Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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I try to tell my mom that, but she doesn't believe it. I guess she's not a true chicken lover... If she was, she'd love the remodel the girls did on our yard

Ba ha ha! I can think of several times I didn't care for what my chickens got into (my strawberries and hostas!), but I did notice (and you can remind your parents of this...) that wherever my chickens have been...the grass grows thicker and lusher! You can't beat free range fertilizer!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

HELP! My chicken addiction is worsening!

I spent several days converting an old TV Console (solid Mahogany - circa 1950's) into an incubator.

Now my craze is hatching eggs on ebay! I have bid and got outbid on several auctions!

If anyone on here has any crosses or "test eggs" - I can pay for shipping and a small fee for the eggs, but I am on a somewhat limited budget, so I cannot afford eggs at $20+ not including shipping. No disrespect to anyone, I am not questioning their value, I simply cannot afford that high!

I am very interested in Ameraucanas, Araucanas, E.E. crosses, especially with barred rocks or any other cuckoo/ barred chicken. I am in love with the Silkie-feathered Ameraucanas, but I don't have that kind of money yet!

I also like Black Australorps and Polish crosses.

I love BYC, there are days when this website is my only social interaction...

 

[Muggsmagee]

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My girls aren't laying yet. They've gone on strike. I went from getting 2 dozen eggs a day to just one egg a day! If that! Slackers.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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I would, but I don't have a rooster

 

[magicpigeon]

Hi, I'm magicpigeon

The 1st chicken I owned was a mutt, and I didn't actually want her at the start, but her owner was giving them away and at the last minute I took her

She died a few months later (neighbour's cat

) but by then, he had bought silkies, and gave me one

Soon she got lonely and to my parent's despair, I borrowed a rooster. This inevitably lead to a multitude of baby chicks. Then, I decided white was boring, and bought ( at a $50 cost..yikes!) 2 colored silkies. Around the same time, a second clutch of eggs was laid, and 2 babies were found under my very motherly pigeon...

And then...

I decided bantam and no feathers and most importantly, no clucking, was boring and bought a sussex and australorp. I thought I got 2 hens, but now I know I've got a rooster. And I think I know what's going to happen next. Does anyone know what sussex/australorp crosses look like...?

Don't forget my countless pigeons, 5 quails and numerous parrots...I think maybe I posted in the wrong thread...I'm addicted to ALL birds

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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Welcome!

 

[TinyBirds]

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PM me if you'd like to try some hatching eggs. If you pay the shipping (guessing around $12/dozen) I'm happy to send them. I have a pen with various marans (3 roosters are golden cuckoo marans, hens various including BCM, blue marans, and some buff cochin). A black Ameraucana rooster (Paul Smith line) was sneaky and ended up in the pen today somehow, so you might get him as a daddy also, ending up with an olive egger. I also have various free range eggs, all fertile, but lots of various breeds. My head rooster is an Australorp, but there are 50+ other roosters doing their jobs too....

 

[Muggsmagee]

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PM me if you'd like to try some hatching eggs. If you pay the shipping (guessing around $12/dozen) I'm happy to send them. I have a pen with various marans (3 roosters are golden cuckoo marans, hens various including BCM, blue marans, and some buff cochin). A black Ameraucana rooster (Paul Smith line) was sneaky and ended up in the pen today somehow, so you might get him as a daddy also, ending up with an olive egger. I also have various free range eggs, all fertile, but lots of various breeds. My head rooster is an Australorp, but there are 50+ other roosters doing their jobs too....

TinyBirds...you have me beat...by far! I thought I was addicted because I have around 30 roos! They are all friendly and I just can't get rid of them.

 

[featherz]

I'm so addicted that I just rehomed a pile of chickens and am already thinking of what I can hatch next. Large fowl, definitely. Everyone around here keeps asking me for easter eggers so I guess that's what I must hatch

. or Jersey Giants. Not sure why but I'd really like to have a few of those.

Have to find homes for seven bantam roos first - that's my goal before I can hatch anything else!

Mugs, do you need any more roos?

They are still young and cute!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Ba ha ha!

No! No more roos! I am getting rid of all of my JG's. You are more than welcome to them. I have one FANTASTIC rooster and 3 hens. I'm not kidding...he is a love! Gentle on the ladies and very protective...lets me hold him, likes to be pet. Featherz...just meet me halfway and they are yours!

They are all less than a year old. He's a big one. I'll throw in a Silver Ameraucana roo for your Easter Egger project...he's straight from John Blehm. I too need to make room....well for more!