Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

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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.
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I was livid.
Stay off of ebay for a little while. Put a block on your computer.
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Every birdi owner needs a cat like I got. As long as the chick is in something even if it isn't covered she won't touch it but if it gets loose, it's on. It's a race to see who gets to it first. Most of the time I can just tell her no, but she is a hunter. A good one from the loks of her fat self. She has had a couple breakfasts and dinners of quail but it's because they got out and I didn't catch them all. She even sat on the cage as I was putting aprons on some of the quail and just watched. It actually helped me because the quail froze
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when they saw her and stopped fighting me. I was able to get the aprons on easier.
Some moron dropped her off on us one day last year in August. We really didn't want a cat but she hung around and eventually ended up pregnant. WE didn't know she was a she till she was nearly ready to deliver. She had her babies and we got her fixed and found homes for her kids. They where tearing the place up. She now comes and goes as she pleases.

Who ever dropped her off had a great loss because she is a great cat especially since she wasn't trained at all. It's just her personality to be a good girl.
 
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Anyone? How's your day been?
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let's see, drove a bus through the snow, chased mr. attidute through the snow, started cleaning the pens in the chick shed, spent some time on BYC...so how about you?
 
I love chickens.
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especially adorable cochin hens with grumpy faces
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and the tiny baby chicks with fluffy feet...and soft down. We used to have 10hens (and several roos) now, we have 16hens, 2 cockerels, 1 rooster, & 4 guinea hens.
My favorite is a 18wk old standard/bantam cross cochin pullet. I may be biased but she is THE cutest cochin EVER!

I love chickens.
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Hello,
this is a great thread. I must admit, I am addicted also. It only started 2 years ago, 3 of my 4 dogs contracted Lyme Disease, to combat the ticks, I bought an incubator and 4 doz guinea eggs... well, that was it... 2 years later, I have 14 guineas and 13 assorted chickens... (plus a brand new incubator waiting to be fired up this spring) cause I also wanted fresh chicken eggs, and birds were such fun... why not some chickens with my guineas... 2 coops later.... well you get the story... just today I was thinking, as I sat in the coop watching my chickens, how therapeutic it was to feed, water and care for my birds... I love wasting time doing my chores down by my coops!!
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Anyone? How's your day been?
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let's see, drove a bus through the snow, chased mr. attidute through the snow, started cleaning the pens in the chick shed, spent some time on BYC...so how about you?

Wow, busy day! Went to see 'Tangled', did some Christmas shopping, played tennis, got on BYC, drove an hour
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, finally home: got ready for bed and got on BYC! Just about to get off and head for the sack though
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Goodnight all! I may not be back on tomorrow because I have some family coming down for Christmas from a fourteen hour car drive
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But, I'll talk to you guys later!!
 
Well, I went to the post office to send off a bunch of eggs, picked up a few things at the grocery. Tended to the chickens. Convinced a broody hen to get off the empty nest for a while. Visited you all fine folks for a few hours, watched a few movies on the DVD. went back out to collect eggs and shoo the silkies to bed and caught the little broody hen back on the nest with an angry face at the silkie that had laid an egg that she stole from her. She is determined to sit on eggs.

I may just bring her in and put her in a cage with a nest and let her have at it. I always wanted a broody but not this time of year.

Ok, fixed supper, made DH his lunch and sent him off to work so he can buy my chickens some more food.
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Now i'm back with you fine folks of BYC.
 

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