Dakota8472 and Flock

My names Dakota and i am new here. I will go ahead and introduce myself and then go through the 7 questions for introduction. 33 yo campground maintenance worker. former navy enginemen, Love animals all my life. taken care of cows, lizards, cats dogs, snakes and turtles and fish. even a hedgehog. rats. and now chickens. lived all over the us and been to 16 country's in the service. pics of the chicks are from week 1.

(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?

I goit my first chickens this year. 23 march 6 of em. and got the last two of my flock 2 days later on that friday.

(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
8

(3) What breeds do you have?
to my knowledge which is limited I have 5 silkie bantams, 1 light braham pullet, and 2 other bantams i think are chocins?

(4) What are your favorite aspects of raising backyard chickens?
so far seeing them getting to trust me and develope, and hopefully to see them running around a little bit and living their best chicken lives later in the season.

(5) What are some of your other hobbies?
Gaming, reading, walking, camping, animals.

(6) Tell us about your family, your other pets, your occupation, or anything else you'd like to share.
Just me my dog my two rats (ones neeked) and our new chicken flock. I do maintence for campgrounds. we live in Michigan.

(7) Bonus: How did you find BYC, how long have you known about BYC, and what made you finally join our awesome community?
I first found this community when trying to identify the chickens i think are bantam chochins. through google.

Welcome to BYC!!

Thanks for sharing pictures of your chooks!

Welcome Fellow Michigander, & .

Welcome to Backyard Chickens. Great photos Dakota.

week 2 pics, I took these while i was cleaning out their brooder. they were so unhappy to be in the box for 5 minutes lol. but its a great time to get individual pics when putting them back.

Welcome to BackYard Chickens. The Best of Luck with your Chicks! And a Big Hello from Eastern Nebraska.

Hi, welcome to BYC! pleased to meet you and thanks for joining us.

Week 3. they are little rockets now...... starting to get really spunky and a pain in the butt to take pics of. they are calm until i stick a phone in their faces lol. Also we introduced some chick grit into the normal chick feed and then started some hand treats yesterday. they go bananas to get the meal worms out of the mix i got... still going light with that though. just enough to entertain them and make them like interacting with humans.

Welcome to BYC. So glad to meet you. Enjoy those birds! What great looking chicks. Thank you for sharing your pictures. What a pleasure to see them grow over time.