Backyard Chickens - A community for people who keep chickens...in their back yards.

MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca to New Communities@lemmy.world – 104 points –

Do you have a back yard? Are there chickens in it? Then this community is for you!

I made the mistake of buying my wife "just four chickens" for mother's day a few years ago. That became 8. Then 20. Then 300. DON'T DO IT! IT'S A TRAP!

If you've already fallen into that trap and have questions, come on over. If you've been keeping chickens for years, come on over. If someone else's chickens are in your back yard and you don't know what to do, COME ON OVER!

We'll talk about chickens, we'll talk about eggs, we won't talk about which came first, we'll talk about feed, and care, and everything that goes along with keeping chickens. There will be pictures. There will be recipes. There will be...well...that probably just about covers it.

Anyway...

Backyard Chickens

!backyardchickens@lemmy.ca

Backyard Chickens

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EDIT

There have been a couple of questions, "What about my ducks?" and "What about my parrots?"

The Fediverse is small. There probably aren't enough people interested in each type of bird to start their own communities. For now, everyone is welcome. Turkeys, geese, quail, Guineas, fucking Emus. Come on in. Pet birds, too. We'll take everyone. The community will be focused on chickens but everyone is welcome. As the sub-communities grow they will naturally migrate (heh) to their own communities but we will have given them care and comfort while that happened.

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I don't own chickens, nor do I plan to in the future, but I'll subscribe anyway to see updates on how your chickens are doing and for all the egg photos.

We're happy to have you chicken and egg interested fediverse citizen.

I have parrots which are the same as chickens but more manipulative. Subscribing.

Parrots are welcome!

A lot of the psittacine medical knowledge base is actually from poultry research. They’re surprisingly similar anatomically!

One big difference is that hens lay eggs every day, that still blows my mind. A parrot risks death if they lay more than twice a year because they can’t recover enough dietary calcium quickly enough.

I updated the New Communities post, sidebar, and title of the group to welcome other types of birds while their own communities gather. We're happy to provide care and comfort for those communities until they do.

There's a community here for parrots and one for cockatiels specifically! I've added a link to Backyard Chickens to the sidebar of the parrots community. 🙂

Question...how do I write the link so that it works everywhere? I'm struggling with links that work for me but not for other people.

I've been doing my links like: [/c/cockatiel](https://lemmy.world/c/cockatiel) No idea if it works or not.

Someone click on those links and let me know if they work. They don't look right for me.

Only one that doesn't do anything for me is the bottom one. Android using chrome PWA

No good for me on memmy

Damnation! None of the three work? I tried to follow the instructions but it seems to change the links depending on which instance you're coming in from.

A band-mate and his wife raise chickens in their back yard. Will lurk with interest.

I don't have chooks anymore but joining to get my chicken fix vicariously, until I move and get some again of course!

I've been on reddit since the great digg migration ages ago and never saw anything about raising chickens. I buy 6 chickens and build a coop in my backyard and instantly see this community... the world is a strange place.

I guess I'm subscribing to learn about chicken facts now 🤷