Chicken Lovers, Unite!!!!

[Teallaura]

As some of you know, I used to have a couple of pet chickens. I want to get more eventually, but in the meantime I'm drooling over different breeds...


Purdy...

http://www.jphpk.gov.my/English/chicken%20breeds.htm

[Philosophickle]

So....You're going to eat them?

[norwegen]

This particular leghorn is amazingly handsome.

http://www.jwccpa.com/images/foghorn.gif

Note the moderately long, single-comb head - a "crow head," if you will. The face is smooth and wrinkle-free, the body broad and well-developed with impressive depth along the keel. The plumage is good. The balance looks good.

This bird has a squirrel tail and an enlarged beak, but on the whole, I'd say he'd put up a pretty good fight.

What say you, laura?

[NeilUnreal]

My sister had a pet chicken once. They had a small flock out back of the house and one little bantam-sized hen became friendlier than the others and my sister treated it kinda like a pet. (She lives way out in the country and is one of those people who loves having lots of animals around.)

-Neil

[Jedidiah]

I used to have a small flock of chickens for eggs. One day a pickup pulled into my driveway and a fellow got out. He had recently arrived in Alaska, he and his wife drove two vehicles up from Pennsylvania (I think it was). He brought with him his pet Dominique (he called it a Dominiquer) rooster, Scratch. He was not able to take proper care of Scratch, temporarily, and asked if I would allow him to board. Scratch stayed with us for several years - his family never came back. At first they would stop by to visit most days on their separate ways to or from work. But, after taking control of my flock from my Rhode Island Red, he was content for about 4 years before he died.

Jed

[The Laughing Man]

My sister had a pet chicken once. They had a small flock out back of the house and one little bantam-sized hen became friendlier than the others and my sister treated it kinda like a pet. (She lives way out in the country and is one of those people who loves having lots of animals around.)

-Neil

My Grandma had a pet chicken once. It irritated my Grandpa to no end. He didn't think chickens should be treated as pets. Well, one night, they had chicken for supper... My Grandma found out which chicken afterwards.

True story.

[NeilUnreal]

True story

Yikes! :lol:

[anthrogirl]

My younger brother kept a few chickens this year. He built a really cool coop in his backyard. And the chickens were relatively docile--you could hold them peacefully in your arms. But then the neighbor dog got into the coop.

And that was the end of that!

ag

[Smokering]

My husband and I are planning to get some ex-battery chickens, just two or three, for eggs. We have a coop (a wedding gift from a carpenter, it's lovely), but I don't know a whole lot about keeping chickens.

Any ideas?

[Teallaura]

http://www.backyardchickens.com/LC-wingclipping.html

The most important part of the coop is the roost - make sure there's ample room for them to perch. Chickens poop - a lot. They can develop ulcers in their feet if they don't have a good roosting spot.

[anthrogirl]

I'd love to have a few chickens. I live in a condo, so I don't have a yard. And I have a feeling the homeowner's association might take issue if I built a coop and a roost on my balcony ('twould be hilarious, though!).

ag

[Trout]

Chickens are a hoot. Typically I keep 30 or 40 of em.

I worked at a LARGE broiler breeder farm for a few years, I could tell chicken stories that'd curl your hair.

I knew a man who lost a testicle from a nasty rooster attack.

Another man lost the top half of his ear.

[Trout]

I'd love to have a few chickens. I live in a condo, so I don't have a yard. And I have a feeling the homeowner's association might take issue if I built a coop and a roost on my balcony ('twould be hilarious, though!).

ag

Tell them it's an integral part of your religion, surely they wouldn't want to discriminate.

[Gabby]

Chickens are a hoot. Typically I keep 30 or 40 of em.

I worked at a LARGE broiler breeder farm for a few years, I could tell chicken stories that'd curl your hair.

I knew a man who lost a testicle from a nasty rooster attack.

Another man lost the top half of his ear.

:twitch:

[Sparko]

I LOVE Chickens! They taste like rattlesnake!

[norwegen]

I live eight or nine miles from downtown Oviedo, where about a dozen chickens roam freely.

click (http://flickr.com/photos/askmanny/129376270/in/set-72057594108362551/)

One of the businesses in that strip mall is a Popeyes Chicken. :twitch:

[NeilUnreal]

I don't like that nervous sound all the chickens make when you go into a henhouse at night. Like everything is right on the edge of an eruption of feet and feathers and the slightest wrong move will set it off. Hehehehe.

-Neil