Reviews by morsekathan

Because you can never have less than 5 stars! And if each of the stars has a name - like brilliant, funny, entertaining, truer words were never said, and OMG - then that star counts as three and that makes 15 - Rating math!

I'm up to two chickens I think. I just got 5 chicks for my broody hen, but they don't have names and it's her first time, so they don't count and she doesn't count because she hasn't layed in years and actually, Lulu Belle doesn't count because she can't be bothered to lay, so really I only have one. Oh no. One chicken is so lonely, I'm off to get her a friend!

Great ideas - and if I may, people should apply some of these things to their brooders. Baby chicks need stuff to play with and places to explore. It's so sad to me to see big brooders with nothing for the chicks to do! We always put in logs and sticks. Hay is a great idea too.

Nice article, but what it doesn't address is how long these breeds live. We found that every one of our sex linked died around 2 years. Just dropped dead. We had several die within a short period, and I had a necropsy done on one. She was all tumor. I think these breeds are just breed to be "culled" at 18 months, no consideration is given to their health so they have genetic disposition to get tumors and cancers. I don't cull my chickens and all the other breeds live a long time.