Good mornin' my fellow upstate New Yorkers! I am very new to this Backyard Chickens community. It really seems great, lots of like minded people & a great source of information!
My love for raising chickens started a little over two years ago, when a very dear friend of mine built me a coop & gave me five Rhode Island Red pullets and a cockerel. I currently have a flock of six (two Rhode Island Red hens, two red sex-link pullets, one white silkie pullet, & one white silkie cockerel) & five more birds that are currently in the process of being integrated into my flock (two Cuckoo Maran pullets & three crested, cream Legbar pullets.)
I have just relocated to Olive, NY, & I have been unpacking & painting for three weeks now! I know I moved to the right place when I wake up to the sun rising over the mountains & the sound of my neighbors roosters crowing in the distance, in almost all directions!!!