Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Morgan7782]

Rainy day here! Brr.

My whole patio is flooded and my brahma looks like a half plucked drowned rat lol. She is still in the open rain plucking about with the other girls. Butternut my Wyandotte is still squatting yaaay. I am worried the weather is putting off my coop building though

anywho hope everybody is well!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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My word I completely understand. It took us FOREVER to get our coop done. We finally finished our coop after a huge nasty rain in November. The outdoor runs were nothing but mud. A bunch of the chickens were put in their indoor pens all icky and muddy. After almost a month of dry, clean shavings, they still look a mess! Especially those awesome feather footed breeds. My Brahmas, Silkies, Langshans and Cochins still look nasty. I just might suck it up and bathe them soon. After all, in my next life I want to come back as one of my chickens!

We are now looking at building another coop for strictly egg layers. Now that I'm getting ducks this February, I'm wondering if I can house them together? I recently read that ducks don't require a body of water to swim in to have a full life and be happy.

Is there any way we can put a different label to this thread...something OTHER than addiction? Makes me feel like I have a problem!

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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Hope the rain stops soon.

 

[IdealisticRoo]

I sold 6 bantams yesterday! These are out of my Ideal Poultry 99 cent special - https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5148581#p5148581

I had put an ad up on Craigslist offering bantams for $5 each, because I was beginning to worry that they were getting crowded and that they were picking on each other. Also, it was becoming obvious that there were too many roosters!

So I put the 6 that I was willing to sell into a pen in the yard, as it was a nice day and 60 degrees out. The lady and her husband drove 1 and a half hours to get here. She selected the 2 cochins and the red laced white cornish and I offered all 6 for only $20 and she took it! So I helped her load them into a dog carrier and off they went!

My juvenile house is so comfortable and QUIET now! The 4 BA pullets and their matching cockerel seem to be friends with all of the other bantams that they were raised with. The bantams include the 2 black Japanese pullets, the grey Japanese cockerel, a blue cornish pullet, a white cochin pullet, and the 2 silkie pullets, a white and a partridge. The 4 Dutch bantams are still in a cage in the garage, because they are still WAY smaller than any of the other and get picked on!

 

[feather leg farms]

Sounds like my house.!! I had a few silkies and a yr and a half later 50!! hatching more and more.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Win/win/win! You made room for more chickens, while getting a little bit of money to cover your costs, and the couple who bought them get to start on their addiction!

I love when that works out.

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I must say...silkies are my biggest addiction. As much as I hated having two lousy (EXTREMELY LOUSY) hatches, if the eggs had all hatched, I'd have an extra 52 silkies running around. Yikes.

Feather leg...what color silkies do you have?

 

[Louieandthecrew]

Hello

Not staying on, just sayin' good afternoon

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Hello!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

When I started on this thread, I think my goal was looking for an "alcoholics anonymous" approach to "curing" my poultry addiction!

AA meetings DO NOT encourage their members to talk about how much they drink, like we brag about how many chickens we have, order, and/ or are trying to hatch!

I think I may have a serious problem! I started "chickening" in March of this year after being an abstainer from poultry for 18 years. I got the urge in summer of 2009 while attending the Utah state fair.

I now have 49 chickens, about 50 fertile eggs in various stages of incubation, 2 dozen Phoenix and assorted eggs on the way from another BYC-er, and I have bids on several more lots of eggs on ebay.

I CAN'T afford this! I am already in credit card debt, I owe on BOTH of my cars and I live with my parents! What am I doing?

I also have a growing desire to possess emu hatchlings, and my fingers twitch when I see posts like http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_np...w=emu+hatching+eggs&_sacat=See-All-Categories

I think I really do need help!