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

[Leahs Mom]

Eh, I was being dramatic, truth is I haven't had a social life in years.

Do you need to talk about it? There's help for that you know...

ETA...I AM just joking ......

 

[bruceh]

okay i founds fred's chicken at the local disco

and later that night fred;s chicken playing pool

and this one " the sound of chickens "

and my favorite rapping rooster

http://www.youtube.com/user/LetMeKnowASAP/featured?v=ociZCBZpvw0

and bee fermented feed gone very wrong

that is it for me folks i am done. enjoy

 

[smyers32]

Haha, I can't afford that kind of help!! Instead I just buy more animals....much cheaper.(that was a joke....BIG joke)

Bee- those videos..the muppets AND the ghost chickens in the sky...made my night, soooooo funny!!! I've been wondering what 'showgirl' chickens look like, now I know thanks to Jim Henson!!

 

[smyers32]

So that reminded me to google 'showgirl chickens'........O-M-G...HIDEOUS!!!! I'm going to have nightmares...and I might actually need that 'help' leahsmom suggested....

 

[flower]

So that reminded me to google 'showgirl chickens'........O-M-G...HIDEOUS!!!! I'm going to have nightmares...and I might actually need that 'help' leahsmom suggested....

It is a matter of opinion on looks and vigor. Showgirls make just as good foo-foo loofas as regualr silkies and are just as cold hardy and in-fact see better.

I have NN chcikens, which have 1/3 less feathers, lay large eggs, are LARGE AND HARDY and taste just fine. Some do not like their looks, other think that they are just dandy including any type of foo-foo creations. In fact they look just like the muppets and big bird. Take a look all of life is a cartoon !

 

[flower]

Hey bruceh thanks for the You-tube videos. Liked http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20258175"Bees fermented feed goes wrong !!!! TERRRIFIC !!!"

I used to live in Hereford Pa, Hanover twp. Is Hanover in Hanover twp. ? beautiful country, what is left of it that is

 

[Mountain Momma]

Haha, I can't afford that kind of help!! Instead I just buy more animals....much cheaper.(that was a joke....BIG joke)
Bee- those videos..the muppets AND the ghost chickens in the sky...made my night, soooooo funny!!! I've been wondering what 'showgirl' chickens look like, now I know thanks to Jim Henson!!

42 gut busters....you guys are on a roll.
A couple weeks ago the school maint guy raked up about 8 huge bags of aspen leaves. Sheila, another chickener already had spoken for them. So Thrs he was raking up all the pine droppings and I spoke for them with him and the receptionist (you know, friendly lady that runs the school). Well they were lined up at 9:15, by 9:20when he went to ffind them since they were gone when i got back there- they were gone! The poor maint guy had no idea who took them....
We were in front of the school store and I said" so what your telling me is "All the leaves are gone.. and the sky is grey?"" Well, (if I wasnt so terribly tone deaf) but it was very funny esp in light of the music turn you all have taken!
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[galefrances]

And I don't remember who suggested it, or on which one of Bee's threads, but I found a stall nameplate today with one of my former horse's name on it... Im seriously thinking about repainting it to say "What Would Bee Do?" and hanging it on my coop door as a reminder to let chickens "bee" chickens!

Really great idea!

 

[thedragonlady]

I just looked at your pictures, what a nice setup! Looks like the hops did well, how close together did you plant them?

Hops are extremely hardy, and long lived. I planted mine 8 feet apart. Those photos are of the vines before they really got established. I hope I get some root sprouts this spring to plant on the other run end. One vine will cover AT LEAST a 10 x10 foot area. I've seen them climb to 20 feet tall in England. The Golden Hops is an ornamental, but does produce hops if you want to make beer too. It will NOT come true from seed. No reason that beer hops wouldn't work either.

 

[Pozees]

Hops are extremely hardy, and long lived. I planted mine 8 feet apart. Those photos are of the vines before they really got established. I hope I get some root sprouts this spring to plant on the other run end. One vine will cover AT LEAST a 10 x10 foot area. I've seen them climb to 20 feet tall in England. The Golden Hops is an ornamental, but does produce hops if you want to make beer too. It will NOT come true from seed. No reason that beer hops wouldn't work either.

I'm definitely going to try them next spring! Thank you for sharing your idea!