Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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I just love how you type...I can envision everything perfectly.

My silkies have no sense of "timing" either. Stinkers.

I picked up the kids from a sleepover, got home in time to turn around and do some last minute shopping. Why is it when it is busy and crowded downtown, people forget how to drive? Like their blinkers are optional, red lights are optional, and if they are creating gridlock it is everyone elses problem. I feel people should be required to take drivers education several times before they actually get a license. It turned my happy mood into something sour. GRRR.

However...after STARTING my shopping just last night and FINISHING today...I'm psyched. I came home with one more pet, though...TWO PARAKEETS for my kids! One bit me when I went to put it in its cage...it hurt! Other than chickens, these are the first indoor birds I've ever owned.

I only plan to make my homemade cinnamon sticky buns tomorrow and NOTHING else. Umm...except wrap gifts. If I don't hear from you all before Christmas, I hope you each have a wonderful and safe holiday, and may you spend your day with people you love. Merry Christmas my BYC friends!

 

[Muggsmagee]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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That reminded me of when my brother and his wife and kids came for a visit a couple years ago. To start out, we are country people and they aren't. My sister n law cleans with bleach to sanitize everything. I have dust bunnies with great great grandchildren. They have 3 spoiled prissy kids, one is disabled but the other 2 are fine. Concidering they are city folk.

Anyway, we all know what it's like living in the country. There are flies, spiders, beetles gnats butter flies.......bugs! My nephew is terrified of bugs.

He at the time was 6' tall 220 pounds and 16 years old and a couch potato. Every time he saw a fly he would run away and beg somebody to kill it.

Since I had chickens there was always more than 1 fly.

At night he would either stay inside or dodge the light as he came out.

: I never laughed at somebody elses fear as much as I did at him.

Then the older niece she was 21 or 22 and is real prissy, don't want to get dirty afraid of spiders. Around here in July it's hot, dry and dusty. She was constantly dusting her cloths off and washing her hands and when she was in the shower for the first time she spotted a spider that I let live in the corner in the shower and she freaked out and screamed for her dad.

So my poor spiders got murdered that day.

His wife being the clean freak she is just couldn't help but to clean every chance she got.

Poor thing worked harder on their vacation than she does at home. lol It was a hilarious 2 weeks and we did enjoy the visit. My nephew doesn't want to come back to the country but my niece would for a few days she said. lol

After they left other spiders replaced the ones that where murdered and took over the job of killing any files or other bugs that got in through the door and my dust bunnies came out from hiding.

OH! DH and the 7 year old grandson got out the 4 wheeler to go see how dirty they could get it and invited the company for a ride also. They didn't even know how to start it, change gears or drive it. I was astounded at their ages they couldn't drive.

My grandsons where all learning to drive something at age 2. DH would get on a country road and let them sit in his lap so they could steer the car or truck. By age 4 they where driving 4 wheelers and lawn mowers. Now at age 9 and 12 they can drive a car. The 2 year old is just getting started.

I think all kids should be brought up in the country. City folks have it too easy and couldn't fend for themselves if they had to.

I know, off subject but I just had to tell that story.

We just had some company leave and they had two little girls and they were THRILLED to death that some of my favorite chickens would eat out of their hands. They adored our outside dog, Milo the border collie and they just loved my Buttons!

I gave them all the little quail eggs I had and their mom just had a fit over them! lol​

Sometimes I can guilt trip myself for not being on top of things. I became afraid of spiders 8 years ago when we bought our first house on foreclosure. The house sat dorment for a year and the spiders went NUTS. They were everywhere. Dropping down by my head when I least expected it. HEEBIES. They were in the showers, basement, office area...between windows. The house was riddled with them. It has taken me almost this entire 8 years to like them again...errr...at least live with them. We live in a different house now. I let a spider live in our kitchen window for 4 months. She got pretty big, and I had to tell company "the story" whenever they went near the sink...I was always afraid someone would kill her without knowing she was our pet. It was sad the day we found her dead. Like our own lil Charlotte.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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We just had some company leave and they had two little girls and they were THRILLED to death that some of my favorite chickens would eat out of their hands. They adored our outside dog, Milo the border collie and they just loved my Buttons!

I gave them all the little quail eggs I had and their mom just had a fit over them! lol

Sometimes I can guilt trip myself for not being on top of things. I became afraid of spiders 8 years ago when we bought our first house on foreclosure. The house sat dorment for a year and the spiders went NUTS. They were everywhere. Dropping down by my head when I least expected it. HEEBIES. They were in the showers, basement, office area...between windows. The house was riddled with them. It has taken me almost this entire 8 years to like them again...errr...at least live with them. We live in a different house now. I let a spider live in our kitchen window for 4 months. She got pretty big, and I had to tell company "the story" whenever they went near the sink...I was always afraid someone would kill her without knowing she was our pet. It was sad the day we found her dead. Like our own lil Charlotte.

I had a spider like that! She was brown and lived in the corner of my bedroom. I forget her name. I let her stay to try and cure my arachniphobia.

 

[emvickrey]

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We just had some company leave and they had two little girls and they were THRILLED to death that some of my favorite chickens would eat out of their hands. They adored our outside dog, Milo the border collie and they just loved my Buttons!

I gave them all the little quail eggs I had and their mom just had a fit over them! lol

Sometimes I can guilt trip myself for not being on top of things. I became afraid of spiders 8 years ago when we bought our first house on foreclosure. The house sat dorment for a year and the spiders went NUTS. They were everywhere. Dropping down by my head when I least expected it. HEEBIES. They were in the showers, basement, office area...between windows. The house was riddled with them. It has taken me almost this entire 8 years to like them again...errr...at least live with them. We live in a different house now. I let a spider live in our kitchen window for 4 months. She got pretty big, and I had to tell company "the story" whenever they went near the sink...I was always afraid someone would kill her without knowing she was our pet. It was sad the day we found her dead. Like our own lil Charlotte.

You gotta know your spiders, which are safe and which aren't. There Brown recluse everywhere around here. We've all been bitten some time or another. DH got bit for the first time this year and he now has a new respect for spiders. I go around every few months and clear out all the ones that have taken up housekeeping to keep them down to a minimum. It's the ones that hide that I watch out for. When DH got bit we where cleaning out the shed and he ws just picking stuff up and running his hands over it. There was an old dresser that was in there before we moved here and it was riddled with spiders. He proceeded to rip the dresser apart to toss it in the fire and one got him on the leg. 3 days later he was at the ER and the doc said it wasn't a BR bite when we knew it was and gave him the wrong antibiotics. It started a staph infection and went completely thru his leg. It was horrible and gross. After several weeks with the right antibiotics, draining it and using peroxide, neosporin and keeping it wrapped it finally healed. I had one climb up my shirt while I was watching TV and bite me. Got me on the back and it was so bad the doc wanted to cut it away. I refused to let him cut a hole in me and it eventualy healed too. They are so painful it's unbelievable. So if you don't already know what they look like, look it up. I've only seen 1 black widow in my life but thousands of brown recluse. They hide in things that are usually not disturbed. Behind pictures on the wall in blankets and sheets that are stored, closets, cloths in the closets. Under beds dressers.

 

[BigIslandChicks]

i dont have time to read any posts - as i have already spent way to much time today on BYC! but i will be subscribing to this thread, because obviously i have a problem. i started with 4 BR pullets in August and now have 18 birds of varying ages (see signature) and i want more,more more and some peafowl and turkeys and lavender birds and bantams and i really need help

- may

 

[BigIslandChicks]

did i mention i am going to built an icubator???

DH is now calling me the crazy bird lady!!!

 

[emvickrey]

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Your not alone. I've been called that for a couple of years now.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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Your not alone. I've been called that for a couple of years now.

I'm probably called that behind my back

or the crazy bird girl, since I'm 14...

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Your not alone. I've been called that for a couple of years now.

I'm probably called that behind my back

or the crazy bird girl, since I'm...

Gamma...go back to your post and take your age out.

I don't want anyone to use that against you. As a momma, I'm proud of you for having a love for birds at such a young age. I have always loved animals, but didn't realize I would have an affinity for poultry. Go figure! My kids like the birds, but haven't attached themselves like I have. There is time to convert them yet!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Sometimes I can guilt trip myself for not being on top of things. I became afraid of spiders 8 years ago when we bought our first house on foreclosure. The house sat dorment for a year and the spiders went NUTS. They were everywhere. Dropping down by my head when I least expected it. HEEBIES. They were in the showers, basement, office area...between windows. The house was riddled with them. It has taken me almost this entire 8 years to like them again...errr...at least live with them. We live in a different house now. I let a spider live in our kitchen window for 4 months. She got pretty big, and I had to tell company "the story" whenever they went near the sink...I was always afraid someone would kill her without knowing she was our pet. It was sad the day we found her dead. Like our own lil Charlotte.

You gotta know your spiders, which are safe and which aren't. There Brown recluse everywhere around here. We've all been bitten some time or another. DH got bit for the first time this year and he now has a new respect for spiders. I go around every few months and clear out all the ones that have taken up housekeeping to keep them down to a minimum. It's the ones that hide that I watch out for. When DH got bit we where cleaning out the shed and he ws just picking stuff up and running his hands over it. There was an old dresser that was in there before we moved here and it was riddled with spiders. He proceeded to rip the dresser apart to toss it in the fire and one got him on the leg. 3 days later he was at the ER and the doc said it wasn't a BR bite when we knew it was and gave him the wrong antibiotics. It started a staph infection and went completely thru his leg. It was horrible and gross. After several weeks with the right antibiotics, draining it and using peroxide, neosporin and keeping it wrapped it finally healed. I had one climb up my shirt while I was watching TV and bite me. Got me on the back and it was so bad the doc wanted to cut it away. I refused to let him cut a hole in me and it eventualy healed too. They are so painful it's unbelievable. So if you don't already know what they look like, look it up. I've only seen 1 black widow in my life but thousands of brown recluse. They hide in things that are usually not disturbed. Behind pictures on the wall in blankets and sheets that are stored, closets, cloths in the closets. Under beds dressers.

Well, the heebies are back! Ack! I am glad you and your husband have recovered from that nightmare.

Here is a spider I found by my garage this fall...that's a half dollar under her. She is big for these neck of the woods. Everyone called her a barn spider...