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  1. Summerfield

    First Flock in SoCal

    Hi BYC Community. Been reading so many of your posts getting started, so thank you for all the info I've received to far. Myself, my partner, and 12 yo son, have embarked on having a small flock in our suburban backyard and so far we're loving it. We have three 3.5-week old chicks currently in a...
  2. M

    Hello from Northern California

    Hi Everyone, My name is Mansoor and I live with my wife and our two children in Northern California, close to Sacramento region. We just completed our backyard coop little over a week ago, and currently have three hens. They are laying and it is great to walk back into the yard and collect...
  3. Kittys Coop

    New Member! Upstate NY

    Hi everyone! My name is Kate and I currently live in a rural area of Upstate NY. My husband Justin and I recently bought our first home in November of 2020 and decided to jump into the chicken life lol. We received barnyard mix hatching eggs from a local friend and sadly only three survived. We...
  4. P

    New member intro from PA

    Hello everyone! Just registered as a member! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes and we got our chickens in the spring of 2020. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 2 (3) What breeds do you have? Barred Rock and Australorp (4) What are your...
  5. Maddog_photog

    My favorite duck 🦆picture 📷

    This is my favorite duck picture because it illustrates the curiosity and cautiousness of my ducks beautifully. Do you see Waddles getting into trouble? Do you think she is the mastermind, or the lookout?
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  6. R

    City dweller with free-range backyard micro flock

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I raised chickens in rural Connecticut in the late 1980s, but stopped when I moved back to Chicago. I restarted the chicken obsession in 2017 when one of my daughter's school friends had baby chicks but had no idea how to care for...
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    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  7. Delp

    New to Backyard Chickens Website. Excited & Need Help/Opinion:) :)

    Hi Everyone! We brought home pullets 4 years ago and have enjoyed the experience without much drama or challenges. We've decided to grow the family and just brought home two little baby chicks and are quickly realizing, they need A LOT more specialized care than our pullets did! They are so dang...
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    • babies in the coop backyard barred rock chicks corid easter egger olive egger sick 2 weeks old
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    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  8. Xalthir

    Howdy!

    Hi! My name is Gabriel, but my online handle is Xalthir. I decided to just use the template since I didn't feel like doing it all from 'scratch'doyougetit. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am new to chickens, we've kept them for almost a year now but just...
  9. divineangel94

    HELP!!!!

    What does it mean if your hen is slow, barely eating, has a big butt, and poops watery green poop? She still chases treats, and hangs around everybody. And even pecks every once in a while. Sometimes she will just sleep too. She even still cleans her own feathers.
  10. H

    Best Fox Deterrent..Fox Den in back yard!!

    Stumbled upon a burrow in our backyard a little bit ago and this morning saw a beautiful but huge fox wandering around. It appears to be healthy so I’m not worried about that. What I am worried about is our chickens! Does anyone have any advice on deterring fox away from coops? Anything that’s...
  11. TEaCup Acres

    Hi from Plant City, Florida!

    I am the chicken lady/goat momma of a bunch of little boys on TEaCup Acres. We have had chickens for a few years now, started with Japanese Bantam and now have a wide variety of backyard layers for eggs around the rainbow! We still need to get a pinkish egg layer and a dark brown egg layer...
  12. Ariggs29

    I’m a new mother hen 🐣

    Hey everyone! I got my bantam chicks in the mail on March 20th (hatched March 18th) this is my first time ever caring for chickens and it started out quite rocky (lost 4 of the 6 one right after the other) But I have 2 very tough and spunky chicks right now that I adore. I purchase “purebred...
  13. L

    New chicken parents

    Hi everyone, Me and my boyfriend decided to get chickens to reduce the number of eggs we buy from supermarkets. We built a chicken coop and got our first ever chicken. Everything was working just fine with our new baby (we named her Elena, 1 y/o) so we decided to get 2 baby chickens that would...
  14. RiversideChick

    Urban Coop Design - Tacoma, WA

    Just finished our urban coop for our 8 hens. Designed by my husband. Includes padlocks on the run door, nesting boxes and large door on the coop (for cleaning it out). There are 2 exterior nesting boxes. The smaller door for the hens to enter and exit their coop remains open for now - we buried...
  15. Bert96746

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  16. RidleysRoostingLadies2020

    Beginning a Backyard Layers Coop

    Hey! My name is Breanna, I'm 27 years old. I grew up and still live in a small country town in Northwest Georgia. Between four kids and school, I decided that I also needed a hobby. This hobby just so happened to involve my husband dumping his time and money into building a brooder for a small...
  17. jjcalvi1972

    Excited to raise chickens for the first time!

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? We are new to chickens! Want to learn about the process first, but aiming to add 2 chicks to our family this weekend (7/27) and later transition them to our outside coop (already here in our Eureka rental). (2) How many chickens do...
  18. B

    Hello from Texas

    Hi I have quite a busy little house. We homeschool our 4 boys, and have a small flock of birds we got last spring (2018). We originally got 7 birds, but 2 were bantam roos that went to a friend's petting zoo. We enjoyed the 5, we until November when we got a new dog. She started out totally ok...
  19. LilMissChick

    Brand new and learning!

    Good morning everyone! Thanks for the add. I am soon to be a brand new chicken mum. My fiancée and I live in an urban area in Greater Victoria on Vancouver island, BC, Canada. We are going to be setting up our back yard with a coop and large pen this spring. We want our hens to have access...
  20. J

    Introductions

    Hello, I'm fairly new to the backyard chicken flock club. Before making any purchases I was sure to do quite a bit of research, but research isn't the same as experience. I'm hoping I'll be able to find out more information from people with first-hand experiences! At the moment there's three...
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