New here! Just wanted to pop in and introduce myself. I just picked up my first chicks yesterday and I'm so excited to raise them! I've wanted backyard chicks for years, but my DH has always said 'No way!'. Well, last month we had a little baby girl, who died shortly after birth due to a terminal disorder called Potter's Syndrome (no kidneys). This occurred about 18 months after we had a son die from the same thing. Needless to say, my nurturing instinct has been on MAJOR overdrive for almost 2 years now, with no baby to nurture! Having more babies is off the table, as the risk is too great to lose another. We couldn't get another dog, as we learned the hard way that our current dog (who is getting on in years, has diabetes, and it mostly blind and we think partly deaf too) needs to be an only dog. But I convinced my DH is give me a try with chickens!
We picked up our 4 girls (i hope they're girls) yesterday and they're chirping away in the little brooder box I fashioned for them. We have a Black Sexlink (my DS has named 'Blackie" already), a Buff Orpington (because my DD desperately wanted a yellow chick--She named her Mely), a Barred Rock, and a Silverlaced Wyandotte. I'm hoping to get an Easter Egger too, but that might be a next year thing. I think the most chickens I can have for my property size is 6. Our family is down in the heart of Utah County.
Anyway, that's me in a nutshell, excited to meet people and pick your brains as we're learning!
-Krystal
This one, and most from the next one are my last ones from shipped eggs. The eggs im collecting now are from mine 
have great personalities. Easter eggers are a blast, and I can't get enough of my Wyandottes.
