I'm a bad, bad girl...

[Blisschick]

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Actually, he's pretty handy even though he's a techophile. He runs a computer consultation/repair business, so he's in demand.

I wonder if my son would object to new parental units??

 

[LoneCowboy]

I'm going to have to get over the habit I'm afraid. I was checking on Ebay for hatching eggs, and people are selling them for shipment in Jan and Feb already. UGH!

Besides that, they are all so expensive. I'm really bummed, got to get a roo or something. DH will kill me if I spend more money on eggs right now.

 

[Blisschick]

The first set same today!

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[gritsar]

Guess we won't be seeing blisschick around for awhile. She's too busy snuggling with her new eggs.

 

[justusnak]

I love this thread....I just sat here nodding my head, and giggling the whole time I was reading. DH is in his chair..asked..." whats so funny?" I told him I was reading post's on here, and was going to tell him what I was reading, he cut me off and said.. " Oh, you and your crazy chicken friends!" CRAZY?? I dont think so...just because I have a 3 week old in the bathroom, with 2 bob white quail for company, sitting next to the bator with 10 eggs ready to hatch on the 8th of Dec...im NOT crazy! I caught him talking to the little rooroo in the bathroom..." Dam, you are getting big there guy..better slow down, or we will have to put you in another brooder" HA HA!! BUSTED!!

 

[tazcat70]

Well my DH is the same way....

Last night I went to a chicken auction. I have gone before and not bought anything. But last night I bought 6 doz eggs and 2 bantam hens. I think a blue wyandotte (all blue) and an a black andalusion (sp?) or a minorca. Her ears are just starting to turn white. But mainly I wanted the BLUE one. My kids were in the car because it was COLD and I brought them to the car and they said "Dad is going to kill you!"

I am still alive and he knows.

Funny that you ask how he found out.

He works 3rd shift and was gone when I got home. I snuck the evidence in the house and put them in my son's room. (Where I have the incubator warming up.)

I went to get the mail and his 4 mo old puppy runs out of the house. I go out to get her and when I come in he is walking to my son's BR. One of the cats had found the girls cage and blue is making a racket!

Darn, I am busted......but wait........

He says..."Chickens in the house Tonya? Really?"

Me : I had to..

Him: why...

Me: Because they weren't acting right.

Him: Oh OK (he looks at blue hen) she looks like something has gotten to her. Did that happen in here or out there?

Me: Out there. (she looks like she has had interaction with a roo)

Him: When are you taking them back out?

Me: Soon

Him: Ok


He turns to go back to bed.

Me: Honey, I have to come clean.


He looks at hens, cage and light bulb comes on....

Him: Really Tonya? Two more chickens?


He walks out the BR door not noticing the eggs by the incubator.

The day we were to put up the tree I was building an incubator.... How bad do I have it? What is the cure?

Tonya


edited for spelling errors...

 

[Blisschick]

I wasn't expecting the box to be at the shop today, since I thought they were going to be mailed today. (No big deal, Jen, you just enabled me a little sooner, is all.

) If they came during the week, I would have been at the door to intercept the mail lady, but as it was, my son calls me. "Mom, you have a box of eggs here. Something about live embryos on the box." I told him to sit them on the table, that I would be there for them later. When I picked them up, DH was working at the bench. "Show quality eggs," I told him. "You need to sell some chickens," he says. "I suppose you used my money to buy them, huh?" I didn't even bother answering that question. He'll be eating the eggs soon enough. He won't have to buy those.

Tazcat, you reminded me of what I did a two springs back. I went to buy feed, and of course they had the tub out with all the chicks in it. They didn't have any boxes to put the chicks in, so I had them put five in a paper bag. When I got home, I walked straight past him out to the chicken coop. He thought I had some kind of feed for them. I already had some chicks in the coop, so he didn't realize that I added the extra five in. I wasn't until they were a few months old I told him what I did, but by then, it didn't make any difference.

 

[turnerstar31]

OMG I have never laughed so hard ever. i am sitting here telling my dad all these and we are having a good laugh. Anywho no problem here my da loves his chickens the more the merrier in fact it was around september that i had given up hatchign eggs for the season and one of his favortie hens had started a nest that was so full of eggs that he made me put them in the bator to start and I hatched out some beautiful babies from it. lol it is so bad that we now need to stay away from the feed store during the spring because when we go together chicks are bound to be coming home. my brother on the other hand just shakes his head and walks the other way while me and my dad are petting and talking to our new little editions to the flock.

 

[SloCrevs]

LOL, I'm good for now too. My stepmom is just as hooked as I am. I have to say I've been a good influence on her! I've gotten her to the point where she's the new poultry leader for our 4H group. I've got 22 eggs in the bator right now..Seramas. My Dad loves our chickens, even though he pretends not to. He goes out and talks to them, and when he's working in the back yard(remodeling the house), he picks up my little bros buff brahma and cuddles with her. All our birds are bantams except for my small flock of Crevecoeurs, which I'll be adding to in January! As soon as this hatch is over, I'm loading it up with Crevecoeur chicks, since they're winter layers.


As for my male counterpart right now, he's in love. I've got him babysitting the incubator when I go out of town next weekend. He called to cancel all his plans so he could "watch them". I told him as long as he kept an eye on the humidity and unplug the turner sunday, we're fine. He also comes and stays at our house while we're gone so he can "play with the fuzzies". He also freaked out the day I told him I was getting more eggs, and got all excited and high-pitched. Wait until I call him @ 6:30 am to tell him they're hatching! That'll be an interesting morning...Parents wake up and come downstairs and he's here w/me and the bator...

 

[gritsar]

Only reason I'm gonna haunt the feed stores come spring is to find some ducks to disguise as chickens. I am not allowed to have ducks, nope nope nope. And I will not be bringing home more chicks than what I have already agreed to order from the hatchery. He said FOUR chicks MAX. Let's see 4 chicks in SO's terms, plugged into the handy dandy BYC chick count converter...that's 12 chicks right? or did I forget to carry a one?