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2 contributions to Flock University
Hello!
We are back! Working on the classroom stuff now. Bear with me! Meanwhile, lets see some birds!
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@Stacy Tate LOL those are the big ones. I have another coop of all smaller ones. (That polish is in the other coop). It's all chickens the size of the polish. My big coop even had Jersey Giants, marans, RIRs and more.... :) They do seem to not understand the whole staying alive idea though.
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@Stacy Tate I'm sure I have Plymouth Rock and Wyandotte's though I'm sure my Jersey Giant was way bigger. LOL and yes! that description is so it. I have one that has something off with it and it has a hunch back. I named her Igor... She gets accidentally locked out at least one night a week and I have to do a walk of shame with her.
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I teach as well as have three kids - two flown and one that's a senior. I started raising chickens because my son hatched them in class and now am thinking I love watching the funny breeds getting the eggs, but trying to keep something alive that seriously seems to have a death wish in an area where everything would love to have them for dinner as well as hating cleaning the coops, needing to take water and food out every day (I have large containers too but something is eating the food, our outside hydrant broke so every day it is).... And my coops are a mess. I have two coops one nice walk in one and one large one that you have to hunch over and it's really long, so it's super annoying to clean. I frequently think if someone offered to buy it and the chickens in that one, it would be gone tomorrow. I do care about those chickens - especially my favorites, but ugh. At this point I'm regretting life choices. :) Including teaching middle school and coaching esports which means I never see day light and am then working on chicken stuff in the dark all the time.
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@Stacy Tate So as a funny story I grew up in the country with animals. As in my parents (we lived on a farm) thought they should have all the animals - everything from rabbits and chickens to buffalo and deer - and the regular animals too like dogs, cats, horse, ferrett and so much more.... LOL My husband is not an animal person so we were limited by him to the small animals my kids really wanted like hamsters and chinchillas. We ended up with cats finally because we had mice and my son who was afraid of animals finally agreed to the cats - for some reason he is really attached to them. Then my aunt died and we inherited a dog.... so there's that too. My husband got Jersey Giant eggs for my son's class to hatch, and I told him I get to keep them then. Apparently my husband thought they would dissect the eggs at different stages but ... private Catholic school and that wasn't happening. Now a few years later I have around 50 or so chickens, better not to count. I give some away when people lose some and need them, and I've passed some to friends as they wanted to start raising them. Ultimately I'd love to get down to where they all fit in my nicer walk in coop. If I had my way though there would also be horses, goats, and a highland cow. :)
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Karla Andrew
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Mom to 3 kids. I teach middle school science and was a computer developer for years. I sew, craft, and do all the things as well as raise chickens

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Joined Jan 4, 2026
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