The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[GreatBreeder]

Expense- This is where it starts to segregate chickens. Do they expect not to have to feed chickens and provide suitable housing and care!? Why don't they make downsides of every other animal, chickens even give you eggs as a bonus. If you don't want to spend, don't buy.

 

[GreatBreeder]

Garden Damage- If the garden is damaged it's the owner's fault for not researching chickens and gardens. Chickens will do that, dogs dig holes right, cats eat grass right?

 

[GreatBreeder]

Culling- It doesn't have to be like this. If you get a rooster give it to the shelter or get it a new home, and don't cull them along with Hens that you wanted just for laying eggs. Be responsible, if your cat stopped having babies would you chop off it's head!?!?! Chickens are so segregated. Also that's not how meat chickens even work if you give that one to meat keepers they would devour it.

 

[GreatBreeder]

Predators- If you have coyotes and dangerous predators, that's not the chicken's fault. My cat could be killed by a coyote right.

 

[GreatBreeder]

Constant care- Wow just wow. Do they think that the chickens don't need food and can live in filth and that eggs would come to them without them collecting. Every other pet needs it's area cleaned and needs food.

 

[GreatBreeder]

PS maybye I'm just overreacting as a chicken addict but most of these are just calling regular pet care things problems.

 

[GreatBreeder]

Sorry I'm probably being too controversial

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Sorry I'm probably being too controversial

I think the article wants people to know that there are things to consider before getting chickens. They have become quite popular. Many people buy them but they don't know anything about them, and than are surprised by most of the things mentioned in the article.

Chickens are noisy and destructive. Setting up and keeping a big enough coop is expensive. I can definitely buy cheaper eggs in the store than what I produce, and they do require maintenance and I can't just leave them and go on vacation.

If you read enough posts on this site you will start to realize that many new keepers don't even know the basic biology of a chicken, or what it's needs are. They buy those tiny coops, they feed only scratch, they try to keep chickens illegally than are wanting to know how to quiet them down.

Many don't think about diseases, and injuries. Many can't cull or have even imagined that they would have to. So from what I read I think it was a decent article that will hopefully make some people think more before buying chicks in the spring without even having thought about them until they see them in the store and than desire to take some home because they are cute.

 

[Leahs Mom]

@thewatsonfarm
I haven't forgotten that you wanted a recipe. Been super busy and just stopping in quick tonight. I'll try to get something posted for you tomorrow.

 

[GreatBreeder]

Ok.

I think the article wants people to know that there are things to consider before getting chickens. They have become quite popular. Many people buy them but they don't know anything about them, and than are surprised by most of the things mentioned in the article.

Chickens are noisy and destructive. Setting up and keeping a big enough coop is expensive. I can definitely buy cheaper eggs in the store than what I produce, and they do require maintenance and I can't just leave them and go on vacation.

If you read enough posts on this site you will start to realize that many new keepers don't even know the basic biology of a chicken, or what it's needs are. They buy those tiny coops, they feed only scratch, they try to keep chickens illegally than are wanting to know how to quiet them down.

Many don't think about diseases, and injuries. Many can't cull or have even imagined that they would have to. So from what I read I think it was a decent article that will hopefully make some people think more before buying chicks in the spring without even having thought about them until they see them in the store and than desire to take some home because they are cute.