Why do you keep chickens

[Anime2lover]

Why do you keep chickens? Is it for their eggs, the meat, showing them, just having them around I can't wait to find out?!

Why do you keep chickens? Is it for their eggs, the meat, showing them, just having them around I can't wait to find out?!

I selected meat, eggs, qnd breeding, but we also got them for pets and entertainment.

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

I read your little profile thing. Did you just lose a bunch of chickens?

I lost only one a few days ago she was young 11 weeks where did it say on my profile that I lost a chicken not trying to be weird or anything just want to know where you saw it

 

[allenw]

Addiction, bad habit

 

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I lost only one a few days ago she was young 11 weeks where did it say on my profile that I lost a chicken not trying to be weird or anything just want to know where you saw it

Oh, not you, sorry, I was referring to "PippinTheChicken", but I am very sorry to hear that you lost a girl too. I just lost my most specialist, sweetest, 5 years old girl Joy Joy a couple of weeks ago, and then my brother's special girl Penguin 6 days later. I have another girl that has a bad case of prolapsed vent that also means a good fraction of the world to me, I am scared for her life.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

Because my 4 & 5 year old boys are channeling their inner Schwarzenegger and Stallone eating 3-4 eggs each for breakfast. They also already each eat more than I do in a day and all they want to eat is meat,veggies and rice. We go through quite a bit of meat and eggs However, the hens are like pets and the boys have their polish for pets. The chickens help with bugs some, but my ducks are the big foragers.

 

[Happy Novogens]

Haha! I'm the one (only one, so far) that does not have chickens.... yet. I've been wanting to get some for years now but something always seemed to get in the way. Either life was just busy, or we had trips planned and there'd be no one to care for them. We're too far out for trusted people to drive out to our place.

Anyway, with rising food costs and talks of food shortages, that just provided the umph to get me going again. My plan is to start small with just some laying hens (2-3) with the thought that as I get comfortable with caring for them, I can always expand to meat as well.

I'm one that wants all my questions answered before acquiring an animal. I could never impulse buy a (new type of) pet. So here I am on the forum.... learning, learning, learning.

 

[Happy Novogens]

Because my 4 & 5 year old boys are channeling their inner Schwarzenegger and Stallone eating 3-4 eggs each for breakfast. They also already each eat more than I do in a day and all they want to eat is meat,veggies and rice.

...And they'll only eat more as they grow!!! Our 3 boys are grown now but as they moved out, our grocery bill dropped... d r a m a t i c a l l y!

 

[Pampered chicken girl]

Oh, not you, sorry, I was referring to "PippinTheChicken", but I am very sorry to hear that you lost a girl too. I just lost my most specialist, sweetest, 5 years old girl Joy Joy a couple of weeks ago, and then my brother's special girl Penguin 6 days later. I have another girl that has a bad case of prolapsed vent that also means a good fraction of the world to me, I am scared for her life.

Oh so sorry to hear about your chickens. And thanks I miss my little Lucy so much. She was one of my first 4 chick's

 

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Also, I need help with a Maran chick I am worried about but no one is finding the thread