My sincerest apologies!

[BreanneRN]

Well, we still have 2/3rds of the backyard and one spare room in the house...

 

[Folly's place]

About birds in the house; your lungs are not improved by inhaling that dust!!!
Mary

 

[ChickenCanoe]

True. There are real maladies called 'hen worker's lung', farmer's lung and histoplasmosis.

 

[BreanneRN]

Vaccination works. That's when the wife catches me sneaking more eggs into the incubator and says, "Do we really need more chickens?"

There are also meetings. I'm co-organizer (read that as enabler) of an 800 member chicken meetup group. We get together for coffee/lunch and even coop tours.

I hope your meetings don't start with introductions and "I like chickens, etc., etc., but really, I want a chicken meet-up group too! How do you find one?

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Wait until your chicken math turns to farm math! We started with 5bantams.... Now have Orpingtons, Ameracaunas, ducks, a turkey poult, rabbits, goats, pigs and a new arrival today.... Our lovely gentle giant! A sorrel mare! It gets worse before it ever gets better....

 

[Unexpected chicken lover]

X2...we are the meetings, but we're enablers

I enjoyed reading about how you became infected.

There is no cure, no vaccine, no special meetings and no way to control the urge to get new chicks every spring.

It's ok. We are always here for you.
When your family, friends, coworkers, and strangers don't want to see pics of all your chicks we will be here.
When it's spring and it seems every store you go in has chicks, cute fuzzy chicks, we will be here.
When you need to expand your coop because the chicks got you we will be here.

You are in good company here.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I hope your meetings don't start with introductions and "I like chickens, etc., etc., but really, I want a chicken meet-up group too! How do you find one?

Go to meetup.com and enter your location and chickens.
https://www.meetup.com/find/
It will tell you if there are already any near you or you can start your own.

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Go to meetup.com and enter your location and chickens.
https://www.meetup.com/find/
It will tell you if there are already any near you or you can start your own.

Wait what!?no one ever told me this!!! Yay!!!

 

[townchicks]

Next step, enabling! I'm limited here by town ordinance, but at the slightest hint my friends want chickens, I'm on it like a dog on a bone. Of course you want chickens, here, try these eggs. I'll help with the coop building, and best of all, here, check out this great forum, BYC, of course!

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Yes! Sounds just like me! And soooo many others on here!