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I tied a big barred rock to my boxer's neck - he chased the other chickens as he dragged it around! Did not work for me.

I don't have ANY now! I have had various banties, silkies, a few leghorns, and a pair of ...white with black bars. That was years ago. I want a few chickens - using the excuse that they will eat bugs and give eggs, but I just LIKE them!

Thanks so much. Sure wish I could have a REAL flock, with a male so I could have chicks. I wonder if the hens would sit on fertile eggs I could buy.

Wow, and I thought the US was over-regulated! Hope you can get a heritage something - or will be raising it? The cooking process is more complicated than throwing a turkey in the oven, but I like the way they explain how they come up with recipies. I can only have 3 hen (chickens) here, so I...

So I'm thinking chicken, actually free-ranged, tasts better; and heritage chicken - with their slower growth and higher fat, are even more like Cook's description of heritage turkey. More flavor, richer, more complex. I wonder if restaurants know? And what does it mean to get "an ovation"?

Cook's Illustrated (Nov/Dec 2014): this popular cook book gets into the science of recipes. In a 4 page article they ordered about 15 heritage turkeys, from 6 different breeders. They tried different recipes, explaining that the long legs and smaller breast cook differently than traditional...

I've had a few nice talks with the volunteer coordinator - who for some reason is the barn manager even though she doesn't know anything about the animals. She says the prior 2 woman who used to"run the barn" told her how to care for them, but refused to tell her anything about where they came...

What's the difference between Plymouth and barred rocks? Pictures? I'm trying to figure out what 3 chickens I should get; that's all I'm allowed in this residential area of Sacramento, CA. I have had chickens before, but now don't have a lot of yard. And I want the friendliest, calmest girls.

Thanks to all. I'm new to the ha ha "petting zoo", and already ruffled a few feathers by examining their rabbits (they told me I could) and saying one had "snuffles" and should be separated. I dare not say anything else. I have dreams of changing that nasty dirt chicken yard into a lush...

I used to have chickens, also had incubator and hatched various birds. I had a small covered area, but mostly they were loose in my back yard and veg garden. Don't know why I never worried about them getting over the fence. That was a regular residential house; I'm in another house now, and...