovinMyPeeps]

I bought a house in a rural town with 1/4 acre. Then I thought... .hmmm... I bake and go through a LOT of organic eggs... soo.... chickens. I bought a book. Read it cover to cover, then contacted Ideal and ordered 8. Seemed like a reasonable number. But then TSC chick days happened and there were these little bantams being delivered while I stood there... sooooo... 6 more chicks later. The addiction has begun. I'm already looking at investing in a farm

 

[ilovechickens]

I was given a Buff Cochin Rooster with 2 Braham pullets that had 7 chicks, that was 3 years ago, I lost my Rooster to one of his sons, they had a hidden cock fight until one was dead, I say hidden because they were fighting in the woods out of sight for my new flock of chicks that were EE's. Out of the seven chicks that I received, all but one were roo's

, so after losing my beloved Roo, I went to the fair to find another Cochin Roo which I did along with a Cochin pullet. So my next order went in for Cochin pullets and bantams. I now this year have received 21 chicks from my first order in March, 25 from my second order in April, 7 that came also in April from a fellow BYC member, and I am getting 4-15 week old Black Copper Maran's and 4 - 4 week old Black Copper Marans, and 5 Blue Cuckoo Marans that will be 1 week old. So I jumped in with both feet, and a couple of others

 

[misty7850]

Moved home from FL to help my aging father with his small hobby farm.. So he got me into it. He passed away in Feb at 86 years young r/t an accident here on the farm. We all miss him greatly and we thought about packin it in and moving back to FL. But decided to stay on the farm and keep doing what dad loved. Well it grows on ya, and we love it too. especially the chickens.

 

[Crickett]

Well, to start with I was only going to get 4 pullets and a cockerel. Went to TSC and they had a rule that you could only but in quantities of 6. So I bought 6. then on the way home, stopped at the CO-OP and bought 4 more. A couple days later ANOTHER four at the CO-OP. Then went to the CHicken and Egg festival and bought four there! And DH keeps adding to our flock as well! Now I have 26 chicks, and 26 eggs in the bator. Guess I'm an "all in" type.

 

[StrawberryHouseMouse]

I was raised on a farm and we had tons of chickens. So technicly Ive never had a chance to NOT be a chicken owner. Chickens have always been a part of my life. They were a part of my house hold even before I was.