Someone once said “I went to check on my chickens for the first time in a week and they didn’t have any water!!” They wrote this on a chicken FB page (the place of knowledgeable people 🙄). As you can imagine people got very angry at them.
They’re reply was “The chickens are in the far paddock...
I also prefer ornamental birds. Whoever said Silkies have no predator awareness obviously met a very tame Silkie, or has never met a Silkie. Silkies are extremely skittish birds. They don’t have much protection once they’ve seen a predator though. My hens just cluck at the top of their lungs...
“Why don’t you let your chickens roam free around your yard? Keeping them in that ‘cage’ is animal cruelty”
Once you stop letting your cat roam around my yard then I’ll consider it.
“Are your chickens carnivores or herbivores?”
“My little chick couldn’t possibly be a rooster, she’s to sweet”
“I can’t get the rooster to fertilise the eggs, I’ve even locked him in the nesting box with them, nothing”
“My chickens were pecking each other so I locked them up separately”
“What is...