Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

[Sally PB]

We have about half field, half woods. We're on a river, and by the river it's pretty marshy, so we can get lots of mosquitoes.

 

[miss heny]

No swamps here thankfully, but ground does get spongy in the rain season

Coop front wise me and dad should finish the hoopcoop within the next five days he's off. BF is going to visit his dad at their ranch to talk about the breeding pen designs, it got shifted from 3 4×12 to 6 4×6 and into a barn concept

 

[Jester57]

We live in the heart of darkest suburbia. You guys are lucky.

 

[miss heny]

We live in the heart of darkest suburbia. You guys are lucky.

The land is nice

Would kill for it to not be in Mississippi but gotta pick and choose. I can't legally drive so that one of the cons, blessed with supportive parents and life partner.

 

[miss heny]

 

[Sally PB]

I am the luckiest person I know.

I used to work with a guy who was Asian (not sure what nationality) who claimed he could tell things about people by knowing their birthdate, and knowing them. He told us about one woman he knew. He'd told her that she should not get pregnant and give birth during a certain year, because her and her baby would have incompatible years, and the child would not survive. She had the baby, and he told her she must give it up for adoption, for its sake. She didn't believe him, kept the baby, and it died.

We just nodded, said, umhm, and kept working. There was a pause in the conversation. Then he looked over his work station at me and said, "Sally, you will be rich." And that was all he said.

I don't know if I'm rich, but my wealth.... I'm am very wealthy in many ways.

 

[MysteryChicken]

We have about half field, half woods. We're on a river, and by the river it's pretty marshy, so we can get lots of mosquitoes.

We have a creek, that runs through our property. Occasionally we get fish swimming through.

Mosquitoes are pretty bad here too.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Technically the farm name is currently Pixie Hollar.

However for like our goats we have for their papers Purple Pixie

So trying to think of something for the birds similar. Both me and my BF are biracial of Hispanic mix so toying with some Spanish.

Aw, I love that! I've dabbled in naming my little farm here, but haven't really 100% settled on anything. My grandparents farmed the other end of this property (and ran pigs through this end because it's heavily wooded so couldn't really be planted) and called their farm Windy Hill Farm. Well, my uncle inherited that end of the property and isn't a farmer, and my dad inherited this end, plus we're not really on a hill back here, we're in a woods, so I was thinking maybe Windy Woods Farm would be nice as a callback to my grandparents.

I have 7 chickens. Will bump up to 11 when I chicks in 82 days!

We totally lucked out when we got our place. House with 8 acres. Neighbor sold us another 12, and then we got another 5, so we have 25 acres. We are the luckiest people I know.

You've got lots of room for more chickens, though. What breeds are you getting in 82 days?

Our 10 acres are split, half woods, & half not.

Pretty much all woods here, except for the other end of the property that's regrowing into woods. This is the view off the back deck late spring:

And a panorama from early spring, deep in the woods:

This area is the other end of the property and was planted with crops a long time ago which is why it's not as wooded, but then in my childhood we planted a bunch of trees and have been letting it go back to nature. Actually, it's been so long since I took this picture that there are more trees and bushes in this area now!

I absolutely love it here, really can't complain much. But like I said, hard to build much.

We have a swamp, in our woods.

Dad's replacing the old deer blind, so I can have it, & turn it into a coop.

Always exciting to have a new coop in the works! I've got a pen planned to split one of my coops into two for breeding purposes, but some bills came up so I've had to postpone that for now.

 

[miss heny]

For USDA farm ID you need a farm name, and in the show world a farm name is less personal than having your name attached. Specially if someone shows a animal with your farm name but it's in poor condition.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Aw, I love that! I've dabbled in naming my little farm here, but haven't really 100% settled on anything. My grandparents farmed the other end of this property (and ran pigs through this end because it's heavily wooded so couldn't really be planted) and called their farm Windy Hill Farm. Well, my uncle inherited that end of the property and isn't a farmer, and my dad inherited this end, plus we're not really on a hill back here, we're in a woods, so I was thinking maybe Windy Woods Farm would be nice as a callback to my grandparents.




You've got lots of room for more chickens, though. What breeds are you getting in 82 days?




Pretty much all woods here, except for the other end of the property that's regrowing into woods. This is the view off the back deck late spring:

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And a panorama from early spring, deep in the woods:

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This area is the other end of the property and was planted with crops a long time ago which is why it's not as wooded, but then in my childhood we planted a bunch of trees and have been letting it go back to nature. Actually, it's been so long since I took this picture that there are more trees and bushes in this area now!

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I absolutely love it here, really can't complain much. But like I said, hard to build much.




Always exciting to have a new coop in the works! I've got a pen planned to split one of my coops into two for breeding purposes, but some bills came up so I've had to postpone that for now.

Just debating whether I want it strictly for my OEGBs, or somehow divide it into a breeding coop.