Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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Oh...my...goodness! At first I want to ask how a chicken falls off a poultry truck, but I suppose I can imagine it.

Great find for you, great home for her! Win/win! Love that! What a way to be introduced to raising chickens!!!

You're telling me!!! My Aunt couldn't stop laughing when we told her! And she has chickens! My friends think I'm even crazier now! I just tell them that if I let them take care of a baby chick for one day they would be hooked too...

That's what I say! Most people have no idea what they are missing out on! Chickens are amazing to raise! Entertainment in the purest form!

 

[LittleLady98]

I have had chickens about 5 months so far, and I can't imagine not having them!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Do you notice there are sections (spans?) of time that just "disappear"? They do for me...when I'm watching the flock, the brooders and the bator! Literal hours can go by without me noticing! I become so absorbed watching these guys. My DD's 2nd grade teacher hatched eggs of ours a few weeks ago and said she would get "caught" just standing watching the incubator, where her plans wouldn't get done because watching the hatch was so exciting! I call it batorvision.

You still have a manageable flock. Chicken math may get you yet! It sure got me! Wanted to start with 5...ended up with 15 chicks and within just a few weeks was hatching and ordering chicks. It becomes a sickness!

 

[LittleLady98]

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Do you notice there are sections (spans?) of time that just "disappear"? They do for me...when I'm watching the flock, the brooders and the bator! Literal hours can go by without me noticing! I become so absorbed watching these guys. My DD's 2nd grade teacher hatched eggs of ours a few weeks ago and said she would get "caught" just standing watching the incubator, where her plans wouldn't get done because watching the hatch was so exciting! I call it batorvision.

You still have a manageable flock. Chicken math may get you yet! It sure got me! Wanted to start with 5...ended up with 15 chicks and within just a few weeks was hatching and ordering chicks. It becomes a sickness!

I'll go outside while waiting for my lunch to warm up and start playing with my chickens and scratching between my girls wattles (She loves that), next thing I know, my mom says it's almost time to get back to my work!!!! The hour can fly by fast!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

I moved away from the big city to come back to my little hometown and help my parents out while they are having some health problems. Having chickens has been great therapy and has kept me entertained and busy!

At some point, my interest in chickens became a full fledged poultry addiction! I started in March 2010 with 7 baby Easter Egger chicks and in late August I was getting 7 blue, green and pink eggs a day! Not sure why now, but I saw an ad for the cutest little Easter egger rooster on the Craigslist for $10 or trade for a hen. SO I traded and about a week later, the rooster got eaten by a fox (very nice of the fox to eat the useless one)!

Well, that started the crazy chicken ordering frenzy! The post office called in October to say that 50 chicks arrived, 25 more in November, 50 total (2 orders) in December, 50 in January and 25 in February! Maybe more, but I think that was it! I sold most of those chicks and made $1-5 profit each! Then I tried to incubate eggs and after heating 200+ eggs, I hatched a total of 7 chicks, 3 of which died. Then 2 hens went broody and 1 hatched 4 and the other hatched 6 and then the feed stores started carrying chicks that keep following me home!!!!

So now I have about 70-80(ish) chickens, I don't honestly know how many chickens are out there!

My parents have been very understanding about my poultry addiction/ obsession, but it has gotten OUT of CONTROL! Over-running their property in chickens is NOT really helping them out!

I spoke to mom about it, and we came to the conclusion that it is nice to have eggs, but there are too many here now. We just now talked about it again and she and I compromised at keeping a few (12-ish) hens and the 2 geese! She is willing to start helping take care of the chickens!

I am 100% serious about this! I put the ad up on craigslist for the first round of selling already! It is here - http://pueblo.craigslist.org/grd/2331644320.html

This will give local chicken purchasers a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get started one-of a kind rare chickens! Sorry, fellow BYC chicken addicts, I can't ship chickens and anyway, they are retail priced to make me money and help me get out of debt!

 

[memiller123]

Hello. I am also a chickaholic. We started out with 6 chickens two years ago and now we have 52. We currently have 10 different breeds. I'm not allowed to go to Tractor Supply because we always come out with more chicks!

 

[Cass]

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It's not an addiction, it's a passion. Sounds soooo much better.

 

[featherz]

And don't forget, chicks don't count!!

I've only got 24 chickens if you only count those over 8 weeks old.

(those 38 in the barn? They'll probably all end up roos, ya know.. ).. And out of those 24 chickens, only 15 are old enough to lay eggs plus I guess you have to count the roo. So really, that's only 16.. right? right?

(insert hysterical giggle here)..

 

[LittleLady98]

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If chicks don't count, then I have 1 chicken! I am doing good...

 

[LittleLady98]

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, have fun with the future chicks!!!