Hi, my name is _____ and I'm addicted

[youngbiddy]

to hatching chickens.

I had Lavender Orps in the bator the day after my first batch hatched, and Ameraucanas, Salmon Faverolles, Cuckoo Marans, and some of my own mix have joined them, since. And I just caught myself cruising eBay and the BYC Auction page. Is there a gum I can chew? A patch I can put on? Hypno-therapy, maybe?

 

[pete55]

Oh Lord another addict

Join the club

The only cure's a power cut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gryeyes]

Join the madding crowd!

We especially hang out in this forum, but there are a couple of other Hatchaholic and Chickaholic threads in Pictures of My Flock and in the Social Section, in Random Ramblings. You'll be able to find the threads, easily.

I was hooked when the very first chick emerged from an egg I was incubating (with a few others). Miracle! How could one NOT be hooked!

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

The cheeping in the incubator brings this Spring's total to 82 chicks hatched and 3 more hatches to go!

I did give away 8 OEGB chicks and I had one chick die....

I'm building my breeder flock of show birds and diving off the deep end into bantam WYandottes

ETA: I have learned the art of the staggering hatches and my Sportsman is a dream!

 

[youngbiddy]

I've got it so bad it took me a while to even notice that this forum is only a fraction of what goes on here on BYC. I didn't even look at the others till I realized there was a forum devoted to auctions..and then breeds. I'm hip deep in the Faverolles thread, the Marans thread, the Imported English Orpingtons thread, and the Icelandic chickens thread. I'm a speed reader, but some of them have over a thousand pages of posts. It almost keeps me off eBay.

Almost.

 

[paddock36]

and welcome to the group.

 

[youngbiddy]

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Ooh, bantam Wyandottes..those must be gorgeous.

Oh crap, don't do that to me. Don't get me hooked on another breed/type of chicken I can't live without.
It's cruel. Cruel, I tell you!

Got pics?

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

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Ooh, bantam Wyandottes..those must be gorgeous.

Oh crap, don't do that to me. Don't get me hooked on another breed/type of chicken I can't live without.
It's cruel. Cruel, I tell you!

Got pics?

I got started on them with some badly marked hatchery chicks.... and let me tell you.... NOTHING detracts from the pure awesomeness of bantam Wyandottes. I have dozens of chicks from Andy Anderson in my brooders and I can't wait for them to grow up!

This is a hatchery "Columbian", but I still love him. The Wyandottes free range and come running when they see me and will even try to follow me into the house.

 

[BellevueOmlet]

lol, i love all of the addicts on this site. My wife is lucky because we cannot have more than 6 chickens where we live but I am addicted to the chickens I have and spend more time with them than I do with my wife, and my wife is hot - what is wrong with me. I build something new for them every week and keep building add-ons to their coop. I would say they are the best treated chickens in the world if I was not connected to BYC, where everyone is an addict, and people even exceed me with their love of chickens.

Have fun with your hatching, that is awesome.

 

[youngbiddy]

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I'm going to tell you a secret. <looks around, lowers voice to unearthly whisper> I'm technically only supposed to have five. I made pals with the Animal Control guy and he wrote out my permit for the 9 I had. I've got more in the brooder, and more coming, but I'm keeping a select *cough* few and selling the rest.