Chicken (Poultry) Addiction Anonymous *Chat Thread*

[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..

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?

YES!

 

[LovinChicknFarmn]

This thread makes me laugh! However, I am also an addict, so I belong here too! I started a blog a few months ago and I just wrote a post about this topic..http://lovinchicknfarmin.blogspot.com/2011/09/crazy-chicken-lady.html

I hope you enjoy!

 

[Cass]

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Maybe it's his shoes? Are they heavy duty work boots? My chickens HATE those things and fly at the knees of the wearer. (Hey, they're D'uccles, that's as high as they can get on a short run)

 

[Muggsmagee]

I was just told today the lady I inspired to get chickens has ordered herself 25 "Ameraucanas" that will lay all sorts of beautiful colored eggs and the birds are all different types of colors. I gave her my sincere "congratulations on getting EE's, they are some of my faves in my flock" and had to bite HARD on my tongue to refrain from giving the true Ameraucana lesson. I don't want to always be "one of those" people that harps on the inaccuracy and misrepresentations of EE's as Ameraucanas, but it is TOUGH...really tough...to hold it in.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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I 2nd this...

~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

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...

By the time I get my poultry building finished (heaven knows when they will be) I won't have any chickens to put in it!!

I think I am going to reconsider some of the breeds I was going to breed. I think I'm mainly going to work with the Sussex, my Seramas, and then the Orpingtons. I'm very fond of my Black Orps, but I would like all the Orpington colors.

~Aspen

 

[Miss Lydia]

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

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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...

By the time I get my poultry building finished (heaven knows when they will be) I won't have any chickens to put in it!!

I think I am going to reconsider some of the breeds I was going to breed. I think I'm mainly going to work with the Sussex, my Seramas, and then the Orpingtons. I'm very fond of my Black Orps, but I would like all the Orpington colors.

~Aspen​

I have 2 Lavender Orps I love them.

 

[Jloeffler]

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Maybe it's his shoes? Are they heavy duty work boots? My chickens HATE those things and fly at the knees of the wearer. (Hey, they're D'uccles, that's as high as they can get on a short run)

We checked. He's worn shoes with socks and flip flops. However, he does go out to collect eggs and talkmto them, but he almost never handles them. I think it may be a testosterone battle of some kind. I think he may need to start handling them so the roo knows who's in charge. Does that make sense?

A rainbow of orpingtons would be a very pretty sight to come home to! It's amazing how many colors orps come in. I do have to say that I am extremely jealous of what you do have. Right now I have two ten by ten pens each with it's own coop. My LF are in one and the bantams in the other. I have nine chicks in a brooder in the garage and NO IDEA where I'm going to be putting them... {sigh}. We only live on three quarters of an acre in a rural neighborhood. So, no free ranging. Someday I would like to own more land and have a couple of good size pens where I can divide breeding groups. We'll see, I guess!

 

[Cass]

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Maybe it's his shoes? Are they heavy duty work boots? My chickens HATE those things and fly at the knees of the wearer. (Hey, they're D'uccles, that's as high as they can get on a short run)

We checked. He's worn shoes with socks and flip flops. However, he does go out to collect eggs and talkmto them, but he almost never handles them. I think it may be a testosterone battle of some kind. I think he may need to start handling them so the roo knows who's in charge. Does that make sense?

A rainbow of orpingtons would be a very pretty sight to come home to! It's amazing how many colors orps come in. I do have to say that I am extremely jealous of what you do have. Right now I have two ten by ten pens each with it's own coop. My LF are in one and the bantams in the other. I have nine chicks in a brooder in the garage and NO IDEA where I'm going to be putting them... {sigh}. We only live on three quarters of an acre in a rural neighborhood. So, no free ranging. Someday I would like to own more land and have a couple of good size pens where I can divide breeding groups. We'll see, I guess!

Are the chicks banties or LF? I put my LF chicks with my bantams and it worked out wonderful. Seems the bantams have "short man syndrome" and don't take any grief from any of the LF, since they grew up with them. The Bantams put the LF roos in their place, even tho the roos could just sit on them to subdue them.

 

[Jloeffler]

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We checked. He's worn shoes with socks and flip flops. However, he does go out to collect eggs and talkmto them, but he almost never handles them. I think it may be a testosterone battle of some kind. I think he may need to start handling them so the roo knows who's in charge. Does that make sense?

A rainbow of orpingtons would be a very pretty sight to come home to! It's amazing how many colors orps come in. I do have to say that I am extremely jealous of what you do have. Right now I have two ten by ten pens each with it's own coop. My LF are in one and the bantams in the other. I have nine chicks in a brooder in the garage and NO IDEA where I'm going to be putting them... {sigh}. We only live on three quarters of an acre in a rural neighborhood. So, no free ranging. Someday I would like to own more land and have a couple of good size pens where I can divide breeding groups. We'll see, I guess!

Are the chicks banties or LF? I put my LF chicks with my bantams and it worked out wonderful. Seems the bantams have "short man syndrome" and don't take any grief from any of the LF, since they grew up with them. The Bantams put the LF roos in their place, even tho the roos could just sit on them to subdue them.

I can just picture that!!

the chicks are D'Uccles and I have no roo in the LF pen since I had to cull my attack roo for vicious behavior.
I'd like to breed the D'Uccles so that might actually work.. . Definitely worth thinking over, thanks Cass!