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[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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We found him - he spent the night with the hens! there is an 8' chicken wire wall between the tweens and the hens, and the ceiling is about a foot above that, thought it was high enough! I did not think of looking UP! I thought barnevelders were not supposed to be good flyers.

I'm back to 5 roos I need to re-home, but the kids are happy.

Glad to hear he came back - even if he does need to be re-homed.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Let us know the story. I find these interesting....how some people think and the control issues.

Okay, just saw on my morning news how an "Animal Ethics" group thinks our dogs, cats, etc should not be called "pets" as this term is durogatory...they should be called "Companian animals" and "wildlife" should be referred to as "free range animals", etc, etc, etc. They say that calling them "pets" could influence how other people "treat" them. Can I say 1 thing:

GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!!

Don't these people have anything better to do?

They would, if they would sit down and think long and hard about their place in the universe, their obligations to their fellow humans, and the ways in which their version of the world would be cold, dead, and empty. Or they could grow a sense of humor, but I've given up on that happening.

There are wrongs to struggle against, in the way humans treat animals, but I'm pretty sure Temple Grandin does more good in a single day than PETA, and so on, have done in their entire history, and while keeping her clothes on, too!

I agree. Something tells me that my dogs don't mind being called pets....just don't call them late for dinner. Not sure who Temple Grandin is. And...not sure what "while keeping her clothes on"...has PETA done things without their clothes on? not a PETA fan necessarily, just curious on the comment.

 

[Ogress]

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They would, if they would sit down and think long and hard about their place in the universe, their obligations to their fellow humans, and the ways in which their version of the world would be cold, dead, and empty. Or they could grow a sense of humor, but I've given up on that happening.

There are wrongs to struggle against, in the way humans treat animals, but I'm pretty sure Temple Grandin does more good in a single day than PETA, and so on, have done in their entire history, and while keeping her clothes on, too!

I agree. Something tells me that my dogs don't mind being called pets....just don't call them late for dinner. Not sure who Temple Grandin is. And...not sure what "while keeping her clothes on"...has PETA done things without their clothes on? not a PETA fan necessarily, just curious on the comment.

That reminds me of this video. A friend with Downs Syndrome had it posted on his FB last year:

 

[Ogress]

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They would, if they would sit down and think long and hard about their place in the universe, their obligations to their fellow humans, and the ways in which their version of the world would be cold, dead, and empty. Or they could grow a sense of humor, but I've given up on that happening.

There are wrongs to struggle against, in the way humans treat animals, but I'm pretty sure Temple Grandin does more good in a single day than PETA, and so on, have done in their entire history, and while keeping her clothes on, too!

I agree. Something tells me that my dogs don't mind being called pets....just don't call them late for dinner. Not sure who Temple Grandin is. And...not sure what "while keeping her clothes on"...has PETA done things without their clothes on? not a PETA fan necessarily, just curious on the comment.

Temple Grandin: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin

 

[BarnChick]

ok so anyone want to take a trip to ellensburg. they have some chickens. I know its too far for me to drive. here's the ad.


I have 2 leghorn/standard cochin cross juvenile chickens for $10.00 each (White with a little orange splash in the feathering). One is 2 months old and the other is 3 months old.
I have about 8 standard cochin juvenile birds for sale for $15.00 each. I have mostly black birds but some carry the color gene for silver laced. I do have one silver laced bird that didn't completely lace out, but may produce color well with offspring.

I also have 4 chicks that are 3 weeks old. All cochin crosses and are $10.00 for all 4 chicks - must all go together.

I can email pictures upon request. Thank you. email [email protected]

heres what else they have, same person

I have a breeding set (one cockerel and one pullet) of 9 month old standard (large) Buff Cochins. The set is $40.00.

I have 6 silkie chickens for sale. 5 of them are 4 months old and one is 2.5 months old. There are three known cockerels, 2 known pullets that should start laying and the younger chick's sex is unknown. There colors are partridge, calico, black and blue. The girls are $15.00 and the boys are $10.00.

 

[pettec63]

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yeaaae

 

[BarnChick]

Thanks velvettfog, i looked, but the only one I saw was the one above for ellensburg. I can't drive that far right now. hopefully someone else will take those chickens and give them a home. I am looking for something not quite as mixed or expensive at this point. but glad to know someone is close.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

TouchO'Lass :

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Hmmm, (she said, trying not to smirk...

) I've known a few Kansans. Don't remember how tough-skinnedness they were, tho'...

Keeping in mind that I am NEW! Sorry for your troubles, there, brother! When I need to talk strickly chickens, I go to the other threads! I hope I'm not off-base thinking this is where I meet my 'neighbors' and talk day to day biz.

Boys club, huh? Been called worse!

I say, bring it!! lol!

I like to think of the 'Where am I? Where are you!' thread is like the fence between Wilson and Tim The Tool Man Taylor where anything can be talked about we just can't see faces.​

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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They would, if they would sit down and think long and hard about their place in the universe, their obligations to their fellow humans, and the ways in which their version of the world would be cold, dead, and empty. Or they could grow a sense of humor, but I've given up on that happening.

There are wrongs to struggle against, in the way humans treat animals, but I'm pretty sure Temple Grandin does more good in a single day than PETA, and so on, have done in their entire history, and while keeping her clothes on, too!

I agree. Something tells me that my dogs don't mind being called pets....just don't call them late for dinner. Not sure who Temple Grandin is. And...not sure what "while keeping her clothes on"...has PETA done things without their clothes on? not a PETA fan necessarily, just curious on the comment.

PETA does a whole lot of very exploitative female nudity, yes.

Temple Grandin is my hero. Emmy Award Winning Movie, Wikipedia article, livestock handling site. There's other stuff too, an autism website, several memoirs, a part of Oliver Sack's book An Anthropologist From Mars. For the purposes of this conversation she's done work in the design of livestock handling and holding facilities which has made them less physically and emotionally dangerous for both animals and people, and toughed out the social environment to get her inovations accepted as a women in a very male industry and as a person with a serious neurological difference- or, more farely two of them, because being in the top .001% of the population in IQ (my estimate, not something she brags on like Marilyn Vos Savant) is rarer than being austistic.

When she was doing radio interviews for her book Thinking in Pictures I heard her describe the way animals saw chutes over and over; I made a couple of small modifications to the corral here and cut about 3/4 of the time for worming and vaccinating spring and fall.

 

[pettec63]

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Very cool!! That is a wonderful thing I think keeping bees, I bet the fresh honey is awesome!!