"Hi, my name is Jennifer..."

[warhorse]

THE TWELVE STEPS OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

1. We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.

4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.

6. Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.

12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.


Copyright, A.A. World Services, Inc. Rev.5

Certainly , someone has adapted this specifically to poultry?

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

THE TWELVE STEPS OF CHICKAHOLICS ANONYMOUS

1. We admitted we were powerless over poultry—that our flocks had become unmanageable.

2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity (however, this same Power created the chicken in the first place, so we're a little iffy on exactly what sanity should be and halfway think that perhaps the path to sanity involves more chickens).

3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to silkies.

4. Made a searching and fearless inventory of what breeds we have and what breeds we want to have.

5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to other chicken addicts our weakness to resist hatching more chicks.

6. Were entirely ready to remove all these defects of character (...but then ran into TSC for food and noticed the bin of chicks and had to bring "just one more home").

7. Humbly asked to remove our shortcomings by sending a Hovabator our way so we wouldn't have to wait on a broody to get in gear.

8. Made a list of all persons with eggs/chicks we want and became willing to paypal large sums of money to them all.

9. Made direct requests to such people wherever possible, in order to be first in line on the waiting list.

10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it by adding such needed chicks to the flock.

11. Sought through study and meditation to improve our knowledge base of chickens and through that knowledge lead others down a path to chicken love.

12. Having had a poultry awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to chickaholics everywhere, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

(This is totally meant in fun. No offense to the AA folks. I think they do an amazing job and are a wonderful organization.)

 

[chook pen jen]

Hi I am also Jennifer and I am so over chickens.Cured totally cured got rid of all my poultry ,did not need the hassle did not have the time....then oops & no its totally incurable

so enjoy

 

[conny63malies]

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Well then get tyrkeys or geese. OR maybe some guineas or quail. Nuddin is cuter than 50 little quail running like crazy in a tub.

 

[debilorrah]

The next step is to simply give up and give in - there is no help. Especially not here!

 

[jbowyer01]

Hi Jennifer, My name is Jennifer too. We should start a club for the Jennifers!

 

[Pumpkinpup]

Hi Jen!!! How's the Fuzz Man? Doin great I hope.
Here is an official welcome to the maddness that is BYC!

Just go with it and enjoy!!!

 

[Lunachick]

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That's very good CityGirl! I think I'll frame that. Enjoy the addiction Jennifer.

 

[Cetawin]

Well aadmission and acknowledgement are the first step....after that there is nothing....just the addiction.

the cute fuzzy butts get in their ugly awkward stage, new fuzzy butts arrive, they hit their ugly awkward stage, you order more chicks and repeat...continuously.

You will stop to make time to build the 4 new coops you will need and then you will order more chicks and on it continues.


You are basically SOL from this point.

There is no cure or therapy that works.


OH and P.S. - those 16 will be out of the tub in less than 2 weeks I have been there, done that and had to corral them. 21 in my tub at once.

 

[peckndirt]

Resistance is futile .... You will be assimilated into the flock.... To fight will only make you weaker..... Join us.... Jooiinn us