Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[Jloeffler]

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[Jloeffler]

Aspen, I would love to see some pics of your cuckoo orps if you have any. I have never seen one before! I really need to find a way to contact the guy I met. He's NPIP certified and specializes in rare LF breeds. He was selling some of his lavender orps when I met him as well as some wheaten marans. He offered a tour of his farm and a deal on any birds I liked! Hard deal to pass up!

 

[Miss Lydia]

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J, I just passed you on the broody thread, and here you are over here talking about getting more chickens. Yep addictions....

welcome Josh and if you expect us to talk you out of anything your in the wrong place, hehe!! Welcome and congrats on the new addictions. I have been offered a deal I can hardly pass up, a lady will sell me 5 Muscovy ducklings for 15.00 unsexed.which means any drakes I will have to rehome because I have 2 many already. but to get some girls...............

So the only obsticle in my way is DH, anyone need an extra hubby?

He says only 2 girls and thats it..

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I went ahead and added some water to the HB...I keep losing my Serama eggs..I figure they're just drying up. I fired up the Sportsman. I stuck 4 more Guinea eggs, 1 Serama, 2 Golden Buffs, and 2 Green eggs. We shall see what we get....oh I also added a wee bit of water. We shall see how this hatch turns out.

I have one BTW Jap hen named Button. She is a cutie. If you were closer to me I'd give her to me. At one point I thought I'd like to breed them, but I've got too many other breeds I'm trying to work with at the moment.

~Aspen

One of my friends raises Seramas...he says they are a nightmare to hatch, especially shipped eggs.

ZooMummyz here on BYC raises Seramas and just about everone she ships eggs to have had good hatch rates. I my Seramas from a lady on BYC as hatching eggs. I had 5/7 eggs hatched, one of the babies died but I still have 4. I've shipped off several batches of Serama eggs and everyone has had tons of babies hatch..I just can't seem to get any!

~Aspen

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I don't have any yet. But as soon as I can send $200 to the breeder the trio is mine...but I don't have the money right now so he is just holding them for me. Plus I don't have secure place to put them.

Sometimes I just want to sell all my poultry...I think they might have a better life! Seriously! Just today our stupid puppy killed two chickens. One of my two White Ams, and the only female I hatched out of Mrs. Fluffy Puffy's eggs!

Today is cold and rainey, but I went ahead and let the chickens out...after the puppy killed the two chickens we tryed to herd the back in the coop....good luck trying to herd 150+ plus chickens in a coop! Instead we tied up the puppy on the backporch. I'm so furious right now! Not only at him, but at myself. I don't have my poultry facility yet, and until it's built I don't have a place to put them. All my high dollar juvenile chicks are just running with my layer flock. It is so frustrating not having a good, safe, secure facility to breed what I love. I don't even know why I'm trying to raise chickens in Texas..everything seems to be against me.

~Aspen

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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I don't have any yet. But as soon as I can send $200 to the breeder the trio is mine...but I don't have the money right now so he is just holding them for me. Plus I don't have secure place to put them.

Sometimes I just want to sell all my poultry...I think they might have a better life! Seriously! Just today our stupid puppy killed two chickens. One of my two White Ams, and the only female I hatched out of Mrs. Fluffy Puffy's eggs!

Today is cold and rainey, but I went ahead and let the chickens out...after the puppy killed the two chickens we tryed to herd the back in the coop....good luck trying to herd 150+ plus chickens in a coop! Instead we tied up the puppy on the backporch. I'm so furious right now! Not only at him, but at myself. I don't have my poultry facility yet, and until it's built I don't have a place to put them. All my high dollar juvenile chicks are just running with my layer flock. It is so frustrating not having a good, safe, secure facility to breed what I love. I don't even know why I'm trying to raise chickens in Texas..everything seems to be against me.

~Aspen

I'm sorry your puppy killed some of your chickens

 

[Cass]

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J, I just passed you on the broody thread, and here you are over here talking about getting more chickens. Yep addictions....

welcome Josh and if you expect us to talk you out of anything your in the wrong place, hehe!! Welcome and congrats on the new addictions. I have been offered a deal I can hardly pass up, a lady will sell me 5 Muscovy ducklings for 15.00 unsexed.which means any drakes I will have to rehome because I have 2 many already. but to get some girls...............

So the only obsticle in my way is DH, anyone need an extra hubby?

He says only 2 girls and thats it..

I'm pretty darn busy around here, I could use an extra Hubby. At least until spring, then you can have him back.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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J, I just passed you on the broody thread, and here you are over here talking about getting more chickens. Yep addictions....

welcome Josh and if you expect us to talk you out of anything your in the wrong place, hehe!! Welcome and congrats on the new addictions. I have been offered a deal I can hardly pass up, a lady will sell me 5 Muscovy ducklings for 15.00 unsexed.which means any drakes I will have to rehome because I have 2 many already. but to get some girls...............

So the only obsticle in my way is DH, anyone need an extra hubby?

He says only 2 girls and thats it..

I'm pretty darn busy around here, I could use an extra Hubby. At least until spring, then you can have him back.

only problem is since he's retired it's hard to get him to do much

 

[Jloeffler]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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I don't have any yet. But as soon as I can send $200 to the breeder the trio is mine...but I don't have the money right now so he is just holding them for me. Plus I don't have secure place to put them.

Sometimes I just want to sell all my poultry...I think they might have a better life! Seriously! Just today our stupid puppy killed two chickens. One of my two White Ams, and the only female I hatched out of Mrs. Fluffy Puffy's eggs!

Today is cold and rainey, but I went ahead and let the chickens out...after the puppy killed the two chickens we tryed to herd the back in the coop....good luck trying to herd 150+ plus chickens in a coop! Instead we tied up the puppy on the backporch. I'm so furious right now! Not only at him, but at myself. I don't have my poultry facility yet, and until it's built I don't have a place to put them. All my high dollar juvenile chicks are just running with my layer flock. It is so frustrating not having a good, safe, secure facility to breed what I love. I don't even know why I'm trying to raise chickens in Texas..everything seems to be against me.

~Aspen

I am so sorry! Sometimes I get upset with the way things are going with mine and think maybe it would be better if I rehomed them and started over! I wish I had the money to build the type of coops I want, the way I want. I'm trying to learn to be happy with what I have. Some days are better than others

I have almost no hobby of any kind up until I discovered chickens. I think I'm trying to make up for lost time! Now, if I could just figure out what it is about my DH that is turning all my Roos into attack birds...​

 

[Jloeffler]

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J, I just passed you on the broody thread, and here you are over here talking about getting more chickens. Yep addictions....

welcome Josh and if you expect us to talk you out of anything your in the wrong place, hehe!! Welcome and congrats on the new addictions. I have been offered a deal I can hardly pass up, a lady will sell me 5 Muscovy ducklings for 15.00 unsexed.which means any drakes I will have to rehome because I have 2 many already. but to get some girls...............

So the only obsticle in my way is DH, anyone need an extra hubby?

He says only 2 girls and thats it..

Ummm...is this where I point out you were there too??

definitely addicted! I'm starting to think I need to sign up for the incubating addiction thread too as I keep finding myself staring at the hatching egg auction sites... I don't really NEED silkies, do I?