Be careful what you say in public forums!

[chickenlady08]

Wow! I have never had a facebook page but my daughter 'had' one. I made her delete hers a couple months ago. I don't agree with those types of communication devices. Who cares what my friends had for breakfast, when they showered and when they go to the bathroom. Uh to personal for me and to many preditors out there to start trouble.

Sorry you have had so much trouble with your beautiful BO. He is absolutely beautiful I have a Delaware roo 'Jack' that is arnry and attached me and many others but he is gorgeous so I keep him around even against everybody's wishes. He helps produce some beautiful babies.

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

I just post Chicken Drama on my FB. People are tired of all the complaining on the news, so I try to lighten it up. I mention my children occasionally, but all my "friends" are people I know at least decently.

After I had butchered my first rooster ever, the top-dog roo made it his business to run across the yard and TRY to attack me. He got the scoccer ball treatment. I wrote about it on FB. The comments all basically said "Thy Name is now Dinner!" I mentioned this to DD(age12). She ran outside, grabbed Mr. Offender, and sat down on a hay bale for a long talk. I still don't know exactly what she said to him, but he's remembered to be a gentleman ever since!

OP, I'd say you need to go weed your friends list. Or start a new category of "close friends" or "chicken friends" and only post chicken drama for them. Thank you for your tale. I think I'll be switching most of my posts to "friends", rather than "friends of friends".

 

[EweSheep]

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She probably told him the details of how it will go down if he didn't straightened up. "First they will slit your throat, hang upside down, guts out, skinned or feathered and make a nice dinner out of you and I will have both of your drumsticks for supper! Now would you behave yourself???????? "

 

[Crack N' Egg]

That is ridiculous!! What is happening to our society?? darn, when I was a kid I use to get spanked, now parents are scared s-less of their kids, and kids are killing their parents....

Anyway, I'm sorry for your trouble. I hope it ends there and you will get no more bothersome phone calls or door bell rings. My Mr. Roo is the same. I've posted many times at the wwwf cage fighting my DH has with Mr. Roo. I just crack open a beer and enjoy the show!

I myself have taken a solid wood rake handle and split it in two against my roo's chest after he tried to attack my 2 1/2 yo. But he is a good roo, will go up against a fox, hawk, dog or whatever tries to hurt his girls. I would rather have a roo like that then one that sits in my lap all day.


Hmmm...you know, I've been posting yesterday about the fact I cannot get syringes in NJ to give my chicken penicillin g. I posted it on facebook that I was in the need of one...I'll call you guys if I need to be broken out of a rehab or jail because they come to take me away for 'drug' use! LOL!

 

[thechickenchick]

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Absolutely!!!! Over the past few years we have had numerous friend and family tell us we need to have a FB page. We told our teen son that he is not to have one, and we decided long ago it was not for us. However a couple of months ago DH wanted to get in touch with 2 friends from his past. After googling one he found he was on FB. So he made a page for US> It wasn't 2 hours before his EX wife was wanting to chat and that was just the start. (her chatting would not have been an innocent convo

) He deleted it.


Then right after school got out my son was approached by his best friends Dad and asked if him and J had gotten drunk the last day of school. My DS honestly said no we hung out and went driving around with so and so. Well the Dad had read it on FB. Apparently a girl that was there thought it would make her cool to post these kind of things on her FB page. This gave me a perfect opportunity to remind my DS that parents, teachers, prospective employers and worst of all my friends (so they could tattle

) read these things. NOW he understands why he isn't allowed to have one. He called and asked the girl to remove it so his teachers and other people wouldnt see it and she refused

to FB

 

[PortageGirl]

It's perfectly possible to have a FB account so you can keep in touch with friends and family without getting involved in too much 'stuff'. It's a matter of setting the privacy settings right, and setting your own limits about what you post and participate in to a certain level and sticking to it, problem is, it's easy to forget and drift into the wrong comment sometimes.

I had only very close friends and family allowed for the longest time, then because of an up-coming class reunion, my 'friend' list has expanded to the whole county it seems! As soon as the reunion is over I'm trimming my list back down to the bare minimum again. It will be such a relief. Oh, and I don't talk about the chickens much there either, I save that for here and my other favorite forum site which is chicken friendly though less chicken centered.

I would definitely try to figure out who 'turned you in' as well... should be possible by perusing various other 'friends' pages, then un-friend them too. (unless your privacy settings aren't closed down... they altered those a while ago so it's harder to lock things down, but it's well worth the time and effort to click all the little buttons) Life is too short to put up with people like that, and they are NOT your friends.

 

[SallyF]

I have had several friends, relatives, etc., telling me to get a Facebook page and I have never done it. Now I know why. Thanks for the stories!

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

I hope they don't get film of me feeding, with 3 tom turkeys "bowing up" on me.... & me "training" them not to.

 

[midget_farms]

I bet that lady that called was just looking for a free meal!

 

[EweSheep]

Just use common sense, that's all. Its too bad we dont have categories for FAMILY only, BYC list only so we can itemize what we use these people for, like just for games, just for family contacts, and general public that way you can make your own messages for each category. If you wanted to rant or post something about getting after a ranky roo, post it in a certain catagory like your BYCer friends that DO understand about roo's dominance and don't post it for other friends and family members that have objections how you treat your chickens, or your family or your method of disclipining your children.

DCFS is the worst police for any parent to deal with....heard and seen enough and you can not find a time and place to displine your child right NOW and right then and there. If a child act up in the store or kick Mommy or Daddy repeatly, spanking is not bad, but abuse is...there is the difference! So many parents are so afraid to do that because of DCFS and "do goodiers" calling on them and find them at their front door. If you dont see any blood, bruises or marks, bugger off! Same for the roo, he gonna be mean and will keep coming back at you or your children, you BET I will find a home for him OR dinner, depending on my mood. I do not hestitate to kill him if he goes after my dd and there will be plenty of other roos out there.

People are so disassociated with farm life and how we eat or treat our animals.......just so far out of reach!