FREE RANGE feed.......What about a list of Dangerous pants for chiciks

[Peppermint]

A.T. Hagan :

What about a list of Dangerous pants for chiciks

Unless they are speckled, pencilled, or laced then plaid pants are right OUT.

Orange does not look good on anyone.

Only white birds should wear yellow.

Everyone is safe with good old basic black.

I recommend all chickens should stick with skinny britches (otherwise known as "bird legs.") Bell bottoms would be danger though hilarious.​

 

[dntd]

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I've seen them eat rhubarb leafs and styrofoam!

 

[Prodigal son]

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well the first thing that popped into my head was anything made of the fuzzy velour especially purple and pink... then I realized you means foliage! lol... sorry couldn't resist!

I have chickens, geese and turkeys.. so it may not be specific to just chickens but I hear rhubarb and tomato leaves are a no no... there was a thread not so long ago you could try and search... I tried but don't have time to search right now.

LOL! I (in my twisted mind) thought the same thing when I read the thread title! FWIW, I had one of my birds come out of the coop one morning sporting a pair of black leather pants and I had to admit, she looked pretty darned good...

 

[digitS']

Hmm

. You know, feathers can be fairly dangerous on pants, also. I didn't have a chance to link to this in 2008

: Dangerous Pants!!

After 2 years, Cornell has moved that webpage . . . well, I'll fix it

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Oh, and off topic: we can't assume that they are smart enuf to not eat "anything" that is of danger to them. "Hardware disease" kills plenty of the birdbrains each year.

Steve

 

[drunkdog]

ok then specifically ...morning glory? the crap is all over my fenceline

 

[digitS']

Neither bindweed nor morning glory (Convolvulus) are on the Cornell or Merck sites.

Nor is it on the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine site.

Heavenly Blue and Pearly Gates morning glory (Ipomoea tricolor) shows up on Poisonous Plants of North Carolina, North Carolina State University. Convolvulus is not there. The cultivars are listed under "Severity" as "causes only low toxicity if eaten."

Steve

 

[slickchik]

Chickens are funny in that they will eat some things down to a nub but leave other plants alone... they seem to know what not to eat.

 

[gritsar]

digitS' :

we can't assume that they are smart enuf to not eat "anything" that is of danger to them. "Hardware disease" kills plenty of the birdbrains each year.

Steve

Just for the record, Hardware disease is the common name for bovine traumatic reticulopericarditis. It's a "disease" that primarily hits cows. Knowing the cows on this farm, I don't find that hard to believe at all. Bunch of stupid critters.
True I had a hen eat a piece of broken glass year before last, but that's only because she picked it up to investigate it and I freaked and tried to take it from her; which caused her to swallow it. She reacted as she would had I been another hen trying to take a tasty treat away from her. Left alone with her find, I'm sure she would have spit it back out.​

 

[digitS']

". . .a piece of a hose clamp, a few metal bbs, some staples, etc."

". . . a ROOFING NAIL"

". . . a wood screw."

"One hundred and fifteen objects including several screws, nails, wire, pieces of glass, linoleum and a bullet."

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[gritsar]

digitS' :

". . .a piece of a hose clamp, a few metal bbs, some staples, etc."

". . . a ROOFING NAIL"

". . . a wood screw."

"One hundred and fifteen objects including several screws, nails, wire, pieces of glass, linoleum and a bullet."

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Which is precisely why I used the words "Just for the record" and "It's a "disease" that primarily hits cows".

Also for the record,

my DH informs me that in this farms 40+year history of keeping chickens in commercial houses, backyard flocks or a combination of the two (back in the 70s, his mom kept a secret flock of layers in the backyard, even though they had commercial houses at the time), he knows of zero incidences of hardware disease in chickens. Cows yes, chickens no. I'm sure it does happen, but not on a regular basis the way it does in cows. Four cows on this farm got hit with it this past spring. Dumb creatures.