BarbaraJ Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Definitely addictive. I started Feb 2008 with 3 and a small WIR , lost one , hubby built a bigger run to go with my new cube and got 3 more. Lost another of the older ones but have had 4 for 10mths now. Went to look yesterday ayt maybe getting 2 more in the spring. got 3 more!! no more now thats it honest. Could probably have 2 more in a year or so Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Shirl Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 I have a very big garden Go for it. Get a cube or two Just in case of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Shirl Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Have already decided where WIR 2 can go, although apparently I'm not allowed Watch this space. No pun intended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted February 15, 2010 Share Posted February 15, 2010 Then I saw ANH's run from Aviaries4U and it was obviously perfect for my garden ... Oi, hands off, get your own . It's screwed down, you know . If it disappears one night, I'll know who to blame . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meezers Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 why are chooks so addictive ? I started off with a wooden coop and WIR for 6 chooks, a year later added another coop and adjoining WIR ( now connected ) and another 7 chooks. Now another year later and I want more, I cannot extend my WIRs ( well can not is wrong - I think should not is more like it, the back garden is in danger of disappearing under weld mesh ) but later this year I will replace my chooks who died, and I keep looking at my lawn out the front - it looks very empty and I hate mowing it, I'm sure a little coop with bantams would enhance it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillC Posted February 17, 2010 Author Share Posted February 17, 2010 why are chooks so addictive ? I started off with a wooden coop and WIR for 6 chooks, a year later added another coop and adjoining WIR ( now connected ) and another 7 chooks. What a great idea. I'm just about to move my 2nd eglu and 3 ex-batts into the WIR. But once I have two eglus there really isn't space for any more. But a 2nd WIR with maybe a little tunnel connecting it to the original. Then I'd have much more space... I still lust after a cube. Another WIR would enable me to to fit one in Hmmm. Just have to persuade OH to build yet another WIR. But having done one, he's got the expertise to build more. He's a sucker for ex-batts so maybe that will be my angle Chicken heaven here I come Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Shirl Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Sounds perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostin Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 Totally addictive I started with an eglu and 2 chooks, Now have and eglu, a cube, various wooden houses and OH has just completed my 2nd walk in run . In the next month I will start hatching my own chicks, fathered by the cockerel I was never ever going to get (I now have 2 cockerels ) and then they will be no stopping me . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GillC Posted June 26, 2017 Author Share Posted June 26, 2017 How time flies! When I started this thread back in 2010, I was relatively new to chicken keeping. Since then, 7 years and two house moves later, I'm still addicted. When I wrote my first post I had 7 hens and two eglus. I was blogging about chickens, and also posted pictures on my FB page. A friend from work saw the photos of my eglus and asked me if I wanted another. He had a lovely red rablu, but his childrens' guinea pigs had died relatively quickly and he wanted rid of it. Another eglu.......more chickens. Then another friend had a fox attack that did away with her last chicken....she had a pink eglu cube with WIR and wanted to give up chicken keeping. Always room for more I went to fetch it. When I got to her house, she also had a green rablu that was gathering cobwebs in a corner of her garden. Confident now in how easy it was to convert a rablu into an eglu (thanks to the omlet conversion kit) I happily accepted the rablu as well. I started stacking eglu WIR panels behind the garage. It was like I had become an eglu alchoholic. I now have 7/8 hens at any one time. They have their main eglus and runs, holiday eglus and runs in different parts of the garden where they go so that I can give their main home a good clean, and a hospital eglu just in case. Bliss! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted June 26, 2017 Share Posted June 26, 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 It's amazing how much it takes over your life/garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chickabee Posted June 28, 2017 Share Posted June 28, 2017 My family think I'm not "normal" and keep telling me I should downsize. My husband said I like pets with tiny brains, I said that's why I married him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 My husband said I like pets with tiny brains, I said that's why I married him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarkymite Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Yep totally happened to me too. 3x chickens and a classic and run turned into buying a house with a bigger garden turned into a huge WIR turned into fencing off a huge space just for chickens turned into 4 chickens turned into fantasizing about taking in exbatts and having pure breeds and endless daydreaming and plotting of how I can get a cube so I can have more than 4 at a time... And nightly sleepless nights in case any harm should befall my birdies while I sleep (we have regular fox visitors) and in case anyone complains about their propensity for squawking at 4am.... Oh and also I've now got one set of neighbours and half my family hooked and have a mini industry selling eggs to my poor colleagues at work... It's a serious affliction and there is no cure. Except to scratch the itch and Get More Birds that is... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mars Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 My family think I'm not "normal" and keep telling me I should downsize. My husband said I like pets with tiny brains, I said that's why I married him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mars Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 You are not alone We all have the same problem https://club.omlet.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=92121&hilit=disease. Edited to make clickable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsunset Posted June 30, 2017 Share Posted June 30, 2017 Lol.....see the link was to my morehens disease! .....a slippery slope and I slid down it faster than a toboggan in an Olympic run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mars Posted July 1, 2017 Share Posted July 1, 2017 Lol.....see the link was to my morehens disease! .....a slippery slope and I slid down it faster than a toboggan in an Olympic run! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
