Anyone else keep their birds as pets? (Not for food)

[ILuvMyFlock]

I'm trying to find like minded people here, I don't cull any of my birds, I buy and keep all straight run birds from chickens, to ducks, geese, guineas, and turkeys. I have about an acre, I'm trying to buy more, I pray that works out for me, anyway I keep this place a safe haven for my Roos I also take in local roosters that need a home.

So please if anyone else keeps their birds as pets too, say hi.

 

[BantyChooks]

Good idea, hope you have luck finding more like-minded members.

 

[Cluckcluck1215]

Hi!

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

@Banty - thanks

@CluckCluck - hello , I'm sorry you lost some birds, I've lost some myself and it's never easy.

 

[chicken4prez]

You might've well been describing me!!!!


Hello and welcome to BYC!

 

[TheTwoRoos]

I do!

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

Yay! So I'm not the only one! There's a few here like me!

 

[chicken4prez]

Yay! So I'm not the only one! There's a few here like me!

Yeppers!

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

Yeppers! 

Do you have any neat stories about your birds? I see mine as family, children, and friends. They each have their own unique personalities and quirks.

 

[chicken4prez]

Do you have any neat stories about your birds? I see mine as family, children, and friends. They each have their own unique personalities and quirks.

Hm.... I've owned chickens for about 8-9 years so I have plenty sad, happy and funny ones.

A great one is when one of our first batches of chickens pecked my little sisters eye. Not funny for her but funny for us!

A sad one was when one of our batches of chickens got a bump under her wing and she had it for about a week then she would eat it off and it would come back the next week. This happened for about a month and I found her one day in the pen dead.

R.I.P Curious.

I have more but I can't seem to remember them right now... when I do I'll defiantly share them!


Do you have any?