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Hello everyone, happy to be here. I am a new daddy to 5 Rouen ducklings, just over a week old. I hope to chat with you about raising healthy and happy fowl!

Howdy!! I’m rhyme, and I’m new to poultry but I recently got some little goobers of my own! Got the coop all ready, but they’re all teeny so we’re waiting on em to grow before heading them out there. Got a baby blue slate Turkey named Winnie, an absolute cuddlebug who is genuinely the sweetest...

Hey everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Lauren. Me and my husband are both 28, live in central Alabama and have been married almost 5 years (together total of 10) and have 2 dogs, 2 cats, and 4 ball pythons (also looking to get a leopard gecko and blue tongue skink shortly). We...

Hello all! Another future chicken crazy person here! I’ve lurked for a while, but I decided to join so I could interact with all of the fun posts and people. I spent my childhood on a small farm (sadly without chickens) then wound up in suburbia for about fifteen years. Spouse and I finally...

INTRODUCTION [Willowtr33] 1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am fairly new to raising chickens of my own but have since 2022 owned 5 Barred Rock Hens (Plymouth Rock Chicken) and 2 Easter Egger Roosters (that's a story within itself...lol). (2) How many chickens do...

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I first got chickens after my partner and I moved to a farm where there were 2 chickens previously. So we started learning about them as well as taking care of them. I also recently got 6 true blue whiting chicks for my birthday on...

Hi! I’m vanessa and this is just a small introduction! My family first got chickens in 2015! I live in the city of Cleveland so we aren’t allowed to have too many but we have continuously had about 10-20 since! At the moment I have 8 chickens! We still have yet to figure out 2 of our 4 breeds...

I wanted to go ahead and introduce myself as I am getting back into the chicken rearing and community is everything! Hi, I'm Jade! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes and no, lol! I got my first 2 chickens when I was 5 in 2004, but I never had any chickens after...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I’ve just started raising chickens with my family this year, so I am a complete newbie to all of this. I got my chickens around May or so as chicks, so they are still very young. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Right...

Hello. I've had this forum bookmarked for some time, reading thru. We are signing the papers today on the new-to-us 3 acres with house. He grew up with animals/farming stuff, I did NOT. I grew up fly fishing, foraging, tracking animals, shooting, cleaning all the above, but only on vacations...

Hello! I’m new to BYC. I live in Tehachapi CA and have a small family farm with 9 chickens, 4 ducks, 7 goats, 4 dogs, 2 cats, 2 Guinea pigs and 4 humans - 6 if you count my husband and myself 🤪 I’m trying to convince my husband to let me get all the farm animals but I have to ease him into it...

1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I’m somewhat new. In my late teens my mom and I had tons of chickens on her farm. But I’m new to the idea of backyard chickens of my own. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? I have two hens! 1 partridge silkie and 1 Mille...

Hey friends! We have our adult Cayugas set up in the backyard. After circumstances led to this, we had only one duckling to hatch out of our last incubation. This happy new Cayuga is in a smaller pen within the adults pen, in an effort to get them accustomed to each other... it has been in that...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Yes im new to chickens i got my first five on may 15 2021 unfortunately we lost one later that year. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? 7 we got 3 chicks yesterday they are so cutee (3) What breeds do you have? The 4 are...

I saw a post about new member introduction questions. Here goes. 1. I am sort of new to chickens. My mother had chickens, but she was very country about it.... Where I used to live, if livestock were sick, they got put down, pretty much everyone did that. I adopted several chickens sort of by...

Hi! My family and I are about to embark on this new adventure! This was my husband's and young daughter's idea; I'm just around for the eggs. (Or so I say. I have a feeling I'm going to get sucked in, too.) We live in a small town in central Kansas with two dogs and a cat, all indoors. Chickens...

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? If I remember correctly I first got chickens in 2019, but I only got purebred chickens in April 2021. (2) How many chickens do you have right now? Right now I have 3 isabella bantam brahmas and 4 black silkie roos. (3) What...

Hello, newbie here! I am hatching some chicken eggs (4) for the first time, it is day 21 but there's no pipping or movement yet as far as I can see. I gently candelled them quickly and they have their air pockets at the top of the egg and veins look good - so I'm hoping they are gonna start...

Hello, everyone. I'm a new member to the Backyard Chickens. I have two silkies and an ISA brown hen (she's in my dad's flock, but I've claimed her as my own 🙂). I'm quite new to owning chickens, but my dad has had ISA browns for as long as I can remember.

Hello all, I’m a newbie in the community of chickens. I’ve had two hens for about a year now but I got them as adults and now I’ve recently added 3 Wyandotte pullets who are 2 months and 2 straight run Splash Ameraucana’s who are almost a month and a half. So it’s a mystery to see if I got two...