Things you never said until you had chickens.......

[chickencrazy429]

"GOSH Pip when WILL you start laying?!"

 

[seminolewind]

I am so tired of listening to every non-chicken owners story about the rooster that attacked them as a kid, and tired of saying "Wow, really?"

 

[cheeka]

I hear you seminolewind, but I mind less if the story is told at my house, where my roosters are well behaved. I recently had a lady visit who was terrified of chickens. mine were out, and I have to stay nearby, so if she wanted to visit with me without hollering from the neighbors yard... she would have to suck it up and see for herself ~ there is nothing to fear... she was amazed that not a one chased her

or attacked her

she enjoyed herself and asked lots of questions, don't think I scored a convert, but I know her emotional sense of the creature called chicken has completely changed.

today, I had an older gentleman friend visit while the flock was out. he didn't believe that they would eat treats from the hand of a stranger...

before I could get the lens cap off my camera, he was surrounded!

then he had a snuggle with my Prize Broody Mama Peach, a bantam Cochin x EE.

 

[miss-chickie]

" But I can't process him now he's being all cute and dust bathing" and "OMG you have the Polish"

 

[chickencrazy429]

"Aren't your girls' feet FREEZING in that snow?!" My pullets had their first snow today... ^.^

 

[seminolewind]

I hear you seminolewind, but I mind less if the story is told at my house, where my roosters are well behaved. I recently had a lady visit who was terrified of chickens. mine were out, and I have to stay nearby, so if she wanted to visit with me without hollering from the neighbors yard... she would have to suck it up and see for herself ~ there is nothing to fear... she was amazed that not a one chased her

or attacked her

she enjoyed herself and asked lots of questions, don't think I scored a convert, but I know her emotional sense of the creature called chicken has completely changed.

today, I had an older gentleman friend visit while the flock was out. he didn't believe that they would eat treats from the hand of a stranger...

before I could get the lens cap off my camera, he was surrounded!

then he had a snuggle with my Prize Broody Mama Peach, a bantam Cochin x EE.

Nice! That's the way my roos are. That's why I have 8 now, just can't seem to find a reason to rehome them!

That 2nd picture looks like a sure winner for picture of the month!

 

[fosterson]

"Don't MAKE me get the Rake of Death!" (my hens are terrified of a rake...all I have to do is pick it up and they run for the coop.)
"Fugly! Stop trying to brood those eggs!" (Fugly is a 1/2 Silkie rooster)
"Let me get done making breakfast for the girls and I'll start ours."

 

[BunnyLover44]

Start laying or your be lay'n on the stove soon!

Also agree, that chicken poop isnt as bad as dog poop... dog poop smells and doe nothing to help the grass

 

[TXchickmum]

"Noooo! You can't use those - those are the chickens' towels!"
"Don't scoop up that poop yet - I've got to check it for worms."
"That isn't a crow on the roof of the porch...it's a banty!"

 

[cluckcluckgirl]

"I need to take a shower again. A chicken flew in my hair."