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 Name: Rachel Hurd Anger
From: Louisville, Kentucky
Profession: Freelance writer
Website: hurdanger.com
Poultry you currently own?:
An Australorp, a Red Star, a Partridge Plymouth Rock, a Silver Laced Wyandotte, and a Buff Laced Polish, presumably all female, but we suspect the Polish may be a rooster.
About you: I'm a freelance writer and stay-at-home mom who's obsessed with sustainability, food politics, and cooking from scratch as often as possible. I unexpectedly fell in love with chickens on some random day, researched obsessively for more than a year, and when my husband announced that he was putting up a privacy fence, I agreed under the strict condition that I would get my chickens. Now, we await our first egg.
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 Name: Pam Baker
From: Dummerston, Vermont
Profession: Nurse
Website: homesteadexperiment.blogspot.com
Poultry you currently own?:
11 chickens: Six New Hampshire Red including one rooster and five Barred Rocks.
About you: Married to a wonderful man named Bill, and we are two ex-suburbanites stumbling around the Vermont countryside learning to live a sustainable life. We are the proud pet parents of 8 pets: 5 rescued dogs and 3 cats. We are enjoying the homesteading life and look forward to each season as a fantastic journey.
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 Name: Jennifer Burcke
From: Dover, New Hampshire
Profession: Writer
Website: 1840 Farm
Poultry you currently own?:
Seven Hens: Australorps, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Golden Laced Wyandottes, Silver Laced Wyandottes
About you: I grew up in Shawnee, Kansas. My family moved to New Hampshire more than seven years ago. For the past five years, we have lived on a farm that dates back to the 1840s. Each year, we find ourselves expanding the garden and growing more of our own food. This fall, we added a small flock of heritage breed hens to our farm and built our own chicken coop. We're looking forward to having fresh eggs right outside our farmhouse door. Let the chicken keeping experiment begin!
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 Name: Crystal C
From: Central Florida
Profession: Homesteader and Homeschooler
Website: www.FiveAcreProject.Blogspot.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Four Americauna Pullets
About you: I'm a homesteading, homeschooling mom to five kids. We currently live in the city but will be moving to five acres in Northern Florida and signficantly expanding our poultry farming.
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 Name: Candice
From: Michigan
Profession: Medical
Poultry you currently own?:
Blue Slate and Bourbon Red turkeys, Black Australorps, Buff Orphingtons, Rhode Island Reds, and Lavender Araucanas.
About you: Country raised by a City mother who thought a cat was livestock, I didn't get into the idea of farming until the mid 70's when I discovered The Mother Earth News and Carla Emery. Trapped on a small lot in town, I joined a co-op, baked my own bread, gardened and canned and/or dried everything I could get my hands on. In the mid 80's we moved unto a few acres and the fun began! 25 years later, my poor husband still wonders what happened - he says I should have married a farmer! It's really not that bad - we're down to "just" poultry and hair sheep!
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 Name: Meredith Chilson "BakerValleyGirl"
From: Belmont, New York
Profession: Retired teacher turned bag lady (I sew totes and purses)
Poultry you currently own?:
Seven Hens: Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, a Silky or maybe two (unsure of parents!), an Aracuna and a PoppySeed.
About you: I'm a country girl from birth, married with 2 daughters,7 grandchildren, 2 dogs and 21 chickens. I grew up on a dairy farm; my mom kept a big flock of White Leghorns and sold eggs locally.
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 Name: Cortney Cogswell
From: Silsbee, Texas
Profession: Housewife
Poultry you currently own?:
36 Rhode Island Reds
About you: Even though I grew up in the Pineywoods Region of Texas I never saw myself as the "country life" type. Now fastfoward more than a few years, a country husband, and that's excatly the kind of life I want.
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 Name: Claire Culver, Chief Chickenthusiast
From: West Tennessee
Profession: Egg Farmer and Budding Permaculturalist
Website: www.clucknneigh.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Seven Hens: Lavender, French and Pied Guineas.
Americaunas - the famous layers of green and blue eggs.
Barred Hollands - rarest of all American breeds.
Buckeyes - the only breed developed by a woman, and sporting its own unique vocalization. It can roar like a dinosaur. If that's not a cool reason to own one, I don't know what is!
Buff Orpingtons - a very friendly, pet-like chicken. It's extremely amusing to watch them drop what their doing a run to me when they see me coming. Were they not so waddly and cute it would look like a scene from Hitchcock's The Birds.
Several "mystery chickens" due to an impulse purchase from a mislabeled Tractor Supply crate-o-chicks.
About you: A recently converted city gal but long-time environmentalist, I am a founding member of the MidSouth Permaculture Collective and the MidSouth Permaculture Institute. I live with my husband in West Tennessee on a small farm we are together converting to permaculture. I offer eggs from my pasture raised heritage breed poultry to the community with an interesting twist: Following the philosophy of karma, I offer eggs to anyone regardless of their ability to pay. Those who can pay more do so because they know their money goes toward molding Cluck-n-Neigh Farm into the first permaculture learning center in the MidSouth.
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 Name: Joy Currie
From: Ovid, Michigan
Profession: Teacher
Poultry you currently own?:
Silver-laced and Golden-laced Wyandotte
About you: My husband and I are the third generation to live on the family farm. Our goal is to continually be moving toward a more self-sufficient life.
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 Name: Stacia Equi
From: Eastern Pennsylvania
Profession: I am an unemployed helicopter pilot and former milliner (hat maker) for the entertainment industry (film, TV, commercials)
Website: The Purple Suede Tool Belt
Poultry you currently own?:
Chickens: Barred Rocks, Aracaunas and Sal-links
About you: I'm a mostly city girl who's moved to a slightly more rural area, and I'm trying to embrace all the things that rural living can offer. One of those things is the opportunity to grow my own food and raise my own chickens. Although I have many pets and am very good with animals, birds in general do not like me. My husband has deemed my raising of chickens: The Great Chicken Experiment.
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 Name: Nancy Farrell
From: Altona, New York
Profession: Biochemist currently seeking employment
Website: www.sasimeadows.webs.com
Poultry you currently own?: We have ducks, chickens and guinea fowl.
About you: My husband and I have a small farm in upstate New York, way upstate by the Canadian border. We have two children, dogs, cats, goats, chickens, ducks, guinea fowl and angora rabbits. I enjoy photography and love to take pictures of our animals. I love learning new things.
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 Name: Kimberly Furry
From: North-Central Pennsylvania
Profession: bookkeeper, teacher, stay-at-home mom
Website: www.gaiagardens.biz
Poultry you currently own?: Delawares, Silkies
Website: www.gaiagardens.biz
About you: I am the mother of two darling little girls Ara (six) and Nora (three) living in rural north-central Pennsylvania with my husband Derek. I love that my daughter, Ara has inspired us to start this journey into the world of "hendom" and am stoked to share our journey with our friends, family and other families seeking to raise backyard chickens!
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 Name: Eric Guel
From: Waco, Texas
Profession: Manager for a handcrafted walking stick company / Freelance Journalist / Freelance Photojournalist
Website: brazos-walking-sticks.com - photowaco.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Seven Delaware hens. One Delaware rooster. Two Wyandotte bantam hens. One Wyandotte bantam rooster. Four barnies. Three Muscovy duck hens. One Muscovy duck drake
About you: I'm a city boy who's gone country! My wife and I started raising chickens in July 2009, shortly after we moved out to our little 2-acre homestead in beautiful central Texas. It's been a learning experience, but certainly a fun ride. I enjoy reading, writing, photojournalism, chess, theology ... and poultry!
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 Name: Chuck Hagi
From: LaValle, Wisconsin
Profession: Restaurant Manager
Poultry you currently own?:
Chickens: Milli Fleur D Uccle, Cochin, Sultan, Wyandotte, Black Rosecomb, Japanese, Silkie, Barred Plymouth Rock
About you: I am married and a father of two. I enjoy chickens for a variety of reasons. Not only do I keep them for meat and eggs, but also enjoy chickens as pets. Chicken keeping has fit in well with my other hobbies of gardening and woodworking. I have designed and built portable chicken coops. I hope you enjoy reading about my chicken-keeping experiences.
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 Name: Sandi Hopper
From: West Union, West Virginia
Profession: Farmer
Poultry you currently own?:
Chickens, ducks, turkeys and guineas
About you: I raise poultry for eggs, comfort, and to supply locals with their own laying flocks. I have been at this almost a decade and have made many great feathered friends. I wouldn't trade this life for any other suburban, city, or office life I've led before.
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 Name: Carmen C Horton
From: Homeland Farm - Bridgton, Maine
Profession: Farmgal
Poultry you currently own?:
Seven Hens: Turkeys, pullets and laying hens
About you: I live on a fifth generation family farm in Maine. We have always owned poultry and cannot imagine not having our own supply of fresh eggs and meat. I hope to pass the farm onto another generation of our family and hope they enjoy country life and living here as much as I have.
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 Name: SE Johnson
From: Bath, Michigan
Profession: Retired
Website: www.sasimeadows.webs.com
Poultry you currently own?: I am the proud owner ( not sure who owns whom) of 9 ISA Brown hens and 9 Narragansett turkeys
About you: took a medical retirement from General Motors back in 2002. I had spent most of my life in the construction and environmental engineering field. I thought raising a few chickens would give me something to do. Ok, I was very naïve. >
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 Name: Margaret E. Kellogg
From: Fairbanks, Alaska
Profession: Office Manager at Health Center, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Website:  
Poultry you currently own?: Chickens: Polish, Cochin, Silkies, Barred Rock, Dominque, Orpinton, Americana, Black Alstralope, Rhode Island Red, Asst. Bantams, Red Sex Link, Lt. Brahma and 4 Rooster so far
Ducks: Cayuga, Runners, Swedish, Peking, Campbell, Rouhen
Geese: Embden
Turkeys: Two Bronze hens- (looking for love from Tom might have to search for one on Craig's List)
About you: I was born and raised in central New York in the country. Until I was about 6, I lived on a dairy farm. We moved to Alaska because my husband was in the Air Force. We fell in love with the area and raised our two children here. We recently moved to a location with more land and freedom, so I got a few chickens and then we grew. I love gardening and nature and Alaska is such a wonderful place to be for both.
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Name: Jennifer Kendall
From: Cary, North Carolina
Profession: Marketing and Communications Manager for the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
Website: www.albc-usa.org
Poultry you currently own?:
None, but would like to have nankins if my city opens the chicken ban.
About you: Carolina born and bred, I reside in Raleigh, North Carolina, with my husband, Basset Hound and Orange Tabby, and dream one day of owning some of these heritage breeds.
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 Name: Patsy Melton
From: Rural West Tennessee
Profession: Accountant
Website: www.contraryoldwoman.blogspot.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Silkies: Two hens and a rooster
About you: I love reading blogs about farming, animals, food preservation and survival skills. I'm on a journey to learn all I can about microfarming, chickens, growing and preserving food, and becoming and living an entirely different life than I've lived for the last 30+ years.
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 Name: Taylor Miller
From: Lawrence, Kansas
Profession: Editor/Graphic Designer/Photographer
Poultry you currently own?:
Quail: Coturnix quail of the Japanese, Tuxedo and Golden variety
About you: Growing up on a farm in rural Northwestern Kansas, I made it my goal to get as far away from the farming life as possible. It wasn't until a few years after living in the city, that I realized, "You can take the boy off the farm, but you can never take the farm out of the boy." Since then, I've been enjoying raising chickens and quails and farming a small, modest little garden all in my beautiful backyard.
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 Name: Kathy Morash
From: Wallace River, Nova Scotia, Canada
Profession: Real Estate Broker
Poultry you currently own?:
None! Building coop now.
About you: My husband (60) and I (55) live on just over two wooded acres on the Wallace River in northern Nova Scotia, Canada, Zone 5b. We are both self-employed and trying to work less and garden more! We grow a lot of our own food, can and freeze all summer. And, we are looking forward to retirement someday soon. At this point we are building our chicken house and are very excited about becoming poultry people!
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 Name: Bil Morrill
From: Cottage Grove, Oregon
Profession: Career Counselor/Chicken and Alpaca Farmer
Website: Silk Creek Farm
Poultry you currently own?:
Chickens, quails and turkeys.
About you: I have been farming for about two and a half years. We raise layer chickens (currently have around 60) and each summer we raise meat chickens. We also raise quail, turkeys and alpacas.
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 Name: Rebecca Nickols
From: Strafford, Missouri
Profession: ICU Nurse
Website: rebeccanickols.blogspot.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Four Buff Orpington Chickens
About you: Since becoming a Master Gardener in 2005, my love of gardening and anything related has steadily grown. The whole chicken experience has been surprisingly easy and very enjoyable! It's also a great example to my teenage daughters — that the freshest, most organic food is what you raise and grow yourself...
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 Name: Jessica Nyquist
From: Gladstone, Michigan
Profession: Homeschooling Mom, Homesteader, Domestic Diva
Poultry you currently own?:
Six Rhode Island Red Laying Hens
About you: I'm a homeschooling, homesteading mom of three beautiful children. My wonderful husband and I are living the dream and carving out a life of our own in the rural upper peninsula of Michigan, and we wouldn't have it any other way!
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 Name: Barbara Palermo
From: Salem, Oregon
Profession: I am an Animal Health Technician, working mostly with sheep, goats and chickens.
Website: www.Chicken-Revolution.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Four hens (two white leghorns named Florence and Siena, and two black sexlinks named Shaniqua and Shaneyney).
About you: My free time is spent working as leader of the grassroots organization, Chickens In The Yard (C.I.T.Y.), where I continue to promote backyard chickens and fight for the right of city residents here, and across the country, to produce their own food.
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 Name: Nancy Rundel
From: Levant, Kansas
Profession: High School English/Speech/Drama teacher
Poultry you currently own?:
Chickens: Columbian Wyandotte, Cochins, Buff Orpington, Delaware Red, California Whites. Ducks: Indian Runners
About you: Me? Well, I'm basically a straight-forward person and if you ask me what I think - be ready for me to tell you. I enjoy reading, writing, traveling and gardening. Teaching high schoolers keeps me young and very busy. It also keeps me "hip" because I know the words to some of their songs.
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 Name: Jennifer Sartell
From: Clarkston, Michigan
Profession: Artist: Fiber Art, Pastel Portraits, Photography
Website: www.ironoakfarm.blogspot.com — www.jenniferannmurphy.etsy.com
Poultry you currently own?:
The majority of my flock includes Blue Laced Red Wyandottes, French Black Copper Marans, Lavender Orphingtons, Cochins and Cochin Frizzles, Araucanas, some Coronation Sussex and Light Sussex (not so sure about the Sussex's breed lines at this point) And a mix of others; several Polish, Crevecoeur, Cuckoo Marans, Buff Orphington, Black Orphington, Speckled Sussex, Silkie, Leghorn, Rhode Island Red, Isa Brown, Pencil Laced Wyandotte, and a Dominique. I think that's everybody. We have a total of 50, as we just took in a few more Araucanas last night that were in need of a home.
About you: I currently run our small hobby farm which consists of a plethora of chickens, Angora Goats and Angora Rabbits. I've raised chickens for about 15 years and am currently focused on raising some of the more rare chickens for breed improvement. I would really like to focus some attention to The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's "Critical or Threatened List". I am also obsessed with the care I give my chickens, I am forever researching how to improve their health and well being. I'm really proud of my flock and want to continue raising healthy, happy, beautiful birds. I also love photography, and I am blessed to have a constant source of subject matter in the flock in my backyard.
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 Name: Karla T
From: The foothills of the Tug Hill Plateau, New York
Profession: Business Analyst
Website: City Girl Bought the Farm
Poultry you currently own?:
Buff Orpingtons, Rhode Island Reds, Partridge Cochin, Easter Eggers, Wyandottes and a single Japanese Bantam
About you: I'm originally a city girl who has been transplanted to the country, and I'm loving it (usually)! I'm a mom to three great kids, and I've been married to a wonderful man for 20 years. We grow vegetables and herbs and raise chickens for their eggs and entertainment value. I also have a Jack Russell Terrier and a guinea pig.
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 Name: Michelle Tullis
From: Bend, Oregon
Profession: Photographer
Website: bendhens.tumblr.com -- www.tullisphoto.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Six chickens: 1 Ameracauna, 1 Black Astralorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Delaware, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Wyandotte, and 11 hatching chicks
About you: It's hard to write about yourself! I'm a happy mother, designer and lover of projects! I've found the most satisfaction in keeping chickens and constructing habitat.
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 Name: Susan Waughtal
From: Squash Blossom Farm in Southeast Minnesota
Profession: Artist, Sprout-grower and novice Farmer
Website: www.squashblossomfarm.blogspot.com
Poultry you currently own?:
Twenty laying hens, mostly Buff Orpingtons and Americaunas, plus a few assorted pretty hens I couldn't resist and about 30 young offspring. One Black Indian Runner duck (the owl got her mate), and 7 French Guineas. We recently harvested our 50 meat chickens and 5 turkeys.
About you: Two years ago my husband and I bought a storybook1920 farmstead and dived into our dream of creating a diverse little farm - complete with cows, pigs, turkeys, bees, a big garden, and, of course, chickens. I am am also an artist. Since moving here most of my paintings involve farm critters.
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