[QUOTE=iamgnome;18909597]I like chickens.
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In a bucket.[/QUOTE]
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[B]"Om nom nom".[/B]
I used to have chickens. Used them for quite a while, but then one of them got sick, and this was around the time that bird flu was srs business, so we killed them all.
There's a house on the way to school that has a shitload of chickens.
I want to die whenever I get within a mile of it.
My cousin lives on a farm and the chickens are pretty cool, I'd ask for two or three but there are millions of foxes around. I live right across from a forest so they'd be in my yard every night.
They also make good composte if you bury them in the garden.
I saw a chicken as a pet on some TV show the other day. Looked pretty good. But if it shits as much as guinea pigs do, I'm not interested. And I guess that they probably do.
Chickens are awesome pets, and OP, i'm proud of you. Cheers for letting them roam about, rather than, like you said, holing them up in a hutch.
Nothing makes me feel more happy inside than seeing my chickens having a dirt-bath (they dig a little hole in the ground and ruffle all their feathers and it causes lots of soil to go in and clean em, it's so cool :D)
Also, you shouldn't have clipped their wings...Sure, they'd be going all over the place, but if you fed them and manually put them into their coop, they'd soon learn that that was where you should go to sleep. Obviously, you'd still get a few who sleep outside in trees, but what's the harm? I used to have about 30 chickens (i'd cull all males and leave only my favourite, strong dominant male. He was so awesome, kicked ass and no one messed with him. Had the two most biggest claws on the backs of his feet, as thick as a pinky and half the length of an index finger!) and at least 10 of them slept either above the coop or in the hedges beside it. They were always relatively safe.
Also, a word of warning. If you want chickens as pets, do NOT get cockerels. God damn nuisances. They breed like crazy then you have loads of grumpy hens who get pissed off easily and loads of chicks going everywhere. Plus, a couple of generations down the line, you get lots of inbreeding.
So, to sum it all up. Chickens rock.
Choking the Chicken!
[QUOTE=killa101;18912259]My cousin lives on a farm and the chickens are pretty cool, I'd ask for two or three but there are millions of foxes around. I live right across from a forest so they'd be in my yard every night.[/QUOTE]
Lots of foxes round here too, get a good hutch that has good protection.
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you know you want it :smug:
We got some of the "boring ginger ones" sure, they only live two years, but they lay eggs every day throughout the year. Not to mention that they were only £5 each.
[QUOTE=iamgnome;18909597]I like chickens.
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In a bucket.[/QUOTE]
I do like this.
And chickens are cool. :smug:
I can't have chickens as pets because I already like eating chickens and having chickens as pets would be weird since I eat chickens and I wouldn't want to eat my pets even if the chickens I eat aren't the chickens that I have as pets.
My friend got chickens as pets a few months ago...
at first he had 2, 1 died so he got 2 more
so then he had 3, and just recently they all died.
so he's gone through 4 chickens in a couple of months. damn foxes.
[QUOTE=plokoon9619;18913294]I can't have chickens as pets because I already like eating chickens and having chickens as pets would be weird since I eat chickens and I wouldn't want to eat my pets even if the chickens I eat aren't the chickens that I have as pets.[/QUOTE]
Then don't be a pussy, I eat chicken but still have chickens.
I still won't eat them, but I'm not going to go veggie over it.
I have 2, they stay in their hutch most of the time because they like to eat stuff from the vegetable garden.
It's a really big one tough (build for ~10 chickens) with a big outside thingie.
Oh and they're not stupid but compared to a parrot they aren't very bright :v:
Our neighbors have some. One day our dog got under the fence and gutted a chicken.
[QUOTE=Chopstick;18909818]What do you expect him to do put a roof over the chickens pen so they can't fly away? Clipping their wings is better.[/QUOTE]
Chicken wire.
It was developed specifically for making chicken pens.
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We had a bunch of chicken ourselves. As well as a few turkeys and a couple of ducks and goats. All awesome animals.
They smell like cheese...
I have like 14 chickens. Free eggs ftw
I would like to have chickens but I'm living in a city
[QUOTE=shipkiller;18915118]I would like to have chickens but I'm living in a city[/QUOTE]
Same here.
Some friends of mine who live in the country have chickens, and they're awesome.
They trained one of the chickens to hop up on their backs and ride around on them.
Also OMG FREE EGGS.
Yeah, I have four chickens right now, had five by one died earlier in the season from some unknown illness.
Chickens are really the ultimate food recyclers too, throw your table scraps out into a compost pile and let them pick out what they want out of it. The only downside to chickens is that they do shit EVERYWHERE.
The only other problem can be introducing new Chickens into the group as they tend to get pecked to pieces if you don't keep an eye on em.
If you introduce new chickens at night they wake up and the others assume they've always been there.
It's funny, actually.
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why won't my pet chicken wake up? :frown:
