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Welocme to BYC!!! It is an aweosme forum (the BEST in the world) and has a great comminity!!! Hope you have a great time and learn A LOT!
 
Welcome to BYC! Please make yourself at home and we are here to help.
 
HI Tom, Enjoy and be sure to take lots of pics when they are so young...they grow up too fast! Welcome to the best resource for all things chicken! I find I can literally spend hours on this site hopping around and reading how to do better for the girls. :) We are empty nesters too although I am still working but we do love to come home and settle down and relax with the girls and our fur faced kiddos.
 
Welcome! You are not too far from us out in Mesa. Best of luck with you flock.
 
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Hope you join in with us on the Arizona thread.. We just had a BYC seed exchange.. Keep your eye's on that Fourm, we will be hosting another potluck, chicken talk, seed exchange soon..
 
Tom and Jeanne said:
When we were kids in upstate NY and R.I. respectively, my wife and I had families with backyard chickens for eggs and meat. 50 years later and grandparents now, we are getting back to our roots, but have forgotten most of our "chicken lore," except that I always knew what it meant to "run around like a chicken with it's head cut off" (making a bloody mess!). And Jeanne's mom knew where the phrase "a chicken in every pot" came from, raising kids and backyard chickens in the Great Depression. We are getting close to being empty-nesters, and we are wanting to live more simply and providently, so we have just brought six chicks for egg laying assuage our "nest withdrawal"--a surprising new activity in my recent retirement. I am training them to come back to the coop from free-ranging by shaking a can of wheat berries and throwing them some treats. (I remember how hard it was to chase and catch chickens when I was a kid, and I don't want to look like an old fool any more than I have to!) I would love to train them to eat the yummy aphids off our garden greens without eating the greens, but I may be asking for too much restraint. Our teenager has already made friends with them and they trust her the most, and our young grandkids are fascinated. We had fun building a coop (we will learn from our design mistakes), and our chicks are about 6 weeks old. We have 2 black sex-link chicks, 2 R.I. Reds, and 2 white (Leghorns?), supposedly all good egg layers who can take the heat, of which we have more than our fair share than our Yankee friends. We have several friends in the neighborhood who successfully raise egg layers, so we are learning from them, but we can only pester them so much. I expect we will be reading and asking lots of questions. This is gonna be fun...right? Tom [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR] [COLOR=B42000] [/COLOR]
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We will be having a bonfire with chicken folk when it cools down. If you guys are up for talking chicken private message us and we will let you know when we do a potluck .. Here is the Az thread.. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/31227/arizona-chickens
 

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