unpopular chicken opinions??

[JacinLarkwell]

I don't like dishonesty but I do understand changing your mind about what you're going to do with them.

I don't like the people that insist on seeing every little part of your coop to consider selling you a rooster and want you to have a minimum of hens and no other males

 

[ackie]

I don't like the people that insist on seeing every little part of your coop to consider selling you a rooster and want you to have a minimum of hens and no other males

lol I didnt even ask questions when I sold hens

 

[JacinLarkwell]

lol I didnt even ask questions when I sold hens

I try not to sell females as food, but I consider it a favor taking a male, especially buying one. Whether I'm buying or someone is buying from me, I consider it all a favor

 

[ackie]

I try not to sell females as food, but I consider it a favor taking a male, especially buying one. Whether I'm buying or someone is buying from me, I consider it all a favor

oh they were for eggs. they were definitely not priced to eat. but I mean I didnt like interview them to see if they were great owners. everyone has to start somewhere. the first chicks I bought did not make it but I learned a ton along the way.

 

[ackie]

the first couple I lost in the brooder. bigger ones running over littler ones I guess, overcrowding. several grew up and then predators got them.

I inherited the chicken pens, and I didnt realize that the back wall isnt a wall at all. its half a wall from the roof down half way and then a FENCE with nothing connecting the two. so any predator could climb the fence and get right at the birds. So the first couple losses were from not closing the pen - I thought - but then losing more made me realize what was going on.

 

[JCaseyHammond]

Rescuing chickens, ha, now there's an idea.
From my experience, although extremely limited. Chickens have NO problems finding homes if they lay eggs, Roosters now, thats a different story. I cant see any commercial anything doing away with a chicken in a manner that does not make profit for them. If it gets sick or injured, it gets thrown into cat food, or your discount nuggets at McDogmeats right next to your big mac.

The only real bird rescues that I ever found were the exotics, ie Parrot Rescues of (fill in the state) but no other bird 'types'.

On this, at one time, I used to raise Bearded Dragons, (Friendly Lizards) for those who don't know. Long story short, I asked the Law Enforcement, ok so you kick in the door to some crack head, throw him in jail, what about the pets? If the trailer had dogs / cats' they'd end up in a shelter or whatnot waiting for adoption. Now I KNOW people have other pets too, snakes, LIZARDS... (see where this is going ) birds, etc. What do you do then? The reply was, most of the zoo's take them if they are in decent shape, if it's a bird that's tamed / not psychotic, it'll be snatched up in an instant by many places. They also said that other animals, they know people who'd take them when they need to be rid of them. They also work with the Game Wardens too.

This kind of made sense, I mean, lets look at us. IF someone came up to you and said, hey, I have this chicken that was removed from an abusive / neglectful environment, and you had chickes (which most of us do.....) How many of us would say, well, sure, given the situation, I'll take her in with my flock. I know I would and now that I am part of the Chicken World, I am more attuned to it, so to say, and know many others who have no problems taking in extra chickens.

Rescuing Roosters, yep, a big issue, for obvious reasons, but is there really a need for Hen Rescues, because NO the commercial entities are NOT going to give you ANY type of rescue because that'd be admission of abuse, and you know where that would lead legal and reputation wise. They'd sooner send them to slaughter than admit that publicly. Or make up some BS, they caught XXX and all had to be destroyed etc.

Aaron

P.S Im not trying to make fun of you, this IS a noble thing you want to do, but some things just are not going to happen. Id LOVE to see a Lizard Rescue or Snake Rescue, but, and in Florida this is a BIG problem, NOT going to happen, it's a big pain the ass, because of permitting etc, and them not wanting the things out in the wild because they WILL survive out here, unlike up north where they'd freeze, and cause big problems. We have a huge mess right now with Pythons that people let loose over the years destroying native animal speces.

Interesting! I started with 6 pullets. Then I was asked to take in 12 rescue hens from a hoarding situation 500 birds per acre, indiscriminate breeding. Wow were they in rough shape. Some were from Cackle originally. Fast forward 5 years still have 1 of my original hens, and 6 of the rescues.

 

[333113]

They spelled it wrong, too. I’ve already corrected them on it, yet they continue to spell it incorrectly. Just thought I’d let you know how to spell it correctly.

It's probably stuck in their spell-checker.

 

[333113]

Not necesarily. I have a few breeds with Pea comb do not lay blue eggs, nor should they be laying blue eggs

There's actually no genetic link between combs and egg colors, that I know of.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

There's actually no genetic link between combs and egg colors, that I know of.

There isn't. That's what I'm saying

 

[333113]

Well, if you raise them to what 9 weeks or what is it, you can sell them as food chickens. This is entirely subjective of course. But then again, if they kill the day old chick and turn it into cat food, well, the cat lovers won't mind, or the cat. So when you boil it down and try to remove all the emotions. As long as it's being used somehow and not just thrown in the trash, what makes one age ok to kill but not another? It's not like the chicken is going to be able to 'fight' for it's life and actually win and say ok, be free Mr. Rooster, this 100 acres of pasture is all yours for winning the arena games!

Aaron

It's like Dr. Temple Grandin said, if we didn't eat them, there wouldn't be so many of them.