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I thought so, too, until an amazing BYC member explained in great detail how cool pigeons are (they race! they fly away and find their way home! there are a bunch of different, really cute breeds!) I'm so Team Pigeon now, but the idea of getting some, after my super steep chickeneering...

Oh yeah! I forgot. I was just thinking we might no longer need a home security system if we had chickens sleeping around the perimeter 😆

Soooooo jealous! Don't get me wrong, our chickens are smart, but brilliant game birds? Yes, please! Chickens that sleep on the front porch? Sign me up! I'm so tempted to get a genius game bird that will assassinate my enemies, are motivated by more than treats, and do my kids' online math...

Not quite sure if this is what you mean, but I would LOVE to have an Asil, Shamo or American Game rooster. I've been reading a lot about them and they are so fascinating. I know they might kill my standard breed chickens and that they take a whole new level of care, money, and time that I...

Thanks for that nightmare vision! I've had breakfast already, but now I'm going to be terrified to take the lid off my chicken feed container :eek:😱

I'm so happy opossums are enjoying a kind of renaissance right now with thousands of Instagram and TikTok accounts dedicated to these adorable (unpopular opinion), incredible, and strange creatures. But they absolutely will kill your chickens. We've lost at least three to opossums over the...

x2 plain white birds. We don't have any and will never get any.

Out of curiosity, I Googled "chicken rescue" and it seems there are lots of chicken sanctuaries and rescue organizations (mostly for abandoned and rehomed chickens rather than factory farms). I've seen hens and roosters at my local animal shelters, although with Covid, I'm guessing impounded or...

We aren't zoned for roosters, but some neighbors have them. I always ask immediate neighbors when we're ready to get new birds if they're (still) ok with us having backyard chickens since we live in a pretty densely populated suburb. They actually want us to get roosters because they like the...

Nearly all, if not all, cultures in the world have and do practice some form of cannibalism. From emergency (Donner Party) to metaphoric/symbolic (Eucharist, etc.) to pathological (Jeffrey Dahmer) to ritual (ingesting cremated remains of loved ones and communal eating of enemies). Not exactly...

Murray McMurray sells Easter Eggers as Ameraucanas (https://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/americanas.html). Note that they do have this disclaimer: "Our Ameraucanas are sold as a mixed flock only, and specific feather coloring is not available." [Also, @EmmaRainboe, I think you will appreciate...

We got our vaccinated Fayoumis from Murray McMurray. We had great experiences with McM (sexing was 100% accurate, chicks were healthy, phone conversations with staff were great, no problems with shipping), but don't really know about the quality of the stock they have (after reading subsequent...

Marek's is just a plain old death sentence; no nursing them back to health :( (maybe an unpopular opinion is that there are home remedy cures for Marek's?) If you're breeding for resistance, maybe try raising Egyptian Fayoumis or Turkens if you don't have some already. We have a Fayoumi and...

Lol. Maybe it's easier to see what you're doing when you chop the neck off? We use necks when we make homemade chicken broth.

Turkens 🤢. I guess they're easier to process and some say they are resistant to Mareks? If the Bird Box film actually showed what the suicide-inducing monsters looked like, I'm guessing it would be a flock of Turkens.

We rarely name our chickens, but our "Buffie" will now be called Trash. I'm looking forward to the neighbors' reactions when we start talking a lot about Trash.

"79: the idea of walking my chicken down my residential area in a harness is just so appealing to me. it’s the dream really, normalize taking your chickens for a walk" Whoever wrote this is my soulmate. I almost want to get a Shamo or Asil just to take them for walks or anywhere people take...

Beautiful rooster!

I prefer a small or perfectly upright/spiky comb. Floppy ones look messy and the coop itself already holds that place of honor.

"17. me spelling orphingtons wrong and getting called out" 😂