Hello, I'm new to the group but I have found a lot of helpful information on the forum since starting our flock in 2022. I don't know why it took me so long to join 🤷🏻♀️. We have five hens three Rhode Island reds and two golden Wyandottes we lost one of our hens last year, not sure why but...
07.31.23
1st step to chicken math is acceptance.
Spent nineteen hours tearing this bad boy down in some pour ladies backyard. She brought us coffee and blueberries and smoothies. I severely underestimated what it took to disassemble a playhouse. Which is having me reconsider how this thing is...
Hi all. I recently joined the BYC community and I'm new to raising feather babies.
I got my first flock in August 4 2022.
I never thought I'd ever get them. Hubby and I bought our little Ranch Dec 2021. We had been in a busy city for the first 15 years of our relationship. We had plans to turn...
Good morning, everyone!
I’m a first time chick mama. I will be picking up my baby chicks (barred Plymouth rock, Easter egger, olive egger, and French copper maran) next week and I’m very excited! My dad had chickens so i have been around chickens before but I’ve never raised baby chicks. I love...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Five years ago, I was celebrating my birthday with my family, and my little sister had to be picked up from school. She was in her gardening class, and I went in to pick her up. When I walked into the garden, the first thing that...
Chicken friends!!!:wee I’m so EGGSTATIC! :celebrateMy blue girl laid her first egg for us today!!!:woot It’s so tiny! Will they get bigger as she continues to lay? Pictures attached! :fl
Hello, my name is Amanda and I’m a mother of 2 beautiful girls 18 and 6 and now a chicken mama as well :) I am having so much fun with these chicks, but boy do I feel like I have so much to learn to keep them healthy, happy and safe. I’m A family member gave me 4 chicks at 3 weeks old. Now they...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
-New to chickens, was recently gifted a flock of hens and roosters.
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
-9
(3) What breeds do you have?
-unsure so I’m looking to find out.
(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising...
I live in Alaska. Have lived here for 15 years. It's the most amazing place in the world. I feel like I'm on Vacation everyday(even in WINTER)
I'm married to a man who loves me and supports my crazy chicken notions ;)
I home school my kids all, 6 of them. Having chickens help us learn amazing...