The addiction is too strong...

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I posted a topic last month or so about how I was getting out of chickens because I was getting into exotics and such. Well I got a trio of barred leghorn bantams for the crele phoenix project, I didnt think I would get into them or anything because they are 'just another chicken'.
Well I lied to myself, they are awesome and I have to breed them and improve them in addition to using them for the creles. So I now have several pheasants and exotic ducks and now and back on my drug of choice: chickens with dun laced wyandotte bantams and barred leghorn bantams. I will post pics when I get the chance, its still frosty outside.

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

We told ourselves only 6 chickens...we now have 14. Then we said...ok 14 isn't bad but NO bantams! I couldn't help myself I had to order mille fleur D'uccles. Than bantam cochins (my personal fav) and then I HAD to have silkies! We are now up to 28! And I want MORE! Were going to a show in Menominee Oct 4th and I will be coming home with something..prob more bantam cochins

Good luck with your addiction!

 

[lockedhearts]

I only wanted 4 last year for eggs. Check my sig line, yes it says 41 plus all those eggs.
Plus I am going to a 4 H Chicken Sale on Oct 11.....

Addicted?????? No Not Me

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

My addiction started long ago with one mutt rooster, then I had to get some hens for him, then I looked at hatchery catalogs and had a mixed flock then I decided to work with plymouth rocks. I had them for a while but liked wyandottes better. I then got a partidge wyandotte bantam cockerel and liked him, looked for a year for some hens and finally found some so we got them. I bred them for awhile and saw dun laced wyandotte bantams at a show and had to have some. I couldnt find any so I got dun wyandottes instead, then I got whites, then silver laced. I figured I could make my own dun laced with the duns and silver laced so I did. As soon as I got the first cross from the duns I sold them. Then this spring when I was on eggbid I saw some neat exotic ducks so I emailed breeders and finally found someone, he was going out of business so I got a great deal on 3 pairs and a pair of cackler geese. Then I was on craigslist and saw amhearst pheasants and mom liked them so we went to pick them up and ended up getting them, a pair of yellow goldens, and a pair of silvers. Then the guy offered me the other 24 for $300 so I had to take it. Now I am building pens like crazy for them. Then I got the barred leghorns and love them.

 

[miss_jayne]

uhh...my husband said, "Sure, I think you could get 6 chickens. That would be fine."

that, my FlyingMonkeyPoop friend was in April of THIS year. Check my sig line...

 

[lockedhearts]

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Just give in to it..........

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Dang, 263! That is alot, you must be going through feed faster than we are.

I have decided that I cant stay away from chickens, they are too addicting. I tried to stay away but couldnt. I cant see why I even tried to stop.

 

[Katy]

I remember when I read your post I thought...how can he give up chickens....that will never last!

 

[TheOLDNewChick]