Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[featherz]

Mugs - set me up with eggs in the spring too! We can meet for lunch or something so they don't have to be shipped. Too bad my bator can only hold about 25 or so even if I squish them in.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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You got it!

 

[featherz]

Mugs, how are your little leghorns? Mine keep laying me massive clean white eggs although the chickens look like they have been bathing in mud. I've been using bag balm on the gigantic combs to ward off any frostbite and the silly little girls rub it all over, then do some dustbathing. Argh!!!!! I just hope none of my neighbors come by to get eggs and see my dirty chickens.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I put them in a brooder with same sized pullets...they are the ones getting picked on. For now they are at the bottom of the totum pole.

I love the picture you painted of your girls! I can see it clearly.

 

[Louieandthecrew]

Merry Christmas eve everyone! Are you ready for Christmas tomorrow?

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Merry Christmas to you too! My kids sure are ready for tomorrow! I still have ALL of the wrapping to do!

 

[Louieandthecrew]

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Merry Christmas to you too! My kids sure are ready for tomorrow! I still have ALL of the wrapping to do!

Uh-oh! Haha, you better get to work then

Today my grandmother had me and my family over to open a couple of gifts from her

It was very fun!

 

[elizabethbinary]

Hi my name is Elizabeth and I'm a chookaddict.

I was supposed to have 3. I'm not entirely sure how many I have. Around 30. I'm allowed to have 25 on a 800 sq. metre block where I live. I live on a 799 square metre block. But I asked the council and they said they'd count it at 800 for me!!! ..... they sure as hell are wishing they took that back now! My husband was raised on a 750 acre farm up north so most of our purchases and culls go up there. We're going up there this week to put some ducks in the freezer and bring up new breeding stock.

I wanted 3 because it's just the two of us but now I sell my eggs. $4 a doz is like 1/2 the price of the markets for organic-fed freerange (which mine are, but not certified but neither are the shops sometimes) and I put it in a little Chicken Bank. The chickens food and medicine comes out of this bank. Surprisingly, they have money! But if I bought my chickens out of the chicken bank...... yeah. hahahaha they're not making me money thats for sure.

Really need to consider them for food these days. Getting too excited with hens and wants over needs. I'm sad the five silkies are going up (to the farm.. the real farm, with land) this week. They were cute little stupid heads. Also turns out the two sexed barnvelder hens I bought are not all hens... so now I have a Barnie breeding pair I'll send to the farm to make more Barnies. I could get a refund from the breeder for it being a rooster, but I'm actually fine with this. Helps the cull.

I think my favourites so far are my muscovies, my baby Wynadotte chick and, I know this sounds funny, my Isa Browns. I love how simple, pure and calm they are. My sussex is everyone else's favourite because she's not shy AT ALL (and never was) and will probably own pecking order by the time she lays her first egg, but she's a bit much for me. I love the laziness and happiness of the Isa Browns.

But hot darn my barnies/silkies are cute.

 

[Louieandthecrew]

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Welcome to the CAA!!!!! Thanks for sharing!

 

[emvickrey]

We took our gifts to our grandsons today so we're done now. DH is going to get me a laptop hopefully

I guess he felt guilty because he didn't take the time before now to get me something. I took the grandsons out shopping for him and I got him something too. I guess I put an unintentional guilt trip on him. I heard him on the phone calling somewhere asking about laptops and something about monday when he gets off work. He works midnights and is always very tired because he works hard 10 hours a day usually 6 days a week and the travel is over 2 hours a day round trip. So, he's not here much and when he is, he is sleeping. Besides that, I'm not a child that gets disappointed when I don't get a gift. I just wanted the grandsons to have a good Christmas. And DH needed what I got him.

Merry Christmas everybody. Be safe.