Strictly pet chickens! Anyone??

[allmypeeps]

rosegal wrote:
Elizabeth, do you know what breed those hens are with the guitar? And do you find them aggressive? I have 6 and sometimes they are just way too adventurous for their own good.

I rescued her off a chicken truck as a pullet before she was thrown into a local egg factory facility.

I have been wondering exactly what she is also- I think she is iether a Comet or a Shaver Red, used to think she was a red-star sex link but I'm just not sure. she is a Pullet here still and has lost the white flecking and is now a solid golden red.

She is HIGHLY food motivated, but sweet sweet disposition- very inquizitive and likes to be in your business! We had another one too, also rescued from the same facility with the same personality. Just can't scare em' away!!! My husband was building a deck and I finally had to put Bunny and Delilah away as they were following him up ladders and walking right on the boards he was sawing- the noise never bothered them.

We would take Bunny for a walk in the park (no leash) she would just follow us. We didnt have them as babies as I said we rescued them as pullets and I KNOW they were not loved and handled being raised factory birds- so that tells ya how friendly they naturally are!

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[RachelFromTheBlackLagoon]

That's an awesome story. I hope my future chickens are so sociable!

I have a cat named Bunny. People make fun of me for it, but I think it's a great name.

 

[Lobzi]

Isnt that something about the noise not seeming to discourage a companion chicken. Chickie is the same with me as I sand my deck. At first he was a little intimidated by the sander, but after time, he realized it was not a threat. He just wants so bad to be with me, that even with all the noise, he stands nearby as I am working. Its really something.

 

[allmypeeps]

I love rabbits and had them as a child until I suddenly grew HIGHLY allergic. (apparently your body chemistry changes every 7 years??)

anyway, when I got my first city hen I was following this 18wheeler truck (full of feathered 'sarines'). it was freezing- snowwy february, I was folowing it for a while and just couldnt bare it...all those little eyes looking at me..pleading- save me! so I skipped my turn and kept following it. It eventually pulled into this warehouse like building with no windows- just vents. there were 4 more trucks all packed with little red hens. men in suits and gas masks were grabbing chickens up by their feet and just throwing them into the warehouse, tossing dead ones in a pile.

I dont know WHY I folowed it- it only confirmed what I already assumed. I couldnt just drive away now though so I asked to buy one. the truck driver laughed at me and tld me they werent his to sell but grabbed one up and gave her to me.

That was how I got 'Bunny' the only bunny I'm not allegic to. LOL

Delilah, with the guitar, I found on the side of the road two februaries later on the side of the road, frozen with fear and scunned with road rash. It was the same time of year, same road that the chicken truck takes, same chicken w/ docked beak, so I figure she somehow fell off the truck.

what luck!

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Our chickens are pets only. We enjoy them. None of ours are old enough to lay yet, but some will be within the next few months. We plan to keep ours for pets & eggs only.

I have nothing against people raising their own meat chickens, but I get attached to animals and can't eat anything I have raised. There would be benefits, such as the fact that you would know how the chicken was raised & fed & it would be free of hormones and other bad stuff you might get from buying chicken at the grocery store. I just can't eat my pets, though. Some people have suggested just not petting them and getting attached, but that's impossible for me!

 

[Dixiedoodle]

My chickens will be eye candy, entertainment and eggs only... we (my entire family) have a really hard time not falling in love with the animals...

So, there is no fooling ourselves anymore... Anything we that we raise and take care of will be pets.

 

[lovemychix]

I couldn't ever eat mine.

Mine get back rubs at night time! I get a lot of eggs.

 

[allmypeeps]

I thought about raising meat....I hate the thought of animals living a miserable factory life.

But like others said....I am just personally not strong enough to do it. creepy spiders are the only things I can kill...wait aminute....I don't even do THAT- I have my husband do it...but thats because I am to AFRAID of them to do it!

 

[Britchick]

My babies are pets and the eggs are a bonus. I just love 'em. My husband tells people that my chickens will be using walkers and canes to free range the property when they are old lol.

There is just something so relaxing about chickens.....I could sit and watch them all day.

 

[The Poultry Peanut]

Our hens are pets as well as my bantam roos but last year we (my mom and dad) ordered 15 cuckoo marans st. run and 13 turned out to be roos.....they went to the freezer

but the hens are pets.