Incubators Anonymous

[TeaChick]

Well thank you! I have had so much happen so fast and furious that I am hoping for some relief in a routine. All I know is that this is something I REALLY want to do!

I know what you mean. We always have a lot going on too.
Routines have helped a lot. We don't have jobs where someone tells us when to be in to work or tells us when we can go home. We work from home and keep the farm and homeschool the children. With all that going on, we have to keep ourselves on schedule or nothing will get done. It's not easy and there are times we just don't want to get out of bed, so we schedule those kinds of days into our week and look forward to the weekends. PM me some time, if you want to talk.

 

[darkbluespace]

I know what you mean. We always have a lot going on too.
Routines have helped a lot. We don't have jobs where someone tells us when to be in to work or tells us when we can go home. We work from home and keep the farm and homeschool the children. With all that going on, we have to keep ourselves on schedule or nothing will get done. It's not easy and there are times we just don't want to get out of bed, so we schedule those kinds of days into our week and look forward to the weekends. PM me some time, if you want to talk.

That sounds like my life... working from home, managing the "farm" (really just a large garden and animals) and homeschooling... still working on the routine part. I'm an artist and routine just doesn't come naturally

 

[calichicken]

You're not doing a good job of enabling with this. That's okay. I'll edit your post for you to make it more hatch-a-holic friendly.

(or

, you'll have to let me know which one)

One of the greatest dangers pleasures is that the incubator itself, can multiply... first you have one and it is so nice and sweet, but then you look again and you have 2 or 3 or more. Some may call themselves "hatchers", but don't be fooled bothered by that; they're helping you!

Better?




Now that's the kind of enabling I'm talkin' about!!!

LOL...seriously dying here reading all of this!!! What a great group of hatch-a-holics were are

I don't have anyone to enable me. I do a really good job of enabling myself.

Sure you do...a whole thread here read to assist and enable

 

[calichicken]

That's approximately my DH's philosophy on my chickens. It extends to what he said to our daughters this morning, "Your mother would have a whole farm if she could."
We have build (or rebuilt) four coops/runs/pens/??? We're planning on "practicing" by building a small coop/run/tractor thing for the three bantams we have.
I want a coffee/tea cup that says something like that!!! =)

Mine says that exact same thing all the time..LOL! But he also includes the fact that I would name all the animals, therefore we could NEVER eat any of them

which is totally true

We have bantams for pets...tiny eggs are a bonus

 

[gander007]

Well I cleaned up and put away my incubator after having it running from January till the middle of August then yesterday one of my young pullets that has been missing for several weeks showed up with some new additions to present to me

Ya she just wont let me stop

gander007

 

[calichicken]

Well I cleaned up and put away my incubator after having it running from January till the middle of August then yesterday one of my young pullets that has been missing for several weeks showed up with some new additions to present to me

Ya she just wont let me stop

gander007

Congrats!!!!! She fully supports your hatch-a-holism

 

[gander007]

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Oh she is defiantly and the problem is she is good at it but just a pullet herself .......

 

[Bazy]

I know what you mean. We always have a lot going on too.
Routines have helped a lot. We don't have jobs where someone tells us when to be in to work or tells us when we can go home. We work from home and keep the farm and homeschool the children. With all that going on, we have to keep ourselves on schedule or nothing will get done. It's not easy and there are times we just don't want to get out of bed, so we schedule those kinds of days into our week and look forward to the weekends. PM me some time, if you want to talk.

Well, I have rebuilt a coop, built a new coop, hatched some eggs, hatched some more eggs that didn't turn out so well, had a broody hen and gave her 6 purchased fertile eggs, had a snake get one (I got the snake!) had her break one (it was alive ) Had her hatch one that she threw out of the nest..so I put it in the brooder and it got yolk sack infection and I had to learn euthanization fast ..and now have about 30 eggs in my NEW incubator with the automatic turner and fan and 3 eggs I'm not sure about the viability in my OLD incubator that I installed the fan kit on after the last disaster hatch....and am contemplating ordering 24 pure breed hatching egg assortment when the incubator is free on the 19th.

The first 16 Ameraucana/Aracuanas hatched are doing FANTASTIC! They climb all over me when I go in their run, and are complete sweethearts! I will keep five and sell the rest once I can sex them..the 8 French Marans from the second hatch are all keepers until sexed, and the 30 or so in the bators are pure mottled/spangled English Orpington and Jubilee Orpington.

All this since I got my first two pullets on July 1st. We got exactly 8 eggs from one Ameraucana before she went broody. My husband doesn't understand why we have to buy eggs when we have 32 chickens.

Anyway, I'm desperate for things to settle, but I will do whatever I have to to make it happen! I just love these chickens, and especially my Australorp Rooster who was supposed to be a hen. I don't know what to do with him, but he doesn't fall into the plan and he is so sweet and pretty! ugh!

 

[darkbluespace]

LOL...seriously dying here reading all of this!!! What a great group of hatch-a-holics were are

Sure you do...a whole thread here read to assist and enable

...and I thought this forum was going to help me with my "problem"... I may have to take some of the following under consideration...

Signs and symptoms of incubating addiction

• You’ve lost control over your incubating. You often incubate more than you wanted to, for longer than you intended, or despite telling yourself you wouldn’t.
• You want to quit incubating, but you can’t. You have a persistent desire to cut down or stop your incubating, but your efforts to quit have been unsuccessful.
• You have given up other activities because of incubating. You’re spending less time on activities that used to be important to you (hanging out with family and friends, going to the gym) because of your incubating.
• Incubating takes up a great deal of your energy and focus. You spend a lot of time incubating, thinking about it, or recovering from its effects ( figuring out what to do with all the chicks).
• You incubate even though you know it’s causing problems. Again, trying to figure out what to do with all the chicks!

If you have a incubating problem, you may deny it by:

• Drastically underestimating how much you incubate.
• Downplaying the consequences of your incubating.
• Complaining that family and friends are exaggerating the issue.

• Hiding evidence of your incubating activities.

 

[Yorkshire Coop]

...and I thought this forum was going to help me with my "problem"... I may have to take some of the following under consideration...
Signs and symptoms of incubating addiction

• You’ve lost control over your incubating. You often incubate more than you wanted to, for longer than you intended, or despite telling yourself you wouldn’t.
• You want to quit incubating, but you can’t. You have a persistent desire to cut down or stop your incubating, but your efforts to quit have been unsuccessful.
• You have given up other activities because of incubating. You’re spending less time on activities that used to be important to you (hanging out with family and friends, going to the gym) because of your incubating.
• Incubating takes up a great deal of your energy and focus. You spend a lot of time incubating, thinking about it, or recovering from its effects ( figuring out what to do with all the chicks).
• You incubate even though you know it’s causing problems. Again, trying to figure out what to do with all the chicks!

If you have a incubating problem, you may deny it by:

• Drastically underestimating how much you incubate.
• Downplaying the consequences of your incubating.
• Complaining that family and friends are exaggerating the issue.

• Hiding evidence of your incubating activities.

LOL..... That's me all over. Since joining this forum I think I have got worse with my addiction it has enabled me more.