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Post by garrett on Sept 20, 2011 19:24:53 GMT -5
anybody wanna contribute to this one?smiles
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Post by mythkat on Sept 21, 2011 13:46:26 GMT -5
I just love watching the little dinosaures. Chicken football is the best. You know, one gets a bug or lizard or mouse and all the rest chase her trying to take it away. But the ducks are a real hoot. They are the frat boys of the yard. No inhibitions, totally crass. The geese are the peacekeepers, so dignified, but let the others get out of line.....
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Post by w8n4dave on Sept 21, 2011 19:57:09 GMT -5
We have 3 hens and a rooster .. And well the cat thinks she is a chicken. Right now the chickens hide in the corn during the day and well when they come out so does the cat. I need to get a youtube of it but usually no camera around when they come out of the corn.
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Post by garrett on Sept 23, 2011 2:15:43 GMT -5
yu go girl!
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Post by texadus on Jan 1, 2012 19:44:20 GMT -5
cute w8n4dave!
We have chickens... mostly layers, but we usually get 4H broiler culls every year. We just got a new batch of chicks in November... barred rocks and americaunas. Hoping to get more chicks by Valentines.
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Post by annclaire on Jan 4, 2012 2:35:21 GMT -5
I love raising baby chicks. I start them in a box in the house. When they get too big for that box, they go in a big TV box on the enclosed back porch. The move to the coop when I find them perched on the edge of that box waiting for me to take them outside One year, I was pulling weeds in the middle of the front yard and the chicks (about the size of my fist at the time) were scratching in the new flower bed by the front porch when the mailman went up the steps to the mail box. When he left, his shadow crossed the chicks (which he hadn't seen yet) and they all made a bee line for me in the middle of the yard to huddle up underneath me. I thought the post man was going to fall down he was laughing so hard ;D Another year, the Animal Control officer showed up on my front porch asking me how many animals I had on the property. I asked why and he said he had a complaint about chickens. I knew that the city had an ordinance against chickens, but didn't think my neighbors would turn me in (jackass next door did it because I had to ask them to keep their teenagers from throwing their party trash in my back yard.) Anyway, I grabbed some fried rice from chinese takeout and took the ACO to the back yard. I had a wire fence where I had fed the chicks so they had to poke their heads through the wire, so I sprinkled the rice and called the chicks. The half-dozen came beating feet around the corner of the house bumping each other out of the way with their wings, and generally trampling each other to bang against the fence with their head poked through the wire. That time I thought the ACO was going to bust a gut ... he was bent over so far his hat fell off, slapping his knees and laughing so hard he couldn't breathe ;D Another time, we came home on a hot August afternoon and the dog was laid flat out sleeping with all 6 chicks sitting on top of him snapping at flies ;D That dog understood "baby" and the chicks had free run of the same yard as the dog. Smartest dog either of us have ever owned. Another time, we came home and the dog tried to come out of his dog house, but there was a traffic jam of hens and dog trying to all get out the door at the same time Later that day I gave the dog the ham bone from a picnic ham and he took the bone and set it down in the middle of the yard. Well, here come the hens, thinking they are going to share his ham bone. Poor dog, he looked at me and I told him "that's your ham bone, you don't have to share with them." That was the one and only time I ever saw that dog chase any of the chicks I raised ;D Each time, I would give the hens to a friend's mother who raised leghorns and they would give me dozens of eggs in return Anyway, one year, someone left the coop door open and all their chickens were spread across the countryside except for the six we gave them. They were standing at the open doorway of the coop waiting for someone to feed them ;D Another time, we ended up with a rooster in with the hens, so when we gave them away, we had to give them to someone else as the other folks were worried that their leghorn rooster would kill the banty we had. So, we gave them to some other folks who had chickens and ducks and they let theirs roam the property during the day and cooped them at night like ours. A couple of weeks later, they told me that the little banty was stealing the hens from the other rooster and that he did NOT like ducks or their dogs at all ;D Throughout the rest of that summer, they kept having chickens disappear at night ... evidently the skunks and raccoons were getting into the coop at night, but all the hens the banty had were safe and they told us that he fought off a skunk one night after I suggested that they put a light in the coop!
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Post by garrett on Jan 4, 2012 2:50:35 GMT -5
rotfl.......chicksterical....smiles
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Post by grammy on Jan 4, 2012 20:09:57 GMT -5
I've always wanted to raise chickens! But I like to travel more. It's hard enough to find sitters for the dogs. Maybe when I'm too old to enjoy traveling anymore.
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Post by garrett on Jan 4, 2012 20:55:11 GMT -5
chickens might be fun.smiles
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Post by marielouise on Jan 8, 2012 23:00:26 GMT -5
We have 19 laying hens--- they have just started laying since 2 weeks before Thanksgiving and now we are getting 15 to 17 eggs per day. Its been years since we had chickens , our last ones disapeared one and 2 at a time till they were all gone---hawks--- possums coons and stray dogs. We were letting them free range but they durn chicks got to where they liked my flower beds too well. With all that pasture out there and they had to mess in the beds--so now they are restricted to their wire pen.
Jim makes a couple trips to town per week and has developed an egg route--ladies who knew he had ordered chickens and put their name on a list for fresh brown eggs. Most of them also buy fresh veggies in season so good deal cuz those eggs sure add up in a hurry . Carried 2 dozen to our sons today for his MIL --- we trade them for fresh cat fish, they go fishing all the time .
Here in this part of Texas we have what I call winter weeds-- and winter rye grass especially after spreading horse poop - so when I work up the raised beds I pull the weeds &grass and give them to the chickens. It only took a couple times out there and now if I go out the back door and they see me they all run to this side of their pen and start making weird begging noises---yep chickens can beg!! Its all in the tone of those weird cluck noises---haahhahahaha.
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Post by leasure0911 on Jan 10, 2012 15:54:23 GMT -5
We have a coupe dozen hens, rhode island reds and buff rocks. My dogs just ignore them and let them go about their business which is quite remarkable (2 pit mixes, a beagle, and an irish wolfhound mix.) This weird weather has messed up their laying though, or at least thats my guess.
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Post by garrett on Jan 13, 2012 11:48:34 GMT -5
goooooooooooooooooo chickies.lol
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Post by vblack on May 3, 2012 15:57:17 GMT -5
Love my Hens! I got 15 chicks and 9 made it before Mr Owl got them...Johnny finally got the chicken coop built. Either took longer than we thought or the chicks grew faster than we thought. Kids had a great time with them. It was better than t.v. they are in a pen now...they don't get out during growing season since they love tomatoes....and I do, too!
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Post by marielouise on May 3, 2012 23:38:05 GMT -5
V I know the feeling! Love my chickens!!! And they don't free range the yard while the garden growing!!! We let them some during the fall but they did a bad bad piece of work in my flw beds---- sooo that ended that! I still toss any and all weeds from the flwbeds and garden into the pen and they demolish them. and have found sooo many cut worms all over the flw beds and garden so those also go to the chickens and horn worms--- found some on my cross vines this week. None on the maters so mebbe the cross vines are a host plant for horn worms ---
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