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Glad to meet you two, and welcome to BYC. Sounds like you did well with your meat birds, and are doing well with the RI Reds. Best wishes with all your bird adventures!

This is a great place to learn, and to share what you've learned.
Here are my favorite beginning articles that helped me as a newbie. I hope you will find them helpful as well. All articles are short, have illustrations, and reviews, which are often worth looking at for the comments.

1. Intro to chicken keeping

2. Common mistakes & how to fix them

3. Ventilation (important to chicken health), with helpful links to coop designs organized by climate (because what is just right for my New England hens won't work for my brother's Arizona chickens)

3(a). Farmers Almanac on Building Coops (Includes size requirements!) Allowing plenty of space for chickens is really important because, even as chicks, they will start pecking each other or plucking their own feathers, or become unhealthy if they are overcrowded. Here is a link to Colorado State Extension's publication on space and temperature requirements for chicks as they age.

4. Predator protection for new & existing coops

5. Dealing with a muddy coop and run

6. Gardening for chickens

7. BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures

To look for articles on your own:

A. Use the SEARCH button, but use the Advanced Search choice, and select ARTICLES at the top of the box. Just enter your keyword(s) and scroll through your results!

B. I find it helpful to notice the rating and reviews. All articles are by BYC members, and all the reviews/ratings are as well. The ratings help a newbie like me sort the most useful and reliable articles.

C. You can bookmark the articles or posts you think you want to refer to again using that bookmark icon at the top of articles or posts. You can find them again by clicking on your own avatar and looking at the list of bookmarks you have built up!
 
Shellened said:
Thanks for admittance into this group!

I was told about this site by a friend of mine and am excited to learn.

We have recently purchased a quarter section of land with a home and space for a chicken coop. Last summer, we raised 100 meat birds. We had no clue what we were doing....and we kept 95 alive and they dressed out between 6.5-8 pounds! We then decided to do egg birds. Currently we have 25 Rhode Island Reds that are 17 weeks old and are just starting to lay as well as some 6 month old hens we inherited from an old neighbor. Currently, we are getting 7-9 eggs a day and are so excited.

We are looking at getting more meat birds in the spring and trying out different breeds of layers. We are going to be selling some of our Rhode Island Reds as we found it difficult to find layers that we didn't have to raise from chicks so decided we would help some others out that were in our same boat.
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