Chickens for 10-20 years or more? Pull up a rockin' chair and lay some wisdom on us!

[Mountain Momma]

Mountain Momma, Did you watch the other video, the "chicken mommie" city girl fence where the raccoon got in and ate the chickens?

no. I watched the one with the hawk and the crying.

 

[Celie]

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Originally Posted by bruceha2000


Funny video.

So what is it with chickens and the RUNNING? Don't they know they have wings and can fly?? When mine decide to go somewhere fast, they clamp their wings to their sides and run as fast as their little legs can go. Even the Cubalaya "flyers". I HAVE seen them fly but it surely isn't the preferred method of transportation.

Bruce
My Chickens prefer to run rather than fly. I think they like to be underestimated as a defensive move! when they want to fly, the top of a 50 foot tree makes a nice perch, But, if not in danger, they would rather be FAT and LAZY !!

 

[Mountain Momma]

Mountain Momma, Did you watch the other video, the "chicken mommie" city girl fence where the raccoon got in and ate the chickens?

okay, that was pathetic and somebody shooting guns in the background. Those poor chickens must live in the land of Stupid. I just tasted a little throw up, for the first time today, and that is saying a lot!

 

[Celie]

The thing you need to know about common sense is.....its not actually that common. I'm glad she posted it though because educationally it is very informative. I would never have thought a hawk would go in a pop door. And be that crafty in general. I would have expected them to be flying overhead and swoop but not laying in wait, getting impatient, hiding on the roof and then right in the coop.

Made me think of my situation. At night nothing can get in the coop except perhaps a genius Sasquatch or a rabid 1000 pound bear or a bulldozer.

But during the day the galvanized gate is open, the insulated reinforced door is open and the interior coop door is open. The reinforced door has a dog door in it that I have kept closed...How hard would it be to train the chickens to walk through it and what about the flaps? Could they do that? Its a big enough dog door that 110 pound dogs used to go in and out....Daisy couldn't but she topped off at 170 before she died. I guess to simplify this question....does anyone have any idea if chickens can handle flaps on their pop door.

Sorry to be so unable to communicate this evening. Finding a kill site, dosposing of the carcas myself and then 2 classroom holloween parties, friday folders, a costume parade and setting up and attending trunk or treat followed by tired kids with millions of aches and pains and sugar packets, I forgot to eat and made the kids raman noodles for dinner, DH out of town- it has all has kicked my bussle.

The chickens are safe. The maint area is a poop fest. I honked the horn for ten minutes before I let the kids out of the car when we got home and 5 hunters at the trunk or treat offered to spend the night waiting for the cat. Everything from bows to glocks. LOL. Dh is half cracked he's not here and the kids are sleeping with me tonight.

Calgon take me away! I'm glad you guys are around to help me get my head around this. The sheriff did say, when I asked him just exactly when we could kill the cat "you dont have to convince me, its DOW you have to convince it was to protect life or limb" Interesting, huh.

I told ya those bad animals sometimes just gotta go ! I have seen hawks very cunning, breaking into coups that you would not expect they would fly and squeeze under over and around an obstacle to KILL very savagely. Very nasty sight, a chicken being tortured by a hawk, but much much worse a child having to be afraid to play on his/her front porch and a mountain Lion that close ! Some beast should not coexist with people.

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Originally Posted by Mountain Momma

look for an 8 at the beginning or the end or the upc. Thats a GMO. Every kind of feed at my local feed stores, there are 3, except organic is GMO
On a positive note: If this be the case, I have no GMO feed !!!!!!!!! How can that be???????

 

[Mountain Momma]

I told ya those bad animals sometimes just gotta go ! I have seen hawks very cunning, breaking into coups that you would not expect they would fly and squeeze under over and around an obstacle to KILL very savagely. Very nasty sight, a chicken being tortured by a hawk, but much much worse a child having to be afraid to play on his/her front porch and a mountain Lion that close ! Some beast should not coexist with people.

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Originally Posted by Mountain Momma

look for an 8 at the beginning or the end or the upc. Thats a GMO. Every kind of feed at my local feed stores, there are 3, except organic is GMO
On a positive note: If this be the case, I have no GMO feed !!!!!!!!! How can that be???????

That is a very positive note. You either have organic or regular old run of the mill pesticide riddled feed. I would stock up with as much as you can afford. The 8 goes for human food as well. And if the human food has corn syrup then its likely GMO. Some say as much as 94% of corn in America is GMO right now. 49 Countries have banned GMO so far. Ive been hearing rumors that GMO kills chicken fertility by the third generation. I asked if anyone else heard that but got no response. also, in fruit and veggies if the upc (ex:sticker on an apple) is 4 digits it is regular pesticide riddled and if the upc is 5 digits it is either organic or GMO. So look for the 8. Even Arrow wheat bread, marketed as healthy and natural, has 8 in the upc of all of their types of bread but 2. Their website does not deny it either. We gave up our favorite bread and now buy the homemade they make at the store. GMO, It is a big experiment and could lead to worldwide starvation. If you really want to friek yourself out look into what companies are buying all of the organic companies up- and fast too. I'll stop now.

 

[Mountain Momma]

A six year old country kid would know that fence would not keep a raccoon out! When I saw that poor wounded chicken hobbling around my heart sank.

That's wrong! Common senseless!

Kansas, here is the flip side to that poor woman. BeeKissed, please dont read this post.
Adrian Cheok: Making a Huggable Internet

An inventor builds gear to transmit touches, tastes, and more

By Eliza Strickland / October 2012

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Photo: Adrian Cheok
Adrian David Cheok, the first person to hug a chicken via the Internet, has some advice for creative engineers trying to make their own mark on history. Rule one: Embrace your idiosyncrasies. Rule two: Get your hands dirty. Rule three: Don’t worry about the critics.
His 2005 Poultry Internet project showcased all these strategies. Cheok, then an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the National University of Singapore, was fascinated by the notion of transmitting not just multimedia but also sensations over the Internet. He decided to start with haptics, the technology of touch, by building a system that would let pet owners send their lonely animals a pat during a busy workday at the office.
Growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Cheok had often played with the chickens kept by his grandfather, so he decided to focus on poultry (rule one). He built haptic jackets for the chickens himself (rule two), embedding them with vibrating elements. Tinkering taught him just how difficult it is to produce a gentle, humanlike touch. “The system develops as you build it,” Cheok says. “I see research as iterative—you’re learning from what you’re making.”
The chicken’s jacket was connected wirelessly to the Internet, and its coop was rigged with a webcam. Then, in his office, Cheok patted a chicken doll that had touch-sensitive sensors, and the squeeze was transmitted to the live bird while he watched. The chicken had been hugged.
Cheok says some of his colleagues weren’t impressed by this unorthodox project: “There were some of the faculty who thought, this is not engineering, let alone research,” he says. But he carried on (rule three) and found appreciative audiences at both international conferences and in the coop. In an experiment with a flock of chickens, 70 percent chose to enter the room where their little jackets would be put on them instead of a room where they’d be left alone.

 

[Beekissed]

Time, money and effort that could have been used on something entirely relevant to easing the suffering of humans...spent on dressing up and hugging chickens. Yay. Shoot me now.

 

[bruceh]

i am chiming in late here. are you folks telling me there is a tv show about chickens and some person hugged a chicken.on the internet/ what the h---ll is wrong here. it is a chicken. plain a simple. chickens are kinda like a pigs with feathers. think about it. they will eat just about anything dead or alive. they walk, sleep in and eat their own crap. you mean to tell me there are people who hug chickens and make tv shows about them. sorry folks to me that is just beyond my comprehension. no i don't get it and i don;t want to get it. i feel it promotes a fad of chickening . i will bet when the fad dies there will be more homes needed for chickens via craigslist then people wanting them. thus creating the spreading of diseases. this in return will set more laws into place about where and how chickens are kept. zoning laws are getting tougher and tougher as it is with out this stupidity.

okay, i am off my rant.


bruce h ,

 

[stonykill]

i am chiming in late here. are you folks telling me there is a tv show about chickens and some person hugged a chicken.on the internet/ what the h---ll is wrong here. it is a chicken. plain a simple. chickens are kinda like a pigs with feathers. think about it. they will eat just about anything dead or alive. they walk, sleep in and eat their own crap. you mean to tell me there are people who hug chickens and make tv shows about them. sorry folks to me that is just beyond my comprehension. no i don't get it and i don;t want to get it. i feel it promotes a fad of chickening . i will bet when the fad dies there will be more homes needed for chickens via craigslist then people wanting them. thus creating the spreading of diseases. this in return will set more laws into place about where and how chickens are kept. zoning laws are getting tougher and tougher as it is with out this stupidity.

okay, i am off my rant.


bruce h ,

 

[arienwolf]

Oh wow, I missed a few days and you all pile 200 posts on me?

Just want to add my own post to the pile!! I feel left out!

Cute Puppy. Keep your family safe against the Big Cat. Call a trapper if it's Illegal to shoot it... or employ the OTS Advise SSS.
Poor chicken...Smart Hawk. Was that a mini fuzzy rooster chasing that cat???? Isn't the "dancing" bad rooster behavior? Hug a chicken over the internet?!?

whatever gives you, your 5 minutes of fame I guess.

Beekissed; Since you live too far away from me, I'd like to let you know that, if I lived close to you, I would STEAL your chickens.

They just seem so ... Nature Savvy.They got those "street smarts" You've used the axe on the right ones.

So I'll do the next best thing... Do You sell fertile eggs from your flock?


My dumbdumbs kept eating and cooing while they "foraged" on wednesday (I think) There was a hawk flying above I had to run to the backyard and shoo 'em in the coop. He's been eyeing them for a-while but it's the first time he has been THAT close. I see him when I go on walks. He usually eats the morning doves 'round here.
Would the Ospreys eat chickens too? I know they like fish... but they are a Hawk. hmmm Ill have to look that up. I have a lot of those around where I live.

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