Starting A New Flock in Florida🐥🌴

[swampfox440]

Welcome to BYC! best of luck to you, thanks for joining us.

 

[chrissynemetz]

Hello, and welcome to BYC! It's very nice to meet you! Please make yourself at home!

 

[Boppo]

Glad to meet you, and welcome to BYC. Here are some articles about chicken illnesses and cures, so maybe you will feel more in control. Your nursing background should be a big help to you and your birds! Congratulations on the new chicks and best wishes with all your chicken adventures!

BYC Lists of Chicken Ailments and Cures

Here are some more articles:

1. Chicken ailments (an aging index to articles written over the years about chicken illnesses. Be aware that some of the links dont work and some of the authors have disappeared from BYC. The date of the index is 2012! Nothing else as comprehensive) and this updated

Chicken Illnesses Library

1 a. Treating Sour Crop and Impacted Crop and How to Tell the Difference and Prevention and Treatments of Crop Disorders

1 b. Chicken Poop

1 c. What to expect as your hen passes away from old age

1 d. Vaccinating chicks for Mareks Disease

2. Chicken First Aid Kit (again, an older article, but a good one; there have been a number of more recent posts discussing this here and here, for instance)

3. Things I wish I knew before I got my first chick (covers chicks to old age)

4. Maintaining a healthy coop (with lots of links)

5. Natural healing (there are items in this article that some members may disagree with, notably the use of diatomaceous earth)

 

[Kenneth Zweerink]

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. Thank's for Sharing all the Beautiful picture's! And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska.

 

[sourland]

Welcome to BYC, and good luck with your new home and flock.

 

[007Sean]

Howdy, and Welcome to Backyard Chickens.

Happy to have you here with us. Enjoy your time here at BYC!

Thanks for joining our community!

 

[Tookie]

Hello! Welcome to BYC!

 

[N F C]

Congratulations on re-establishing a flock!

 

[rjohns39]

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

 

[Jenbirdee]

Hello All. My family started with this chicken business like many people did at the onset of Covid with the “panic pullets”. Fortunately we had the location and opportunity with remote work/school situations to dedicate our time to raising a flock of eight chicks as well as building a safe coop and run for them in our backyard (with the help of every YouTube homestead channel and backyard Chicken channel ). Our four Golden Comets, two Cuckoo Marans, Sebright Bantam and Silkie gave us over two years of entertainment, companionship and dozens upon dozens of fresh eggs. When we made the decision to relocate to Florida, it was not possible to take our girls with us, but were fortunate to find wonderful neighbors to adopt them all and they are still thriving to this day. Now we’ve been in Florida for 8 months and we haven’t stopped talking about how much we miss our chickens. Obviously, eggs are not only ridiculously expensive, but not even the cage free eggs from the store come close to those from the ones laid in your own backyard! And I miss the sound of that egg song every morning! Or just taking a glass of wine out to the run and watching them do their thing. Sooo…I talked hubby into starting a Florida flock, since we have tons of space…and now we have 13 chicks in brooders in our garage! Two Light Brahmas, Four Easter Eggers, a Black Australorp, a RIR, a Gold Laced Wyandotte, a Buff and a Lavender Orpington and a buff and a blue Silkie we are building them a little chicken village in our backyard and I’m super excited to be a Chicken Mama again

Wow that’s great!! So happy for you. Welcome to BYC!