Expert chicken enablers needed

[SpotTheCat]

I currently only have 2 chickens and we want to get more this year but the very sad news is...

I lost my chicken motivation years ago and never regained it. No chicken maths! No chicken projects!

Now I am trying very hard to get the motivation and enjoyment from it again. This is in random rambling because I have no clue what you would even post for this subject but I am sure the expert chicken enablers will work it out! And it doesn't really matter if it goes "off topic"

Recently rats have managed to tunnel into the quail runs, thankfully we had very few casualties. Currently the chickens are in one of the quail runs and the quails are in the chicken run. I am planning on digging up the quail runs floor and putting wire in (it has a wire skirt already) but I currently do not have the physical strength to actually do it

Better news we finally put up a shed to turn into a chicken/quail coop. It will have a partition and be attach to 2 separate runs. It still does needs some important things done and the interior planned

 

[MROO]

The best way to scratch my chicken itch is to sneak in to our local TSC. I say "sneak" deliberately because my kids won't allow me to go in unsupervised during Chick Days. They're afraid I'll come home with more ... and they're often correct!

 

[SpotTheCat]

The best way to scratch my chicken itch is to sneak in to our local TSC. I say "sneak" deliberately because my kids won't allow me to go in unsupervised during Chick Days. They're afraid I'll come home with more ... and they're often correct!

I am sure if we had something like that here my mother would come back with plenty

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

That’s easy! Just get MurrayMcMurray to send you a catalog. I have never ordered chicks from me but they send me one every year and it drives me crazy!

 

[SpotTheCat]

That’s easy! Just get MurrayMcMurray to send you a catalog. I have never ordered chicks from me but they send me one every year and it drives me crazy!

I don't know whether there are any places in the uk that send out catalogues

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

I am surprised McMurray still does. And they do it early in the year when I’m not even thinking about chickens.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

If you don’t have a Tractor Supply or similar where you can go look at the fluffy babies, maybe videos will help?

Here are some baby Australorps to get you started!

 

[azurbanclucker]

I feel ya. I had lost the urge for several years and we were down to our last 2 girls. Our local feed store got in some BCM chicks and that sparked my chicken math again, after years of "meh". I think part of it may also be the cathartic dopamine hit of chillin' with my peeps in these stressful times.

Maybe it will awaken after some time off for you as well.

 

[SpotTheCat]

I feel ya. I had lost the urge for several years and we were down to our last 2 girls. Our local feed store got in some BCM chicks and that sparked my chicken math again, after years of "meh". I think part of it may also be the cathartic dopamine hit of chillin' with my peeps in these stressful times.

Maybe it will awaken after some time off for you as well.

I hope so! It's just hard to keep up with everything that needs doing without the motivation. Looking through byc is helping a bit

 

[2ndTink]

@BlueTheBrahma @Marie2020 we need some UK help over here!

@TwoCrows @Debbie292d @wrathsfarm @GreenJay

We have a serious situation of the chicken doldrums! Bring reinforcements!