Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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Brilliant! Please PM me with the results if you think of it. The only downside that I can think of is that humidity fluxuations may have a greater effect on the washed eggs, but I know nothing!

I keep my nest boxes cleaner than my bathroom! Fresh pine shavings and they are covered at night and any unfortunate hen that happened to roost in a nest gets evicted! My eggs come out perfectly clean! I washed ALL of the Poo-smeared eggs that came via ebay. I know some say its bad, but I am not incubating turds!

The eggs that I bought from a BYCer were 98% clean when they arrived and so I did not wash them. Quality shows and people who take care of their chicken houses are who I want to buy from.

I had occasion to enter a recently-vacated coop and I took this picture...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/70082_img_1425.jpg

This coop had NO ROOSTS!

Yikes. Not sure what to make of that. I am glad to know that is not yours though!

The testing comes from a thread that "proves" hatcheries have it right by washing and disinfecting their eggs vs. not washing them. I would like to test this with my own eggs (I've never washed hatching eggs before), and I'm curious to see what my own results will be.

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

I never wash my hatching eggs, if there happens to be poo on an important egg i use a dish scrubby to get it off and keep that egg apart from or marked different than the others so I can keep an eye on it, I don't need a bad one in there, I don't follow most hatching rules but that one i do, a stinker is not a good thing.
Plus any eggs I ship are clean, I will hold up a shipment before I ship a dirty egg. I have a hen that will look for eggs in the nest box and go in there and poop

I swear she dose it on purpose

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I've never washed my eggs. I have taken a dry paper towel or finger nail to scrape off poo from my eggs.

This is the thread if ya'll want to take a gander... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5335093#p5335093

 

[Louieandthecrew]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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I would have a hard time doing that! I might end up a little like this -->

Anyways, I can't stay on now, going to see Tangled!

No fair -

I wonna go see Tangled w/ you!

Haha! Just got to say.




Best. Movie. Ever! I couldn't help but cry!!!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

Oh my goodness! I have a serious addiction - I just checked my checking account and there was negative $300! Oooops! Too many hatching eggs on ebay!

I suppose I should do something, or maybe get some out of savings, but maybe I better address the problem first. Incubitis is a serious disease! Hopefully some hatch on Friday! Maybe that will help, or MAYBE it will get worse after seeing things hatch!

Any suggestions? Should I be dunked headfirst in cold water every time I try to buy more hatching eggs?

 

[Muggsmagee]

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No fair -

I wonna go see Tangled w/ you!

Haha! Just got to say.




Best. Movie. Ever! I couldn't help but cry!!!

I was thinking about taking my kids to see it over vacation.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Haha! Just got to say.




Best. Movie. Ever! I couldn't help but cry!!!

I was thinking about taking my kids to see it over vacation.

I went to go see "The Voyage of The Dawn Treader" instead of Tangled -

 

[Muggsmagee]

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I will go ahead and step in here...stop ordering eggs. At least for a while. It isn't always the cost of the eggs that gets us, but the shipping prices. If I order from 6 people...that's almost $100 in shipping! And the fact that there is no guarantee if those eggs will hatch makes the money spent a bitter pill to swallow. I just lost out on $95 because all but 2 eggs hatched, then my kitten jumped in the brooder and killed the others.

I was livid.
Stay off of ebay for a little while. Put a block on your computer.

 

[Louieandthecrew]

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Haha! Just got to say.




Best. Movie. Ever! I couldn't help but cry!!!

I was thinking about taking my kids to see it over vacation.

I think they'd love it

 

[emvickrey]

Hi, My name is emvickrey and i'm a chicoholic. It started back in 1989 when I first met a lady I worked with that raised birds in her house. Birds like finches, parrots, parakeets...........those kind. Before it was all said and done, I owned over 200 breeding parakeets and 100 cockatiels and had a pet that is a Senagal Parrot. I had zebra finches and doves also. A few other breeds passed my way too then we lost our jobs and I had to sell them all but the parrot. He eventually went to live with a nice lady and he turned 21 this year. I got back into birds in 2005 when a neighbor up and moved away leaving her ...what was still alive...... birds behind. They had been so neglected that they turned to cannibalizm as a source of survival being penned up in a locked cage. e would go over when they would leave and do our best to toss them food and fill their nearly full of mud water bucket.

We where relieved when they just left them behind unwanted so we could take care of them. Although the cannibalizm wasn't able to be stopped we found new homes for those in hopes if they wher separated they would stop. And we started out freshwith an assortment from the feed store. We only have 2 of those birds still on the property as the others have gone to other homes but there are still 37 chickens, 3 ducks 20 and counting silkie chicks, 13 quail and 5 guinnea. 5 of them are awaiting their new owners to pick them up.

DH is a huge enabler. We go to the auction to sell and end up bringing some back. It never fails. It's more of a trading post for us because we don't make any money at it. He once bought 2 tom turkeys on a whim without even thinking we where in the car wth 2 of the grandsons and no cage they would fit in. (the turkeys that is not the grandsons)

So he had to buy a cage too. The poor boys where practically sitting on top of each other on the way home.

My middle grandson is also a little chickoholic. He has his own birds here in their own cage and he comes on the weekends to work to earn their food. He stayed this week because I had been sick and he did it all.

I think this addiction is hereditary.