Thanks for all your help!

[Sageblossom]

Hi! I've just started with chickens, although I've hatched and kept button quail for the last five years. I have hatched two batches of chickens from my incubator this year. I kept a bantam ameraucana/EE mix, a buff laced polish and a partridge silkie from my spring hatch. The rest are with a friend who lives out of town.

I've gotten totally hooked on silkies and my latest incubator hatch is all silkies. I have six fuzzy blue and black babies that are four days old.

I live in a small town in Northern Arizona. I am currently trying to change the chicken laws in our town so we underground chicken keepers here will be legal (and I've found there are many quiet backyard chicken people here.)

I have 4 children who have all recently left the nest, so I've been filling it with my chickens and dogs (a poodle/pom and a huge but sweet chihuahua.) I've also developed a passion for backyard gardening, even though I am in the hot desert and thought it wouldn't work. I'm trying for a winter garden this year.

I'm into natural healing. I'm a Weston A. Price Foundation chapter leader and a Be Young Essential Oil trainer and distributor.

I've used BackYardChickens.com many times as a reference, and decided that it was time I got off the sidelines and actually joined. Thank you all for all your helpful advice!!

 

[cpegram]

from Tennessee

 

[wekiva bird]

from south carolina/fla.

 

[ThePamperedPullet]

Welcome to BYC from The Pampered Pullets Farm in Central Florida

 

[justbugged]

From Western Washington State

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Hello from Tucson! Be sure to stop by the BYC AZ thread and say hello: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=31227&p=848

 

[3chimama]

I love Arizona! Welcome from Oregon.