Our first backyard chickens..

[CuteHippieChic]

Bantam mix and my daughter...

 

[GlassOnion]

It is very adorable I could never ignorantly support the commercial poultry industry cause of faces like those

 

[CuteHippieChic]

It really does.. Looking at this little chick and watching my daughter and her interact.. The little chickens don't deserve factory farming =( Watched a video online one time of the horrors they live thru at those factories is heartbreaking!!!

 

[Cinnyluver]

So cute! I wish I could have chickens but we have a nasty raccoon problem here.

 

[Jally]

My daughter just got 6 peeps, but one passed away. We're looking forward to watching the others grow.

 

[Sunnyside]

I really wanted to do this! I researched, planned the coop, looked at chicks, the whole 9. In the end I didn't do it because I am scared of hawks! Do you have any advice on that end, I would really like to do this if I can keep the hawks away! I wanted to do free range by day and in the coop at night but I got too nervous

Your pics are great! I would frame those 2 pics of your daughter, she is absolutely adorable

 

[CuteHippieChic]

I really wanted to do this! I researched, planned the coop, looked at chicks, the whole 9. In the end I didn't do it because I am scared of hawks! Do you have any advice on that end, I would really like to do this if I can keep the hawks away! I wanted to do free range by day and in the coop at night but I got too nervous

Your pics are great! I would frame those 2 pics of your daughter, she is absolutely adorable

I think everyone should have backyard chickens.. This will be our first year with chickens =) I live in a tiny town in very rural Nebraska.. we have tons of predictor animals.. raccoon, hawks, vultures, and the occasional coyote. Our solution to this problem is building a large flight area out of chicken wire with a chicken house inside... we have a total of 6 chickens ( we bought more than we needed in anticipation of possible chick loss.. all are super healthy and doing great) I would think you wouldn't need to go super huge if you only bought a couple chickens.. the lady down the road has a movable coop small ish in size and her two chickens seem to be thriving!!! I think we can keep chickens but with hawks like you and I have the free range idea isn't in the cards...

Thanks for the kind words.. I defiantly should frame those pics of her..

 

[cosmolove]

Those photos are breathtaking! I love the two with your daughter in them!

Such cute little creatures. I eventually would like to own some, but every time I consider it I think back to the horror of having them at the horse farm I use to have my horse at. Poop everywhere!!! Literally once I stepped on like three wet piles at once and slid and almost fell in it!!

 

[Renae]

Great photos, they are both adorable.

 

[Shade]

Lovely pictures!

 

[Dot]

So sweet!

Dot

 

[Kathy N]

May I recommend: Raising BackYard Chickens, Build a Chicken Coop, Pictures of Breeds

 

[The Wanderer]

Very cute...I want a Black Silky Chicken...or 6!!