MarkD
Keeper of the Hounds & Garden
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
See I don't want them that good looking if they're to be eaten. These need to be worshipped.
Do you like Chickens?
- Thread starter Bretrick
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See I don't want them that good looking if they're to be eaten. These need to be worshipped.
Warrigal
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- Location
- Sydney, Australia
My daughter has moved in with me some months ago. It is quite difficult to merge two households. Decisions have to be made about which items are useful and which are just disposable junk. We're getting there slowly.
Six nonjunk items are her elderly cat and five pet silky hens.
Their names are Katie Cat, Betty White, Ginger Rogers, Goldie Hawn, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the inappropriately named Colin.
I have begun a new life as a zoo keeper.
Every day I clean out the nest boxes, check the levels in the laying pellet and water dispensers and sweep up their mess. I save scraps for them and give them various treats such as freeze dried mealie worms, rolled oats, cracked corn and red kidney beans.
The girls are free range except during the night. By day they have free access to the back yard. They really like the fernery where they can find coolness in Summer and refuge when any crows are about. They have excavated the small patch of grass near the clothesline and regularly turn over the mulch on a couple of garden beds, scattering it all over the surrounding pavers. I admonish them daily but it seems we have a communication malfunction.
The hens are rather elderly and only Ruthie is still laying but I am happy to provide them with a retirement home for these funny little chooks "for as long as we all shall live". They give me a reason to go outside and spend time in the sun.
L to R - Goldie, Betty, Ginger, Ruthie and Colin
Six nonjunk items are her elderly cat and five pet silky hens.
Their names are Katie Cat, Betty White, Ginger Rogers, Goldie Hawn, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and the inappropriately named Colin.
I have begun a new life as a zoo keeper.
Every day I clean out the nest boxes, check the levels in the laying pellet and water dispensers and sweep up their mess. I save scraps for them and give them various treats such as freeze dried mealie worms, rolled oats, cracked corn and red kidney beans.
The girls are free range except during the night. By day they have free access to the back yard. They really like the fernery where they can find coolness in Summer and refuge when any crows are about. They have excavated the small patch of grass near the clothesline and regularly turn over the mulch on a couple of garden beds, scattering it all over the surrounding pavers. I admonish them daily but it seems we have a communication malfunction.
The hens are rather elderly and only Ruthie is still laying but I am happy to provide them with a retirement home for these funny little chooks "for as long as we all shall live". They give me a reason to go outside and spend time in the sun.
L to R - Goldie, Betty, Ginger, Ruthie and Colin
Lilac
Well-known Member
- Location
- Flyover Country
CallMeKate & @oscash, they always played that song at my MIL's German Club. Nothing like watch some people who have had several beers dancing the chicken dance.
Lilac
Well-known Member
- Location
- Flyover Country
My neighbor has chicken & turkeys that are free range during the day. Once in a while they will come over & hunt bugs in the pastures.
I would like to get Guinea hens. They are good at eating ticks & bugs & great watch birds. They are also pretty self-sufficient & will roost in trees to stay away from predators. Years ago, a boarding barn had some & they were fun to watch.
I would like to get Guinea hens. They are good at eating ticks & bugs & great watch birds. They are also pretty self-sufficient & will roost in trees to stay away from predators. Years ago, a boarding barn had some & they were fun to watch.
We had chickens when I was a kid, we used them for eggs and meat.Grandma would give me some left overs and tell me to take them to the chickens. Which I would do then she would have to come get me off the rabbit hutch because the rooster would be after me. Grandma said it was because some of my cousins would tease him and all he saw in me was a kid. Needless to say I had no interest in teasing the chickens, I saw them every day, but I grew to dislike that stupid rooster.
Then my DH and I had some pet chickens, we had 5 to start with, over the years 4 got sick and died, the last one literally ran away from home. I think she joined some chickens down the road, but my son says that those people eat their chickens. Well Rosie was pretty old and would be awfully tough.
Then my DH and I had some pet chickens, we had 5 to start with, over the years 4 got sick and died, the last one literally ran away from home. I think she joined some chickens down the road, but my son says that those people eat their chickens. Well Rosie was pretty old and would be awfully tough.
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