So glad to be here amongst other chicken keepers!
1) My daughter got chickens about a year ago and quail just after that. We are learning about raising these birds, making mistakes, having successes, and enjoying the ride. I’m a city kid, reluctantly, but you live where your parents raised you. I’ve always wanted acreage and animals. I still live in town, but chickens in the yard is quite nice for me.
2) I’ll ask my question about mature birds and new birds in another forum, but we have nine hens that are mature and 11 new hens.
3) We have… an Olive Egger, two Easter Eggers (I think), two Barred Plymouth Rock and two Rhode Island Red, an Australorp, and an Oprpington (I think that’s what they all are- my daughter knows more than me) amongst the mature hens. She recently got 3 Brahma, 3 more Rhode Island Reds (or maybe New Hampshire Reds)… and 5 more that I don’t really know (midwestern egg breeds)
4) I never realized how… pet… chickens could be. The young girls are still pretty shy, but there are two of the mature birds that know me and will come running when I am out (one pecks and bites at me for treats, the other wants to be picked up and wants first dibs on treats from my hand before the others scratch for them on the ground).
5) I am also a woodworker and turner. I hunt and fish.
6) I’m the very indulgent grandfather of one beautiful granddaughter. I have three adult children, one of whom lives at ‘home’ and it’s really her chickens and quail. She also has a dog.
From the nine mature birds we get 7-9 eggs daily and we just started getting quail eggs. I’m pretty heavily invested in the chickens and quail- far more than the eggs will ever be worth. I just enjoy having them, so I guess we’re in for the long haul.
1) My daughter got chickens about a year ago and quail just after that. We are learning about raising these birds, making mistakes, having successes, and enjoying the ride. I’m a city kid, reluctantly, but you live where your parents raised you. I’ve always wanted acreage and animals. I still live in town, but chickens in the yard is quite nice for me.
2) I’ll ask my question about mature birds and new birds in another forum, but we have nine hens that are mature and 11 new hens.
3) We have… an Olive Egger, two Easter Eggers (I think), two Barred Plymouth Rock and two Rhode Island Red, an Australorp, and an Oprpington (I think that’s what they all are- my daughter knows more than me) amongst the mature hens. She recently got 3 Brahma, 3 more Rhode Island Reds (or maybe New Hampshire Reds)… and 5 more that I don’t really know (midwestern egg breeds)
4) I never realized how… pet… chickens could be. The young girls are still pretty shy, but there are two of the mature birds that know me and will come running when I am out (one pecks and bites at me for treats, the other wants to be picked up and wants first dibs on treats from my hand before the others scratch for them on the ground).
5) I am also a woodworker and turner. I hunt and fish.
6) I’m the very indulgent grandfather of one beautiful granddaughter. I have three adult children, one of whom lives at ‘home’ and it’s really her chickens and quail. She also has a dog.
From the nine mature birds we get 7-9 eggs daily and we just started getting quail eggs. I’m pretty heavily invested in the chickens and quail- far more than the eggs will ever be worth. I just enjoy having them, so I guess we’re in for the long haul.
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