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Why You Should Keep Backyard Chickens
The Federalist ^
| April 6, 2016
| Daniel Payne
Posted on 04/07/2016 12:11:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you can play host to backyard chickens, you should. Who here has some backyard chickens flying around? I know Ted Cruz has a flock of female chickens.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:17:16 AM PDT
by
Mr Apple
(http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3249109/posts)
To: Mr Apple
I find that men who are obsessed with another man’s sex life tend to be, how shall we say, not the most heterosexual in the world...
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They wouldn’t last long with me... They’re too tasty.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:24:46 AM PDT
by
Bullish
(Face it, insanity is just not presidential.x)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; Bullish
I had a neighbor years ago who had them roaming around his front yard.
Not exactly the ideal Brooklyn pet.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:27:55 AM PDT
by
OddLane
To: Bullish
I overfed my first batch when I was a teenager and there was a layer of fat between the skin and the meat.
chickens help keep down on ticks which carry lyme disease- guinne foul do too-
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:34:36 AM PDT
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Bob434
To: 2ndDivisionVet
None of us knows for sure. Cruz might just turn out to be your average common tranny.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:35:06 AM PDT
by
Mr Apple
(http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3249109/posts)
To: Bob434
not to mention they keep down other destructive insects as well- they help rototill your garden (as they are constantly scratchign the dirt) and they help fertilize the lawn- plus they taste great- and the eggs are good and fresh- whats’ not to like?
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:36:00 AM PDT
by
Bob434
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Reminds me of the cartoon from 1932: “A Chicken in Every Garage.”
To: Bob434
I have several friends who did the ‘backyard chicken’ thing.
Not a one lasted 2 years.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:46:02 AM PDT
by
glasseye
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Backyard chickens keep the coyotes from eating cats, Yorkies and Chihuahuas; until you run out of chickens.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:50:06 AM PDT
by
Nachoman
(My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
To: glasseye
I have several friends who did the backyard chicken thing. Not a one lasted 2 years.Then he didn't do well by them. Chickens are naturally healthy and hardy but also totally defenseless against those who will gladly kill them, which is basically every other animal. You can't just "have chickens". They need a very secure coop that protects them.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Raising chickens is often subject to local laws. Three healthy egg-laying hens will provide two or three years of plentiful eggs for a single family.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:58:30 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: Bob434
For eggs, maybe, but I couldn’t bear to kill one.
I’d have made pets of the all.
Have you ever heard hens ‘sing’? So cute.
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posted on
04/07/2016 12:58:52 AM PDT
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patriot08
(5th generation Texan ...(girl type))
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have 3 Ameruacana’s. They run free and I built them a nice safe coop that they have to fly up to enter. They make me laugh every day.
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posted on
04/07/2016 1:01:49 AM PDT
by
kik5150
(Cruz argued 9 times before Supreme Court judges. Trump argues with beauty pageant judges.)
To: SpaceBar
Also, hens are quiet. Roosters are the noisy ones.
Unless you are breeding foul, there is no reason to keep roosters.
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posted on
04/07/2016 1:03:03 AM PDT
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SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
Also, hens are quiet. Roosters are the noisy ones.Well, except for their crazy cackling after they lay an egg. :)
I miss my hens.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If you really don’t like your neighbors, buy a couple dozen guineas instead. Plus they are are more adept to avoid your dogs who love chicken.
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posted on
04/07/2016 1:09:59 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
To: SpaceBar
Raising chickens is often subject to local laws.By default is a place I wouldn't live in the first place.
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posted on
04/07/2016 1:11:59 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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