Men and chickens.

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Nice one! Is it the Galilee? When did you visit Israel?

I believe it is.
I was in Israel from August 2017 until March 2018.

Brahma Chicken 5000 - I forget your story, were you born in Israel?

No I spent a few months there before starting college.

 

[CCUK]

I guess I and the men I know here must be a bit odd. I've seen men crying here because a predator got their favorite rooster.
I think this men are unemotional is a bit of a stereotype. Maybe American men are more like this.

I've not finished reading the whole thread yet but I think it's a great topic. I am MAN! I like many others was lurking and googling questions and got directed here more often than not. So I thought I may as well join. I'm not on Facebook or any other social media. I do have a YouTube channel but thats more for family living abroad to catch up on. I'm not the most extrovert and like to keep myself and my own mostly. I find that most people particularly the ones I work with just like to berate me because of my love of our feathered friends. They always want eggs but no talky about them. So here is where I find so much solice with like minded people with a common interest. I like to ask questions aswell as the social side of it. To the question I've quoted, I don't feel the need to advertise or prove how manly I am but what I will say is that I have and do partake in some overtly male orientated activities. I find peace in my hens. Some people know that I'm an advocate for rehoming battery hens, well when I first got them, I'll admit this out loud for the first time, that I cried (I don't cry!). It touched something inside me. Seeing the poor hens in such a bad state was really upsetting. There was so many of them. This made me more determined to protect and care for all my hens to the absolute best I can. BYC has helped me so much and people here understand that they are so much more than 'just a chicken'.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I believe it is.
I was in Israel from August 2017 until March 2018.

No I spent a few months there before starting college.

Not to long ago! Have you visited the different parts of the country ?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Not to long ago! Have you visited the different parts of the country ?

Yes it was great!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Yes it was great!

Indeed, we have a compact and beautiful country!

 

[Shadrach]

I've not finished reading the whole thread yet but I think it's a great topic. I am MAN! I like many others was lurking and googling questions and got directed here more often than not. So I thought I may as well join. I'm not on Facebook or any other social media. I do have a YouTube channel but thats more for family living abroad to catch up on. I'm not the most extrovert and like to keep myself and my own mostly. I find that most people particularly the ones I work with just like to berate me because of my love of our feathered friends. They always want eggs but no talky about them. So here is where I find so much solice with like minded people with a common interest. I like to ask questions aswell as the social side of it. To the question I've quoted, I don't feel the need to advertise or prove how manly I am but what I will say is that I have and do partake in some overtly male orientated activities. I find peace in my hens. Some people know that I'm an advocate for rehoming battery hens, well when I first got them, I'll admit this out loud for the first time, that I cried (I don't cry!). It touched something inside me. Seeing the poor hens in such a bad state was really upsetting. There was so many of them. This made me more determined to protect and care for all my hens to the absolute best I can. BYC has helped me so much and people here understand that they are so much more than 'just a chicken'.

Yup, you always get the 'I'm so Macho' types make comments like ' I like eating them, hur, hurr, hurr', when you talk about chickens with any degree of affection. I have to try very hard not to sit such people on their rear ends.
Thankfully you don't get much of that here from the farmers and others who actually work for a living with animals.