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  1. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Wow i would love to have neighbors like that. I'm 25 but I make a point of befriending people who are much older and wiser than I. One of my dear friends is in her 60s and I help her plant her garden every year in excange for her knowledge. She introduced me to the lovable side of chickens...
  2. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Apparently
  3. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Ugh my FIL just told me how he tried to introduce his new chicks into the flock and how the older hens were trying to kill them. One of his hens is broody and has a dozen 2 week old babies. He somehow though he could add a bunch of 4 week old chicks to 5 older hens and a broody and they would...
  4. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Boy I wish someone had told my Rat Terrier that she is supposed to be lazy Neurotic is most definitely the word for her. You should have told them that no, they call them terriers because the AKC wouldn't approve the name "crack head dog"
  5. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    My grandmother has a cattle ranch and has the same problem. She uses goats and an excavator to keep hers under control. Works great. Especially when her neighbors decided to grow a secret pot garden in the middle of them. She dug out all the surroubding bushes and the plants were gone the next day
  6. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    I don't have property yet, but I live in California and blackberries grow wild here. If you have never accidentally walked into blackberry vines consider yourself fortunate. My plan is to build a fence out of them. You would have to be on drugs to go through that. If they will grow where you...
  7. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Wow thats a really good idea. I live in city limits and can have hens but not roos. Doesn't matter. My hens are louder than the rooster I used to keep (he slept inside and didnt crow durring the day). I even have one hen that started crowing after the rooster died. I feel sorry for my neighbors...
  8. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    There is a difference though, between genetically modified and selectively bred. Selective breeding crosses plants or animals to produce offspring with the traits they desire and is very slow and clumsy as you said. Genetic engineering is done in a lab and they actually splice genes from...
  9. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    And what drug were they on that caused them to believe that sort of bologna?
  10. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    I dont really consider farms a "factory farm" based on size, just the treatment of the animals. People treating animals like machines in a factory verses people like you and your friends (and my grandmother who is a second generation cattle rancher) who treat their animals with kindness. Thats...
  11. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    The seed mix is like 90% millet with a small amount of sunflower seeds. I have tried to convince him to try something else. The farm supply store sells whole feed thats cheeper than birdseed but he likes being "right". As far as what I think a factory farm is, I mean the big operations that...
  12. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Oh how Oh how I wish I could convince him. He is one of those people who chooses ignorance just to be "right" and doesnt listen to anybody. Lots of people struggle with difficult mother-in-laws, my father-in-law is the difficult one. He drives me nuts sometimes. Just doesn't listen to anybody...
  13. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    I have tried, believe me. He isn't doing it because it is cheeper. It's way more expensive around here but he won't listen. He has it in his head that they are birds so bird seed is better than pellets. I understand that pellets aren't exactly a natural diet, but the breeds of chickens we have...
  14. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    He gives it as their feed. No wonder he is always calling me wanting to know whats wrong with this hen or that one. He was getting rubber eggs so I gave him oyster shell and they stoped. I didnt know he was feeding them bird seed
  15. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Back on the subject of dumb things, I just found out that my father-in-law feeds his chickens wild bird seed. He says its better for them. Um? No. Just no.
  16. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Sounds like that might be a good option for me. I can always just process in the garage. When we forst got our chickens we tried out a couple of meat birds but realized quickly that we simply could not have a decent sized laying flock and meat birds too. We could do maybe 2 or 3 a year. Rabbits...
  17. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    If only. She cant seem to separate cats either. She hasn't killed one yet but there have been close calls. She gets squirrels and rats though.
  18. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    Thats something I had not thought of. I would just have to build their cage like Fort Knox. I have a rat terrier who takes her job of rodent hunting very seriously :) Are there any issues with zoning? I am allowed chickens in my suburban neighborhood but they are picky about how many. Processing...
  19. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    I suppose I should mention that as soon as we are able, my husband and I will be buying our own little piece of land and providing our own meat, vegetables, eggs and milk. We just have to wait and see if my husband can land this new job he is pursuing.
  20. heatherlaw

    Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat - Part 2 : Chicken Boogaloo.

    I find it interesting how much the meat industry is allowed to get away with considering how much our govornment likes to micro manage things. It jusy doesnt make any sense. I personaly do buy that kind of meat, but only because I have little choice at this point. I can not afford organic...
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