What hooked you on chickens?

[Justino]

well, i grew up with chickens so um yeah/!

and a lot of my familly had chickens as kids! my great grandma even let her pet 1 inside with her and the neibors though she was crazy and would say "is the chicken coop broken or what?" i cracked up when i heard that

 

[suenrob]

This forum!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[wynedot55]

had chickens an guienies off an on for years.then in 2000 i decided i wanted chickens again.so i started working towards getting them.

 

[LilPeeps]

Five years ago, a Mcmurray catalog was delivered to the wrong address haha. I fell in love with silkies and met Janet from Hattrick and got my first pair, Harry and Sally

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I have never been a huge bird fan. I am, however, an animal lover. I couldn't stand the thought of some innocent animal suffering for me to have eggs. So I got a few chickies. OMG!!! I never knew they would be so beautiful, intelligent, warm, friendly, PERFECT!!!! I fell in love. They are amazing little animals that have totally captured my heart!!!!

 

[love-my-wolves]

Well, my mom had them while I was a teen, but never thought of having them myself, and then I went to TSC. It's all their fault!!!

Also, my family kept telling me I must have a farm (I don't actually), and now I have the chicks to go with it!!!

 

[ibpboo]

When I was a small child my dad bought us chickens and they sat on our shoulders and they lived in the house. We named them, Rocky and Pepper, and I've loved chickens ever since!

 

[edster951]

used to have chickens as a kid.

Now I'm old enough to have them again.

Wanted a few for eggs for the family.

I now have 34 chooks.

They are cool to watch. All have personalities. Easy to keep. They increase thier numbers naturally (if you have a roo).

Did i say fun and easy to keep.

And I love they way they chase after you when you have a food bucket.

 

[Bec]

When I was about 10, I rescued 4 little chicks from the barn I was taking riding lessons at. This big giant rooster was beating them up so I went and got them, put them in my flannel shirt pockets and tried to hide them from my Dad when he came to pick me up. We were riding down the road and I turned up the radio so we couldnt here the peeping ....Wel along with the chickies,I had wooly bear caterpillars in there too...He looks over at me and saw an escapee!! It was a wooly bear so I thought I was safe...then he turned down the radio because he thought he heard peeping...Shorlty after that he saw my pockets jumping around..well it was too late to turn around and afetr lots and lots of pleading, he let me keep them over night and then we took them to a friends farm.
And so the addiction started...i was just able to have any until my hubby and I bought our own place....

 

[Run-A-Muck Ranch]

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