Anyone have luck catching a feral chicken?? UPDATE: Rooster caught, no hen

[FlyingNunFarm]

@Smuvers Farm
Like most people in this thread I agree that there been some exposure already.

If you can do at least some sort of quarantine that would be best. That's very hard. The rescue birds could be stressed already and a little more could bring out signs of illness.

If it were me I would try. Knowing how they were treated even if they lived a few months with you it would be better then the life they have apparently lived so far.

Be cautious. Be prepared that it may not go great. But it really could be worth a try.

 

[Sassysouth]

Arrived back home and the house is covered in Asian LadyBugs!!!!!! Flying in the air, thick as pea soup!!! We have a light colored house and that attracts them.

 

[pitbullmomma]

@Parront , how's that trail camera doing? Find out who is peeing on your tires?



Excellent idea.... and then it could be worked on to transform it into a bachelor pad or something.



BYC is the reason I want the PIC to read better. That way, we can go outside and I can work on the chicken area while he refreshes the site and reads everyone's posts to me!

This thread was brought up in another thread started by someone in the FEEDBACK section. Unfortunately, I feel someone decidedly attacked myself and @granny hatchet personally, and then tried to wrap it up as a *things have their place and this is NOT the place to be socializin*. Whatever. I sent the owner of THIS POST, @theuglychick , a PM to make sure we, as a whole, hadn't jacked her thread. As she is wonderfully nice, she was completely on board with us using this thread to chit chat and cluck. This is what lead to the changing of this threads title, so others wouldn't bitch about having to wade through our blathering just to find out about the Squatchs.



You are a goober, but totally right. In my own personal experiences, when I see newbies post, they either joined to be SOCIAL (90% of the joiners), or posting because of an emergency.... who get an answer and then won't post again. I joined because I liked the socializing... and I joined so I could reply and be a smart ass.....

This is probably the first group of people I have been a part of online, where I really feel like we could all go out to dinner, have a few drinks, talk chickens/family/goals, and everyone would have a good time! No one taking a billion pics to post on FB or Instagram..... and we'd hug instead of shake hands.....

OK that's it!!! Meet up at Bob's place for Valentines Day!!!

You guys are so freakin active, I have like 7 pages to catch up on!! I am gonna have to hire a personal assistant just to manage my chickenmail, jeez!

@ smoovie:

The best part of BYC (aside from all the great chicken advice) *is* the socalizing, for real.

In Jersey, women pretty much suck (no offense to NJ BYCers, cuz, well, we're awesome) and you guys are my buds!! I wish I had real-life friends like y'all! Here, everyone is too damn catty or into their own thing to bother with friends. It's weird. When I lived in the midwest, people were so much friendlier <sigh>.

Anyway, I love you guys. I hope nobody shuts down our threads (I keep waiting for someone to delete the majority of posts on my Never Gonna Get an Egg post cuz of all the potty mouth, penisy-type references) cuz it's SO much fun. It's a virtual party, I can hang with you guys and drink my wine and laugh my ass off, and not worry about getting a DUI, or getting judged on my outfit, lol!!

XO! Off to catch up now~

 

[Parront]

You guys are so freakin active, I have like 7 pages to catch up on!! I am gonna have to hire a personal assistant just to manage my chickenmail, jeez!

@ smoovie:

The best part of BYC (aside from all the great chicken advice) *is* the socalizing, for real.

In Jersey, women pretty much suck (no offense to NJ BYCers, cuz, well, we're awesome) and you guys are my buds!! I wish I had real-life friends lie y'all! Here, everyone is too damn catty or into their own thing to bother with friends. It's weird. Wen I lived in the midwest, people were so much friendlier <sigh>.

Anyway, I love you guys. I hope nobody shuts down our threads (I keep waiting for someone to delete the majority of posts on my Never Gonna Get an Egg post cuz of all the potty mouth, penisy-type references) cuz it's SO much fun. It's a virtual party, I can hang with you guys and drink my wine and laugh my ass off, and not worry about getting a DUI, or getting judged on my outfit, lol!!

XO! Off to catch up now~

Here, maybe a "CUI" for: Chickens while Under the Influence.

 

[pitbullmomma]

Here, maybe a "CUI" for: Chickens while Under the Influence.

Or CMWUI: Chicken Math While Under the Influence!

 

[rjohns39]

Or CMWUI: Chicken Math While Under the Influence!

OUCH! Can you just imagine those of us already afflicted with the chicken math disease without any filter at all?

 

[pitbullmomma]

Right now it's a bit damp in there b/c it's been raining almost constantly for the past several days. Wet chickens come in and shake the water all over. Will that be an issue?


I'm glad I'm not the only one who's working on coop stuff now. I spent the evening crawling around in chicken poop to get a box built for my cockerel so he'll have a little more sheltered space, plus block the wind coming from the south west across the field. I have to finish it off this weekend once the rain stops. I'm never done with this thing... I still need to deal with the poop board so I can use the pdz stuff. No one ever tells you that your coop is never done.




Well that explains it. I just unfollowed that thread. There was another one I unfollowed too. I get people wanting to stay 'on topic' but the situation was resolved & the op was participating in the convo. What ticks me off the most is that the people who complained the most about going off topic were taking it off topic themselves. Absolutely ridiculous, I guess 'the rules' only apply to some. Plus, if something came up, then someone who comes along later revisited it they'd get their panties in a bunch b/c they were done with it. SMH. IMO if an OP has a problem with the topic going off, esp after things are resolved then they are fully capable of saying something. I went back and looked to see if my 'off topic' comments were deleted and they weren't.. so IDK what they meant by 'tidy now'. And then they started attacking people b/c they didn't read through 500+ messages & offered a suggestion for catching the chickens. Sorry they didn't want to look at your 'off topic' photos of your chickens eating a pumpkin to find out about the 'on topic' chickens that the post was about and made the mistake of assuming the chickens were still on the loose. In fact, I have yet to see one person on THIS post attack a single person who pops in to offer a suggestion on catching the elusive chicken, or asking what's new with it so apparently it's not that hard to be kind and civil for some of us.


I think we all know that if we all got together to do something chickeny we'd all have different ideas of what to do, & wouldn't be able to decided on anything. Then end up sitting around drinking wine and eating while we ooo'd and awe'd over each others chickens.

Off topic and inappropriate is the most fun, lol! People can be such fuddy-duddy butthurters. Life is too short.

XO wonderful OT Peeps!

 

[pitbullmomma]

You have to keep it b/c of chicken math. It's like getting rid of your crib and baby stuff, then you get knocked up. You can't just get rid of it w/o angering the gods.

 

[pitbullmomma]

You can come here!!! Teach me how to build...



Hold crap balls, I cursed above.... I don't curse all the time... but balls anyway......



Had my PIC on the cusp of my 39th birthday.... yeesh.....



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Meeee!!! I need halp!!!!!



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smoovie said:Hold crap balls, I cursed above.... I don't curse all the time... but balls anyway......

You're such a *fibber* lol!

 

[FlyingNunFarm]

From the TSC ad. If I did the math right that "coop" for 6-8 birds is 2.3' h x 3.5' w x 3.4' d. So 6-8 pigeons?