Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Muggsmagee]

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Must be something in the air, is it Spring? NO, it's dust! I moved ALL of my chicks to the small chicken house, it adjoins the "big" chicken house.

The Australorp trio did NOT want to give up their home and move next door with the crabby old ladies!!! I had to forcibly evict them several times before finding the "sqeeze spot"! Amazing what a fully grown Australorp rooster can fit through when he is running from a crabby EE 1/2 his size!

I GOT A BROODY HEN FROM DAISYCHICK!

I'M GONNA HATCH SOME CHICKIES! AND NOT HAVE TO RAISE THEM!

Can you tell I am excited?!? I got her home last night and this morning she was on the eggs, clucking away! She is on the tiny new bantam egg, 2 EE eggs and one of her "sister's" eggs. Hopefully I will have a couple more to give her tomorrow, unless my local enabler has a couple extra...

I gave the silkies haircuts, because I was tired of watching them walk into things!

Goodnight, fellow addicts, I am off to chase chickens in my dreams!!!

Hooray for the broody!!!

I bought a White Cochin chick last year in hopes to have her go broody. Not only does she lay 1 egg every other month, she has NEVER gone broody. I've also noticed the last few weeks she has been eating the White Orpington's eggs!

Even with a constant food supply, treats, and free choice oyster shell. This may be the very first chicken I've raised that I will eat! Lil' stinker!

 

[daisychick]

IdealisticRoo: So I take it the girls fit in just fine! Wow! That was fast. Comfortable enough for one to take over a nest box and eggs and for the other to lay an egg!!! I figured they would be off their regular schedule for at least a week! I told you that one mamma hen is crazy broody!!!

 

[IdealisticRoo]

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Hooray for the broody!!!

I bought a White Cochin chick last year in hopes to have her go broody. Not only does she lay 1 egg every other month, she has NEVER gone broody. I've also noticed the last few weeks she has been eating the White Orpington's eggs!

Even with a constant food supply, treats, and free choice oyster shell. This may be the very first chicken I've raised that I will eat! Lil' stinker!

- Muggsmagee - I have a bantam white cochin, she is the only cochin out of 5 from Ideal that I kept- she was the only non-patterned female. She is a LITTLE MONSTER! Always pecking me and getting into things she shouldn't! However, she meets the standard and looks show quality! She has a nice big RUMP for such a small bird! A poultry judge showed me that many, many moons ago!

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- Daisychick - The broody hen looks like a black puddle with a beak sticking out of it! I saw one of my Smart-Aleck bantams who thought she would mess with the new broody and she got off that nest and whupped the trouble maker AND every other chicken in sight before returning to HER nest!

Got any "extra" eggs available today that I could stick under her?

Even yesterdays "Fridge" eggs would be fine, especially if you sat them out on the counter now...

 

[daisychick]

I did not get any eggs yesterday!

I can save what I get today, which will probably be 1 or 2! I really really need my 22 week olds to start laying like now!!! I have one so far today, it is green so maybe it is a lavender, it is yours if you want it and whatever else magically appears out there today.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

I was putting Aspen and Quinn in their fenced area in the yard this morning and Aspen jumped off my hand and onto the ground. The big girls wasted no time in chasing her around and plucking a bunch of down off of her butt and neck! I tried to grab her but she was running so fast and then Quinn feel off my hand and got chases as well. I grabbed a chick (which happened to be Quinn) and put her in the safe zone. Poppy, who was so nice to the chicks yesterday when we let her be in the confined area with the babies for a few minutes under close supervision, chased Aspen into a tunnel in a trampled bush!

Luckily, nobody could follow Aspen into her hiding place. I chased the big chickens away and started searching the bush. Aspen hid well! I barely found her. Her golden head and breast were behind a bunch of dead leaves in another little hollow and only her brown-and-black tail was sticking out. I know the chickens have to peck to create the pecking order, but I'm still so mad at them!

 

[bargain]

Okay I'm officially in lockdown with 50 eggs today!!!! with the new old incubator...We put another tray of 80 in!!! Please send prayers and hatching vibes this way!!!! So far, so good!!!!

I think it's running a little high, so if the hatch goes a little too fast, we'll know!!!!

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Our current auctions are:

Bonus Lavendar Orpington Eggs & 10+ Blue/Black/Splash Orpington Eggs
12+ Easter Egger Eggs (Lavendar Ameracauna rooster in pen!)
10+ Wheaten Marans Hatching eggs

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Wow! I just hatched 24 this weekend and thought that was a lot! Good for you! Crossing my fingers all goes well.

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

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Hope they hatch!

 

[BooBear]

The urge to hatch more chickies is too stronge......the bator looks so lonely.
The last batch are 3 weeks old today.
14 blue wyandottes are at the age where their hormones ate kicking in. The girls combs and wattles are pinking up.
5 Silkies are hanging out in the introduction pen inside the coop.
Got an order placed with a breeder for different varities of wyandottes.

But.......the bator is so lonely. What is the harm in answering a few auctions?
Poor, poor me. I got the bug.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Yikes, all 3 yes 3!!! Of my incubators are turned off! OMGoodness can you believe that???

I wish I had a broody or something - ugh!!