Comments on: Maybe It’s a Sickness

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:42:45 +0000

Do you mean Backyard Chickens? (That’s the only thing I could come up with from that acronym.) No, but I’ve heard of it.

By: Angie

Angie — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:08:38 +0000

Are you a member of BYC?

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sat, 09 May 2009 04:00:23 +0000

I think everyone should know that chickens are an addiction. We moved to the country because of them. I went from 6 in the city that were evicted by the city to 52 in the country. 1/2 in a hoop house 1/2 still in the brooder. I am truly addicted. Love the blog

By: KentuckyFarmGirl

KentuckyFarmGirl — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:33:13 +0000

I still count mine with a flashlight every night when they go to roost and mine have been free ranging for almost 2 years. Yes, I have lost a few but mostly they have been ok. I also have an obsession with MORE! MORE! MORE! I only got 5 chicks from the last incubation. My egg turner quit working and the electricity went out for part of a day so I was happy that I got at least 5! Now I have 2 dozen guineas eggs and added 2 1/2 dozen chicken eggs on day 7 so they would hatch at the same time ( May 22). Do you start your duck eggs and then add your hen eggs? I’m thinking duck eggs take 28 days like guineas, right? Good luck!

By: Jenny

Jenny — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:55:17 +0000

I think it is a sickness. I have almost thirty chicks in our laundry room right now from buying and hatching. We’ve got the same goal of free-ranging, but with only four adult hens now, I’m afraid to let them out in case something would happen to them. And I have a broody hen in the coop sitting on golf balls and am scheming how to get some guinea eggs to throw under her.
~Jenny~

By: Lynda Dunham-Watkins

Lynda Dunham-Watkins — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:16:36 +0000

You make me want chickens again! grrrr..memories of my grandmother’s hens on a setting nest when she would make us go in and gather the eggs without teaching us the fundamentals of that situation!!

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:36:47 +0000

Have the ducks found their pond yet?

By: Lola-Dawn

Lola-Dawn — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:59:17 +0000

Chickens are good, and more chickens are … gooder? I miss having chickens! We free-ranged our chickens too, but kept them locked in until they had finished their laying for the day. After a while, we learned to recognize individual cackles. Seemed most years, a Buff Orpington was the last cackler/layer for the day, so as soon as she quit cackling, we let them out to range. I used to wonder if the other hens put any peer pressure on Buffy to hurry up and lay that egg already so they could get out! Loved our big Buff Orpingtons, but also loved our little Aracaunas. Dang! I miss having chickens!

By: anne

anne — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:23:26 +0000

Good Luck with the pretty eggs!!

By: Ang.

Ang. — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:11:19 +0000

You are not alone in your sickness. I bought 100 Buff Orpingtons yesterday. That brings me up to around 200 birds! I think we may be giving whole, processed chickens as Christmas gifts.