Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[IdealisticRoo]

Wow, I guess I have good luck!!!

I ordered 25 assorted bantams 2 weeks ago, picked out 9 that I liked best and sold the rest and broke even, so these 9 were almost free!

I ordered 25 S/R EEs last week and picked out 7 plain quiet ones that I hope are girls and sold the rest! The buyer was told that I had picked out 7 of the girls (I hope), so no hard feelings. I even showed them the ones I kept!

On this weeks order I ordered specific breeds (10 White Crested Blue Polish, 5 Cuckoo Maran pullets and a Welsummer pullet), so nothing to sell!

I get strange looks from my family and friends when they find out I have another box of chickens coming in the mail EVERY week!

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Naughty Boy!!

~ Aspen

 

[gryeyes]

Ahem.

I ordered six, female (sexed) Cayuga ducklings from Metzer Farms, ship date of August 29. My birthday is the next day.... a present for ME! I've got these four Cayuga drakes which are terrorizing my call duck pair, because she's the only girl ducky around. Her hubby is too small to stop the big boy Cayugas. (At least if they aren't cornered, they can actually FLY away from the Cayugas!)

Anyway.... six little adorable, black Cayuga girls are gonna be waddling around here real soon.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Have you moved into your new place yet?

~ Aspen

 

[gryeyes]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

Have you moved into your new place yet?

Yes and no.

My dogs, cats, most of the chickens, and two geese are in residence, I am sleeping there nightly on an AeroBed, have three kitchen chairs, two short tables, and most of the clothes I need this time of year for work and for hanging around home. There are still 10 chickens and all six ducks at the house/property I have been renting for the past four years. I check on the birds on my lunch breaks and pick up this or that to take up to the new place every day.

I am NOT going to move the furniture and household goods until I have divested myself of all the crap I don't want to move, first. (And the last of the flock are in residence where they belong... but I gotta snag 'em off their roosts, stuff 'em in boxes and drive an hour and a half with 'em to get them there. I work a nine hour day, actually ten with an hour lunch break, and am absolutely whipped when I get home at night. So the weekends are when I perform the "chicken run" events.)​

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Yes and no.

My dogs, cats, most of the chickens, and two geese are in residence, I am sleeping there nightly on an AeroBed, have three kitchen chairs, two short tables, and most of the clothes I need this time of year for work and for hanging around home. There are still 10 chickens and all six ducks at the house/property I have been renting for the past four years. I check on the birds on my lunch breaks and pick up this or that to take up to the new place every day.

I am NOT going to move the furniture and household goods until I have divested myself of all the crap I don't want to move, first. (And the last of the flock are in residence where they belong... but I gotta snag 'em off their roosts, stuff 'em in boxes and drive an hour and a half with 'em to get them there. I work a nine hour day, actually ten with an hour lunch break, and am absolutely whipped when I get home at night. So the weekends are when I perform the "chicken run" events.)

Good Grief Women!

No wonder it's taking so long to move!

How long do you reckon it'll take ya to move all the "junk" over to the new house? How much acreage does your new place have? Hopefully, tons, and tons of room..so you can stock pile chickens on it!

~ Aspen

 

[Muggsmagee]

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ALL OF YOUR NEW DUCKS WERE DRAKES???? What are the odds? These are the little ones you smuggled in to your rental a few months back, right? I have 2 Cayugas hens I'm not in love with...if you lived closer, they'd be yours!

 

[Muggsmagee]

Speaking of ducks...our ducks like to drop their eggs all over their pen...there is no designated spot they like to lay in (yet). So we literally go on an egg hunt every morning. I scanned the yard, found 6 eggs and thought hmm...6 is better than nothing. Fed the ducks, scanned a little more (our Cayugas lay rock colored eggs and we have a lot of pebbles and rocks in their pen)...I saw nothing else. So, I'm watching the ducks, cute lil' buggars, gorging themselves, going for a dive in the pond, chasing each other around, and just as I was about to leave the pen I looked down to take a step and low and behold, INSIDE one of the duck-drilled holes in the ground is a sparkling white egg that was completely wedged in and a good inch below the ground surface. Talk about tricky to get out in one piece!!! With my caveman instincts I grabbed the nearest available tool...a five inch twig as strong as an 80 year old's hips...slowly dug a counter hole and leveraged under the egg...it took a few tries, but that beauty of an egg popped out completely intact! For all of my effort, I claim this day victorious!!! There shall be a plaque made in my honor, schools and streets named after me...for the mere ingenuity of problem solving and winning. I am a winner!

 

[Muggsmagee]

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Just ONE Wellie????

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Speaking of ducks...our ducks like to drop their eggs all over their pen...there is no designated spot they like to lay in (yet). So we literally go on an egg hunt every morning. I scanned the yard, found 6 eggs and thought hmm...6 is better than nothing. Fed the ducks, scanned a little more (our Cayugas lay rock colored eggs and we have a lot of pebbles and rocks in their pen)...I saw nothing else. So, I'm watching the ducks, cute lil' buggars, gorging themselves, going for a dive in the pond, chasing each other around, and just as I was about to leave the pen I looked down to take a step and low and behold, INSIDE one of the duck-drilled holes in the ground is a sparkling white egg that was completely wedged in and a good inch below the ground surface. Talk about tricky to get out in one piece!!! With my caveman instincts I grabbed the nearest available tool...a five inch twig as strong as an 80 year old's hips...slowly dug a counter hole and leveraged under the egg...it took a few tries, but that beauty of an egg popped out completely intact! For all of my effort, I claim this day victorious!!! There shall be a plaque made in my honor, schools and streets named after me...for the mere ingenuity of problem solving and winning. I am a winner!

That sounds just like my Guineas! They will be walking around the barnyard and just drop out an egg and walk off!!

Although, I noticed when they had been laying for awhile they did pick a favorite nesting spot to drop their eggs in. The other day one of the Lavender females walked over to a nest that had some eggs in it and just plopped out an egg.

~ Aspen​