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New and Learning!

Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2022 7:15 pm
by chix4days
Hello!

We're new here - we have 25 chickens in total - and one of them lives in the house with us!

About 7 years ago my wife and I started to look into becoming more self sufficient. We started doing research and house hunting, and moved out of downtown Ottawa to outside Smiths Falls going on 4 years ago. In the fall of 2019, we decided to take the plunge and plan to start our flock in the spring. We joked the entire time as we built the coop that everyone would think we got into chickens just because of the pandemic - but that was not the reason, but it did perhaps play a role in the infamous 'chicken math' :)

We have:
  • 5x Red sexlink
  • 6x Azure Blue
  • 2x Columbian Rocks
  • 1x Pencilled Rock
  • 2x White Rocks
  • 3x Blue-laced Red Wyandotte (all 3 are roosters)
  • 2x Cuckoo Maline
  • 4x Midnight Majestry Marans

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:00 am
by kenya
3 Blue laced red roosters! How did you end up with 3 rooster? Very pretty birds though.

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 8:34 am
by Ontario Chick
:welcome:
Nice to have some new blood in the neighborhood :coolguy:

We got out of chickens just after the pandemic started after 25 years, great hobby great fun, you can't replace the "home grown" eggs.
Will have many (scrubbed clean) feeders, waterers, heat lamps and whatever else chicken related, available in the spring if you need anything :chicks:

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:06 am
by Killerbunny
Hello and welcome. We are near Brockville.

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 10:54 am
by Ontario Chick
there you go, @chix4days
@Killerbunny can set you up with some hens to go with all those roosters. :)

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 11:27 am
by Killerbunny
Only the 2 COlumbians left from those!

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:12 pm
by Ontario Chick
I was thinking more along the Performance poultry order :)

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:58 pm
by KimChick
Hi and welcome to PTO! We are in between Westport and Newboro.

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:22 pm
by chix4days
kenya wrote:
Fri Feb 18, 2022 12:00 am
3 Blue laced red roosters! How did you end up with 3 rooster? Very pretty birds though.
We wanted to add a rooster to our flock, and a pair was available - they grew up together and inseparable so we took them in. We were also given a bonus Wyandotte pullet who turned out not to be a pullet :)

Re: New and Learning!

Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2022 3:27 pm
by chix4days
Thanks for the warm welcome :)