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

[21hens-incharge]

Yup that thing is TINY!

Heck I could just take the broody coop apart and store (read as hide from hubby) behind the shed.

 

[TexasSam]

Yup that thing is TINY!

Heck I could just take the broody coop apart and store (read as hide from hubby) behind the shed.

No hiding shame on you

 

[rjohns39]

y'all give me insight into how DW's mind works, but after 37 years I kind of have already figured it out.

 

[staceyj]

Only a POTTY trained chicken . . .

Or parrot

 

[Parront]

Or parrot

Dylan has a harness and a leash. She likes her dog crate for the car, it has a nice perch. When she sees me getting it out, she says, "Let's go!" If I am getting ready to go somewhere, she starts acting up, loud beeps and noises that sound like the smoke alarm. So, I get her in the carrier, and she is quiet for the rest of the time, because she knows that she gets to go too.

 

[21hens-incharge]

No hiding shame on you

Well REALLY!!! What did he think I had planned when I came home with not one, not two, but 4 LF Cochin? Then talking about how I hope to get big fluffy broody hens out of the lot?

 

[biophiliac]

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~

Oh no! I wouldif they censor your (and everybody's ) funny posts!.

If you wear your chicken suit in New Jersey they judge you?? Whats wrong with them?

 

[Parront]

Oh no! I wouldif they censor your (and everybody's ) funny posts!.

If you wear your chicken suit in New Jersey they judge you?? Whats wrong with them?

I can imagine that the Jersey girls are like the girls from the "O.C." in CA. They just do not appreciate a well decorated Chicken Shirt!

 

[Smuvers Farm]

There are actually.... 8.... 5 brown, 3 white... we picked up the whites today. Here are pics of the whites and their quarantine area:

Poop is worm free, and they FINALLY got to stretch their wings and FLAP LIKE CRAZY!!!

Uh, is the one middle chicken a rooster?

 

[Smuvers Farm]

Ok, I'm late to the party (as usual), had to drop off flyers at the milk guy's place, hoping to sell 10 turkeys.

Smuvers, As has been pointed out... Your flock has already been minimally exposed. That said, I would check them over closely, pay close attention to their poop for worms, coci, etc. And keep them in quarantine for a month. Me, just being me, would probably would probably give them a can of pink salmon once a week while in quarantine and add some sav-a-chick to their water. If all are fine in a month, move them within eye shot of your birds for a week or two and then see how the mingling goes.

As a soft-hearted bird person, I have adopted strays all my life. They seem to be local, so they have been exposed to the same conditions as yours already. Mistreatment can be overcome, but age can not. Layer breeds are slaughtered after 2 years because of low production. At age 3, my Orpingtons ate way more than they were worth. At age 4, even Leghorns don't lay much any more. Some, but do you want to feed a bird for a year for 2 months of eggs, is the question. For your cute pets, raised from an egg, yes. For rescue birds you do not know, you might have to consider that you will need to cull them soon. Do you want to get attached, just to cull them? Only you -- @Smuvers Farm -- know the answer to that question.

DH and I talked, and we decided to get the birds. On the spectrum of things, there are several outcomes. Either we got new addition to our flock, or we at least will give these birds a good couple of months before we cull for the freezer.