I started with 2 buff hens from the flea market. One of the hens were caught by somthing. After a nice expensive fence and henhouse, I now have around 100 chickens of all sizes. My friends laugh at my chicken addiction but who cares, life is short so enjoy it. I just bought a white frizzle chick this weekend. What is one more anyway?!
How'd you get your first chicken?
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My obcession started when the Easter bunny brought 4 chicks to my kids...lol. Two years later i have 2 of those original chicks which turned out to be twin new hampshire red roosters and the family has GROWN!! Now I have 2 old english banty (hen/roo), 1 game hen (sitting on 15 eggs), 5 silkies, 2 sultans, 2 NH red hens & 2 NH red chicks, 4 wyandottes, 1 frizzle cochin roo, 4 guineas...cant wait for the 15 to hatch
This Spring my hubby built me the BEST coop for my babies...complete with a built in seat for me to "chill with my peeps" inside and a bench in the pen out back to sit with them while outside as well.
This Spring my hubby built me the BEST coop for my babies...complete with a built in seat for me to "chill with my peeps" inside and a bench in the pen out back to sit with them while outside as well.
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No, some of the people sell their birds after they show them. Probably because they didn't do as well as they would want, but to me they were my first chickens and were perfect!
No, some of the people sell their birds after they show them. Probably because they didn't do as well as they would want, but to me they were my first chickens and were perfect!
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This is kinda harsh but one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Heh. This reminds me of how I got my first chicken.
This is kinda harsh but one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Heh. This reminds me of how I got my first chicken.
got our first 5 chicks the week my DH got home from the hospital after his heart attack. they were to keep him company during his convalescence.
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My husband came home with this big grin on his face. Kind of like you see from a five year old in the candy store who has been set free.
He was carrying a box. He said come look what I bought! He opened it up and there 9 chicks.
He had been at the tractor supply warehouse to buy dog food but they were so cutteeeeee as he put it he just had to have one. But then he couldn't make up his mind which one so he came home with them all.
That is also how we go the other 4 chicks, 3 dogs and a turtle. No kidding!
This is even more amussing when you see my husband at 6"7 and is bald. He just doesn't look the type for cute. LOL
He was carrying a box. He said come look what I bought! He opened it up and there 9 chicks.
He had been at the tractor supply warehouse to buy dog food but they were so cutteeeeee as he put it he just had to have one. But then he couldn't make up his mind which one so he came home with them all.
That is also how we go the other 4 chicks, 3 dogs and a turtle. No kidding!
This is even more amussing when you see my husband at 6"7 and is bald. He just doesn't look the type for cute. LOL
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A friend gave me some banties and thats when it all went down hill.
When I was about 16, My Daddy brought home my first chickens that were officially mine. They were Kelso games. I still wish I had them.
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I was driving home from work one day and was following a chicken truck full of sardine packed red hens. It was freezing and snowing in February. I followed the truck for like a half hour and felt just awful for those hens.
When the truck turned I decided to follow it. I dont even know why I did! But when it finally stopped it came to a huge warehouse and there were 4 more tractor trailer truck just like it all packed with hens. Guys in gas masks and hazard suits were roughly grabbing hens by their feet and throwing them into the warehouse, tossing the dead ones aside.
I felt so horrible I didnt know what I expected to see...happy hens pecking in a field of green grass....maybe in chicken heaven- but NOT at 'Grampa's Farm Fresh Eggs'. I couldnt just drive away...so I went up to one of the truck drivers and asked if I could buy a hen.
He said they werent his to sell, and they werent worth the $10 I had offered. As a gas masked worker was ready to toss another hen, he was motioned to stop and bring her to me. They said they could get in big trouble because it wasnt their chickens so told me to drive away fast.
I set her on the passenger seat beside me- I couldnt tell if the poor thing was frozen with FEAR or from the cold. She didnt budge the whole way. She was a factory replacement pullet- a red star I think.
I gave her a bath when I got home to get the caked feces and stench off her feathers and blowed her with the hair dryer- which she seemed to really enjoy.
I didnt have anywhere to keep her and I lived in the city, so I put her in a cozy dog crate for the night which I guess wasnt latched tight- because when I woke in the moring she was perched atop my husband's side fast asleep in bed with us!!!!!
Thats the story of 'Bunny' our rescued hen....
I was driving home from work one day and was following a chicken truck full of sardine packed red hens. It was freezing and snowing in February. I followed the truck for like a half hour and felt just awful for those hens.
When the truck turned I decided to follow it. I dont even know why I did! But when it finally stopped it came to a huge warehouse and there were 4 more tractor trailer truck just like it all packed with hens. Guys in gas masks and hazard suits were roughly grabbing hens by their feet and throwing them into the warehouse, tossing the dead ones aside.
I felt so horrible I didnt know what I expected to see...happy hens pecking in a field of green grass....maybe in chicken heaven- but NOT at 'Grampa's Farm Fresh Eggs'. I couldnt just drive away...so I went up to one of the truck drivers and asked if I could buy a hen.
He said they werent his to sell, and they werent worth the $10 I had offered. As a gas masked worker was ready to toss another hen, he was motioned to stop and bring her to me. They said they could get in big trouble because it wasnt their chickens so told me to drive away fast.
I set her on the passenger seat beside me- I couldnt tell if the poor thing was frozen with FEAR or from the cold. She didnt budge the whole way. She was a factory replacement pullet- a red star I think.
I gave her a bath when I got home to get the caked feces and stench off her feathers and blowed her with the hair dryer- which she seemed to really enjoy.
I didnt have anywhere to keep her and I lived in the city, so I put her in a cozy dog crate for the night which I guess wasnt latched tight- because when I woke in the moring she was perched atop my husband's side fast asleep in bed with us!!!!!
Thats the story of 'Bunny' our rescued hen....
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