You spend at least twenty minutes a day looking at the posts on the incubating & hatching forum, when you don't have an incubator! And then you go check the price of hatching eggs, 'cause you just can't help it.
you know your addicted when,
u see a lil chick in the bator......so cute.....u can't resist.....u have to hold it.....u suddenly wake up with the chick under the covers too!
when you keep telling people you have a "few" chickens and then when you actually count them, the number gets so close to 100 that you abruptly stop counting and panic. But you keep telling people you just have a "couple" of chickens.
You dream about buying more chicks and chickens,
You actually call the hatchery and place an order while making
absolute certain the chicks arrive on the same day the eggs
in the bator hatch, with the excuse of needing to brood them
together. You already have 7 coop/pens and 1 chicken tractor
and your trying to build another to acommidate your flock of
almost 100 chickens and you only have less then 2 aceres of
ground. You find you have more in common with your chickens
than you do anything else
Or you buy a pint of nice blueberries (or watermelon, or anything) and sit on the porch eating them, tossing out lots of nice snacks for the birdies (chickies) too, thereby spending a LOT on groceries and replacement groceries!
I'm reading a book by Bob Tarte called "Enslaved by Ducks" which would fit this crowd very well. He starts out with a rabbit and ends up with a menagerie of ducks, turkeys, rabbits, parrots, doves, etc. and an insane schedule of care for them. HE would be a perfect candidate for BYC addiction groups. Don't even ask about his wife putting a nighty-night hat on their parrot and singing it songs for it to sleep every night!
P.S. Another good book is "Wesley the Owl" about a researcher who took in an owl in California and it lived with her for 19 years as she documented all its habits and characteristics for "science".