Let's see...What got me hooked....
This site PROBABLY!!!! actually that's why I got my incubator....
I have always had animals of some sort or another growing up. If it wasn't pet animals (cats dogs rabbits fist etc.) It was rescue/wild animals. We had large fish from the river we saved....Went fishing, caught large fish, brought them home to live. We would find baby birds on the ground, bring them home and raise them until old enough to live on own. We had all kinds of animals. That was when we lived in town.
Then we moved to the country. Started getting horses, donkeys, goats, chickens, ducks, geese, guinnea's. You name it we had the farm. Everything but the cow and pig...hahaha That was the life when growing up.
Fast forward.................
5 years ago we 'bought the farm'
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We had it sit with no animals except our dogs and barn cats. Hubby got deployed and I wanted animals. So along came our first pot belly pig~~ Moo .... He is such a great animal. None of the others even compare to him....Well after hubby came home along came...3 more pot belly pigs. Then we started talking about getting some cattle.
But needed to clean our pastures out a bit first. So we decided to get sheep. They are wonderful animals. After we seen what the sheep could do we were hooked on them as well. We were informed he was going to deploy again, and I just couldn't see myself out chasing a 1500 pound cow down the road. So what seemed more logical than to get MORE sheep...And that's what we did.
Having a farm now it just seemed logical to have birds. Along game my geese. Then the ducks and guinnea's. Next were the feeder pigs.
AND THEN THE CHICKENS. THEY SHOWED UP IN SWARMS AND FLOCKS. Got a few from here and there. Swaps and friends/family. It just kept growing and growing. Then along came our goat and llama and peacocks, and any other animal that might need a home.....
Another fast forward........a little less than a month ago I found this site (from another that I am on) and I became completely 100% hooked on the chickens. I even went and got my first incubator.
Have always had farm eggs from my mom, and now that we have our own chickens we have our own eggs. That is an added plus for me to keep them...and get more of course. Although it took hubby almost 10 years to eat a farm egg, he is starting to come around.
I guess that was a long drawn out story of how I got hooked on chickens. sorry for the long read.
Shawna