I need some advice pleeeeeeeeeeze!!!!!!

[suzettex5]

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I don't mean to be an enabler! honest!

I DO!!

 

[joedie]

Since you're asking for opinions, I personally wouldn't get them now, but that's just because I'm probaby too lazy to do any extra work in the winter! I can't stand the dust they create brooding them in the basement.

 

[yomama]

Well, I just checked the website, and now they are out of some of the breeds I wanted!!

Guess I'll have to be patient and wait till spring. I'm not good at being patient. Guess part of the reason I wanted to get them now, is I am having hip replacement surgery next spring/ summer, and I didn't want the chicks to be an inconvenience to my husband. Oh well, probably a good idea not to get them anyway, since I don't have the new coop built yet. We'll see how things go. I do tend to be very impulsive and change my mind on a very regular basis

Thanks again to everyone who chimed in, I appreciate it!

 

[yomama]

Well, as I stated in my above post, I do change my mind alot. I just ordered some more chicks!!!!!!!!! I must be crazy! They didn't have all the breeds I wanted, but they had a mojority of them, so I was able to order most of the breeds I wanted. I have to say that I have one of the most wonderfullest husbands in the whole world. I told him that building the new coop and getting some more chicks could be my birthday(my birthday is this month) and Christmas presents, and he was totally cool with it. The good thing is where I live, we don't really get into nasty weather till about late November. We get alot of rain, but nothing too cold. We are going out this coming weekend to get started on supplies for the coop! I'm so excited.

It's funny because my husband joked about having pet chickens in the laundry room all winter. Thanks everyone for the advice, guess I knew what I was going to do all along, just needed some fellow chicken people to tell me I wasn't TOO crazy.

God help me, I'm addicted!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Louise's Country Closet]

More chickies!!!

You sound sooo much like me LOL I would have already made up my mind long before I asked anyone about it hahaha And you are definitely not too crazy.. at least, not in the insane way.. now crazy for chickens on the other hand....

Anyway.. just means that in the Spring you'll have to get the other chicks you want so bad

 

[yomama]

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I was thinking that too!

 

[gryeyes]

I'm gonna incubate (and hopefully HATCH) my way all the way through Winter to Spring into Summer... and so on and so forth.

Just can't stop myself. I'm finding that those I do hatch from shipped eggs from breeders - not necessarily FOR breeding, just for the different breeds I want - produce healthier chicks because there's no shipping shock of the day old chicks or extended periods of time in big bins at feed stores. Not a single me-hatched chick has suffered from pasty butt, for one thing.

I'm fascinated by the miracle of life emerging from something I would normally cook and eat. Just amazing.

Now, if eggs weren't available, I'd probably stop for some period of time. But some chickens DO lay eggs year-round, some, somewhere, and those people offer 'em in auctions.

THEY'RE the enablers! As are the HATCHERIES! Let's blame THEM!

 

[BunnyMomma]

Congratulations on your decision!
I ordered some silkie eggs to hatch this fall and I plan on having my 3 year old grandaughter help me. It is so much more entertaining to be around chicks than to be bored with depressing world events. "Chicken Therapy" is the best medicine!
We should have chicks by Thanksgiving! My DH is also talking about building a new coop this spring. He loves them almost as much as I do!

Yeah Chickies!

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

I would just make sure I have somewhere to put them. We are ordering some cornish in november and we are building the new coop now. That way I wont have to worry about anything, but I can still baby them.

 

[sheila3935]

We are adding on to our coop tomorrow as I have 5 week olds in the brooder now that have to go outside soon getting to big in there and because I have eggs due to hatch Saturday. I started out this may with 1 coop and 8 chickens RIR's got 6 10 day old barred rock 5 were roos rehomed 3 got 2 day olds 1 barred rock 1 black australorp both roos rehomed ordered 10 from Ideal 9 DOA other died 3 days later due to extreme heat in shipping. Got 7 from a farm 1 roo thats going to his new home soon. Got 4 naked necks 1 roo rehomed the roo and 1 pullet with him got 9 3 week olds 2 roos have to find a home for 1 am keeping the banyard mix roo. And have 23 RIR eggs in the incubator so dont ask me if you should get chicks or not.