Passing Fancy or Long-Term Activity

[Elphaba2140]

I started looking into chickens 18 months ago. Got my first chicks the end of March last year. Hatched my first chicks in May of last year. Processed my first birds last Summer. Walked through 4 foot drifts of snow and brought them hot water to melt the ice all through the winter. Ordered my chicks for this spring in February this year cuz I wanted them sooner. Just finished processing the roo babies. After all this my DH has decide they are probably here to stay and is building me a permanent coop. I think this will be a long term thing. We are already talking 4H and the grandkids are only 3!

 

[ChickLover98]

I've been chickening for 1 year and 3 months on the 24th!

 

[char259]

'whew' almost two months!

I love my chicks - no plans on giving them up.

 

[fishnet1971]

37 years and counting. I 'ran away' when I was 5. Gee, I ran to the chicken coop with my little hobo bag and stuffed teddy. the teddybear went out the door when i started to snuggle with the girls.

life happened as well for about 10 years, then I was able to get back into them and will NEVER look back. I dunno Ranchhand, I am still not sure if I am a longtermer at this many years yet......

Vacations? who gets vacations??

 

[gryeyes]

Although I was "late" in acquiring the chicken-keeping urge, I now cannot imagine why I didn't get into this years ago! And I, too, will never be without chickens, ducks and geese as long as I am able-bodied enough to care for them.

I bought my first feed-store chicks on October 1, 2009.

This is NOT a passing fancy for me.

The setbacks which occur are sometimes daunting, but not enough to give up keeping and caring for chickens. Which I name and will not be processing for food, ever.

 

[ChicKat]

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Hi CarolJ,

I'm new since April--and I echo the sentiments of lots of posters here. I don't want to be without them in the future. They are facinating, and sometimes you could spend the entire day just watching them (if you had the time for that)--- but other times, they are fairly 'self-sufficient' providing their basic needs are met. So you can have varying intensity of involvement. That said -- chicks require more attention than grown chickens.

Are you keeping them for pets and eggs? Once your chickens start to produce eggs, if they haven't already, you get even more addicted.

Best of luck with your decision. They may be more like cat and dog than like ceramics! :O)

 

[ChicKat]

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Hi Sourland,

Interesting post and insightful too. In a couple of days--> HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! big time. 70 is quite a milestone. (and all those years with feathered friends).

 

[columbiacritter]

After I built the 4th coop for my DH I came to accept that chickens were not a passing fancy for him. He's had to go out of town on a job for almost a month and is bugging me several times a day for updates on his latest hatchlings. I told him if he bought anymore eggs off EBAY this year I was scramblign them for breakfast.

 

[fishnet1971]

 

[pawsplus]

I've had chickens for 6+ years now--since Clarice wandered onto my property as a stray and she's still going strong.