I caved in!!!!!!

[Chickenaddict]

I told myself i wasn't gonna hatch any more chicks until spring. Day before yesterday i decided i couldn't wait any more even with 3 full brooders and a garage full of chickens due to the nasty subzero temps. I put 4 "designer eggs" (mutts) under a broody cochin and another 5 serama eggs under another broody. Now to build another brooder. Yikes i can't stop!!!!

 

[spook]

I feel for you...I am insane as well. After all this time I have broke down and am building an incubator. Dang all you hatchaholics! I should never have listened, read or felt for you bad bad chicken people.

Now I'm blaming all this behavior on YOU today

! Take care and stinx to be you! ha ha ha

 

[Chickenaddict]

LOL yep it stinks alright

my house is full of babies yet on top of the garage. Sitting on my hands obviously didn't work

 

[spook]

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(lot worse things to be blamed for! ha ha- soon you can point and laugh at me!) Good luck to your hatch, what type of incubator and percentage of hatch do you seem to average?

 

[Chickenaddict]

I do it the old fashioned way, since the girls decided to go broody on me im gonna put them free loaders to good use

i get excellent hatches using broodies. If i had an incubator i'd be in bigggg trouble.

 

[suenrob]

Yea, I too thought I was done for a while, that is until someone local posted hatching eggs for 4.00 a dozen!!!!! (I really need to delete craigs list from my favorites)
The choices are RIR's and Leghorns. Couldn't choose so of coarse I have to have both....and whats the sence in a half full bator, so I talked my neighbor into getting some too.....and so the addiction continues.....
Good luck to all of us!!!!

 

[Chickenaddict]

Don't ya just love those crazy deals lol, I mean $4 a dozen sheesh thats cheap I have sold mine for $5 a dozen (mutt eggs). Altho recently I sold an 18 pk of hatching eggs to a fellow BYC'er for $5

. Correction on the first post its now up to 7 serama eggs.... somebody stop me!!!!!

Man they outta (sp)? make a pill or something you can take to prevent these temptations.

 

[Jenski]

So you folks are already getting broody hens in January?





Rats. I have been watching my bantam cochins day by day, and . . . nuthin.

 

[Chickenaddict]

I had 6 broodies all at once but i broke 3, the other 3 wouldn't stop and have been broody for over a month which is one big reason why i gave in despite my poor hubbys plea to wait til spring.