Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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Muggs, really?!?!

I think you nay be the only chicken keeper who can't.... I think that's funny!
(Sorry.)

I put myself in the same category as the people who pick out the chalaza before cooking with an egg. Ahem...my mother and sister!

Weird habits are picked up in my family! Yet, I'm the only one raising chickens!

 

[emptynester]

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[featherz]

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Muggs, really?!?!

I think you nay be the only chicken keeper who can't.... I think that's funny!
(Sorry.)

I put myself in the same category as the people who pick out the chalaza before cooking with an egg. Ahem...my mother and sister!

Weird habits are picked up in my family! Yet, I'm the only one raising chickens!

My husband does that too!!!! he's insane!

 

[Wild Trapper]

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I thought I was going to have to quit last year, my DW sold a bunch of my chickens, but finally gave in, got tired of my whining

around is more like it, and so I got to keep 7 or 8. Then I saved one of my DILs she was going to butcher, then 4 pullets DW was going to sell, now I have eggs in the incubator. Those are due to go in lock down this weekend. We'll see how many of those are hens and how many I get to keep.

DW does like the fresh eggs so as long as I take care of the chickens and don't bring them in the house,

she will probably let me have a few around. Oh yeah, gotta keep 'em out of her garden and flower beds too. Poor chickens don't get to have any fun.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I put myself in the same category as the people who pick out the chalaza before cooking with an egg. Ahem...my mother and sister!

Weird habits are picked up in my family! Yet, I'm the only one raising chickens!

My husband does that too!!!! he's insane!

Ha ha!!! You tell him there's a place for him too!!!

We'll create a subgroup to our chicken addiction group!

 

[Muggsmagee]

Just wanted to share this....my daughter's 2nd grade class borrowed our still air LG incubator with turner and 28 of our own chicken eggs to try a hatching experiment. 22 out of 28 eggs hatched! (Various EE's, bantam freakazoids and BCM.) I am so impressed with those results! Especially when you factor in all the variables they faced...the teacher had never hatched before, the cheapo bators don't regulate temps well and no one was around to help if needed from 3pm until the following morning before 8, and no one was available on the weekends. The bator spiked to 106 at some point this past weekend and wasn't caught until Monday! Every single chick is free from defects or spraddle leg. And the kids are beside themselves with excitement! I loved it! DD said the entire elementary school has made their way through their class between today and yesterday to watch the hatching and see the chicks. I was able to be a part of it from beginning to end....and was able to show the kids the blood rings from candling and opening the eggs up to show it from the inside out, the quitters and all! They were fascinated. I got to relive the excitement through their eyes!

Loved it!

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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That's awesome! For a hatch where a temperature spiked to that high, I'm surprised that so many chicks made it! But I guess they're pretty darn strong, even as peeps

 

[Muggsmagee]

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That's awesome! For a hatch where a temperature spiked to that high, I'm surprised that so many chicks made it! But I guess they're pretty darn strong, even as peeps

The teacher is really young and sweet. She said as the class was away at their specials, she would become transfixed by watching the bator waiting for them to hatch. She lost all track of time (not like her), she completely forgot to do her planning (again, not like her) and people would walk by and bust her chops because she would be all by herself standing watching a box!

I told her it is called batorvision! It is not easy to look away!

 

[Cass]

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That's awesome! For a hatch where a temperature spiked to that high, I'm surprised that so many chicks made it! But I guess they're pretty darn strong, even as peeps

The teacher is really young and sweet. She said as the class was away at their specials, she would become transfixed by watching the bator waiting for them to hatch. She lost all track of time (not like her), she completely forgot to do her planning (again, not like her) and people would walk by and bust her chops because she would be all by herself standing watching a box!

I told her it is called batorvision! It is not easy to look away!

Are they going to brood them in the classroom for a few weeks to see the feathers come in? (Not ALL of the, but a few) My 4 year olds got a HUGE kick out of watching them "grow up".

 

[Muggsmagee]

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The teacher is really young and sweet. She said as the class was away at their specials, she would become transfixed by watching the bator waiting for them to hatch. She lost all track of time (not like her), she completely forgot to do her planning (again, not like her) and people would walk by and bust her chops because she would be all by herself standing watching a box!

I told her it is called batorvision! It is not easy to look away!

Are they going to brood them in the classroom for a few weeks to see the feathers come in? (Not ALL of the, but a few) My 4 year olds got a HUGE kick out of watching them "grow up".

Regretfully, no. She is afraid something will happen over the weekend when no one is around, so they all come home with me today at the end of the school day.