My first chickens!!

[Ragna]

This was my first time owning chickens. Our family has a poultry shop where they kill them but I never really cared until now. I have a road island red and a new Hampshire red (I think) since the time I first got them I've fallen so deeply in love with these two birds... They are the cutest little animals I've ever met... I never knew chickens could have the personalities that they do. My NHR chicken has been sick for awhile so occasionally I let her snuggle with me inside in the AC. My other chicken gets so jealous and it doesn't take too long before she flies on me and lays on my chest

These girls are the loves of my life... And I'm starting to get very mad when people say "WHAT??? YOU SPENT 250 ON A VET VISIT FOR A CHICKEN???" I love them so much of course I'd do everything I could to save them... I don't know why people learn to humanize and love dogs or cats but all other animals are seen as nothing but food... It's true you can eat them but you could eat humans if you wanted to :l I've been thinking I should stop eating meat because how much I'm starting to love them. They're the sweetest things.

People keep calling me weird for spending so much time with them.. or Money at the vet for them to get better. I don't understand why I have to be weird for loving animals so much.. I don't understand why some people are so insensitive to them just because they aren't humans... I don't have the ability to save every chicken in the world but these are MY chickens... I've accepted them into my life I made the commitment to take care of them and people act like I'm some weirdo for spending a few hundred to help them get well. I don't want to be weird I just love them!!

I woke up in the middle of the night and I saw a shadow figure on the chair next to me couch I took my phone and flashed my light at it and it was my beautiful chicken being a creep standing there while I slept she's sick so i let her sleep inside because it's Florida and way too hot outside for a sick chicken. Anyways it was really cute but a little creepy like she was planning on killing me while I slept. I woke up and I was like "girl what are you doing?!?"

 

[drumstick diva]

You sound like a very conscientious chicken person . You take their ownership very seriously. Some people are ready to ax them at first sneeze. The people who make fun of you do not need to know you took any to the vet, or how much you spent. I wouldn't say much to them about chickens. You can come and post on BYC as often as you like and we will never make fun of you or your birds. I hope your hen is doing better.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

What are they sick with?

 

[Ragna]

What are they sick with?

I never asked the vet exactly what it was it was a respiratory infection she took doxycycline

 

[lena_]

Aww, they are cute. You are taking owning them very seriously which is excellent. They are both lucky to have you.

 

[BY Bob]

Nothing matters but how you feel. You treat them as you like. They are your responsibility and no one else's. Do not let other's judgements get you down. There are always people who will disagree with anything you do. You will never make everyone happy. Just be the best you that you can be.

FYI: I too have taken a hen to the vet and I will never regret it.

 

[N F C]

BYC is the best place for sharing your chicken-keeping stories...no one here will think you're strange, we're all animal lovers of one kind or another.

I'm glad you're getting so much enjoyment from your chickens and taking such conscientious care of them!

 

[Scorpy89]

In other countries people eat dogs and cats, yet here we coddle them in the US. It snowed last winter where I am. I have dog, who wasn't a year old in the house with me, he was sort of sickly and needed extra care, most of the time our animals stay outside. He even sleeps in the bed with me. That's never happened before. Well, I bought booties and a sweater for him, my family goads me for it. He won't use a puppy pad, and he won't go outside if its raining too hard. I didn't want him going in the house because he didn't like the snow. Oh, and he doesn't have an undercoat, that's why I bought the sweater. He's much bigger this year. Still doesn't like getting wet. So now he has a rain coat, which he gets excited about when I take it out. Everybody's different in how they handle their animals. I just hatched a duckling the 13th, and that's all I've talking about since then. People at work tease me about it, but I know that they just don't understand my feelings about it. So, like others have stated, you're not alone in that regard.