Good to know I'm not alone over here.
No matter what, I always respond to temptation with, "Hey, I have space for these!"
What colors of OEGB are you drooling over?
Uh oh, coop plans.
Scary place to be.
Get some. You
need them.
Those legs are reason enough!
Awww, thanks!
They were a surprise, hatched in the coop ceiling.
Good, good....I love being an enabler!
~Alex
I have long had a love for Silver Duckwing in its many forms.
Just a gorgeous color with a lot of potential. Fawn Silver Duckwing was my first OEGB variety love.
I started with a pair of Fawn Silver Duckwings last year and hatched from them in the spring.
Then I told myself, 'I need just regular Silver Duckwings to cross into my Fawns. For, err, genetic diversity. Yeah.'
I haven't yet gotten my hands on any, but there have been a few tempting times at the feed store with tiny bitties fresh out of the box...
Now I've seen Blue Silver Duckwing. Oh, what a beautiful variety!
I must have!
However, Blue SDW is pretty hard to find. The good news is, there are varieties that I could use to cross into the Fawn SDWs to make both Blue and Platinum Silver Duckwings. Blue Golden Duckwing would be the easiest to use for that result, but that one's also fairly uncommon. Blue Red could also work, it would just take a bit more time to breed away from mahogany. So now I'm up to... I need Blue Reds and/or Blue Golden Duckwings,
and regular Silver Duckwings. For genetic diversity, of course.
See how it snowballs?
Eventually, I'll need like a dozen varieties just to cross and see what happens. How am I supposed to build a coop big enough?
I'm going to the Ohio Nationals this year, at this point mostly in the hopes I run across a nice pair of one of those varieties for sale. We'll see if I get away without some Moderns, too.
I wish I could be surprised at chicks hatching in the ceiling... These birds will brood anywhere, won't they?
Blue SDWs, wow. 
Or will you be selling these lovely chicks?
