My name is Cindi, and I'm a chickenaholic. :)

[adstowe]

I posted a while back about giving away 2 pullets because I had too many and then turning around and getting 6 chicks, well now my little bantam X STD roo got snagged by a hawk, so I got an incubator to hatch out some of his eggs as his replacement (he was a great little roo) and then I picked up some ducklings, because who doesn't like ducklings? UGH! I have to stop. I see turkeys in my future...

 

[dfalco]

My son got me hooked. (A friend of his got him hooked.) He started with a couple chicks, and soon had so many he had no more room, so he came to my house, built a little coop, and put five chicks in it. They outgrew that tiny house, so I needed a solution. I looked at the kid's trampoline, and decided to make it into a pen. That was when my chicken habit started affecting my family. Soon I had my husband and son working out in the heat to turn a trampoline into a fort knox-esque pen, with a nice and proper coop attached. They worked for a week, hoping I would be satisfied. But that big, empty-looking coop only drove me further into my habit. I dragged grandchildren to Atwood's to justify buying more chicks. I began picking up chicken offers on Facebook. Soon chicks weren't enough. I brought home two ducks. And lastly, I admit to entering a granddaughter in a chicken scramble, and grooming her to catch chickens, just so I could bring home another chicken.

I really don't know where all this will lead.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

@adstowe I had turkey poults once. Never again. Durn things were so stupid they could drown looking at the sky rain. They were afraid of the mist coming off the river. They'd eat any and everything shiny, including each other's eyeballs. Never. Again.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

Chicks. The gateway fowl.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I wish I had the room for more chickens . I only have 16 (most of which are bantams) and a few (8) eggs under a broody hen. I have 3 smallish coops, one for the 8 roosters, one for the 8 hens, and another for the chicks.

 

[PD-Riverman]

Hey all,
I have a story about moving or not moving a broody from the flock.
About two weeks ago, one bo went broody and was sitting on 7 eggs in the main coop. I left her there for 5 days letting her get into a good Grove.
On the 6th day at 6pm, moved her into a single brooder box and pen. She paced to get out until it was dusk then I saw her sitting where I placed her eggs.
Next am, I looked and she had moved all the eggs out of the nest and spent the next day and half off the eggs.
I thought the eggs were dead so I disposed them and let her back with her flock. (Sad here cause I did break them open to see and all were embryos)
She went straight to the empty nest box she started at. I gave her a new clutch of eggs for a total of 10.
She had been brooding for 3_4 days.
I gathered the rest of the eggs from the coop, one of those was laying out from her box ( which has a good 3 inch lip).
Next morning I broke one of the eggs to cook and the egg had a lot of blood in it, it almost turned my stomach.
So........Tonite, I did an egg check on her and 2 of the eggs are gone.
I believe the bloody egg was one from her clutch.
Either she took it out or another hen got it when she was stretching her legs.
Either way I am a little concerned having this happen again, one for myself but I sell eggs.
The eggs are dark brown welsummer eggs and I am not good judge of candeling them.
So, my story is for those wondering to move a broody or not.
Even with this event I did leave her where she is at as I want more chicks, next time I won't keep eggs I find near her clutch.

Thoughts?

Hey, Simplify

If You get ready to set your next hen and would like to move her----PM me first before you set her--if you want some info on moving/setting her. I have set and moved over 150 hens to private hatching pens in 3 years alone(did not keep up with it before that) and have YET to have one to reject the move. Its all about how/when you do it----I might have one to reject it one day but so far so good.

 

[NorthTexasWink]

So last night I dreamed I was on a game show where you had to match hens with the eggs they laid. I did well and got into the bonus round! But the bonus round hens were all EE . . .

 

[adstowe]

@adstowe I had turkey poults once. Never again. Durn things were so stupid they could drown looking at the sky rain. They were afraid of the mist coming off the river. They'd eat any and everything shiny, including each other's eyeballs. Never. Again.

I need to deal with these baby ducks before I consider getting anything else anyway. I had some years ago. I knew they were messy little things, but I don't remember them being quite this bad. Brooding chicks is a breeze compared to ducklings.

 

[Chickassan]

Son of a biscuit! The neighbor is trying to turn me on to the exotic stuff...Swedish flower hen! I can't do SFH man, faverolles gives me the twitches and it's not nearly as hard. Two for ten though....such a bargain! I could resale not sample the product that just might work!

 

[CapricornFarm]

@adstowe I had turkey poults once. Never again. Durn things were so stupid they could drown looking at the sky rain. They were afraid of the mist coming off the river. They'd eat any and everything shiny, including each other's eyeballs. Never. Again.

Really? They ate each others' eyeballs? That is gross! Ok, turkeys are off my list. I love this thread! I had the chicken addiction so bad that i built coops in small cities on our 10 acre farm. And i refused to count chickens because if you didn't count them, you never had to deny how many there are