Posted on 09/10/2016 9:26:15 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I’m tired of politics; I’m going to throw caution to the wind and go find a chicken to hug! :)
You’re a real softie, chickens need love too. ;-)
lol... try a turtle instead!
That's the best advice I've received all year..........
WHAT? I just bought a dozen baby chicks two days ago! They are doing fine.
What? No choke your chicken jokes?
There is another disease-histoplasmosis. You get it from chickens and it can screw up your lungs royally. Mine look like I was shot with a shotgun from it
I remember fifty years ago when everyone was buying baby turtles with painted shells. Then came the Salmonella scare and the warnings that the paint could deform the shells.
Now you never see them anymore.
Guess I will have to hatch some “Sea Monkeys!” if it is not “reisist”.
Something is different. I don’t recall these problems with the chickens running around my grandfathers barnyard long long ago.
I like to name my chickens before I eat them.
Something hugged mine last night and then some. Had 15 in an old shed. Coop latch broken, door busted open.
We think it was a bear.
Nuts.
Now the calves and piglets, it takes an effort not to get attached to them.
#ChickensLivesMatter
Exactly. I’ve raised chickens for over 20 years. Never ONE problem in all that time - and we’ve eaten them, eaten their eggs, my kids were always playing with them, no one in my household has EVER gotten sick from chickens.
I’m not saying you can’t get sick; it’s just never happened to us, and we were not 100% scrupulous or hygienic about it, either. Of course, no chickens in the house...we had three dogs and two cats at any given time, LOL!
Maybe people’s immune systems are weak these days, due to a lack of fresh air and sunshine? ;)
Oh, no! I’ve had that problem in the past with raccoons. My last two laying hens, ‘Cagney & Lacey’ were the last two to go. *SNIF*
I don’t have hens right now - waiting for Beau to build the new pole barn as I’m taking over a corner of it for laying and roasting hen production.
I think this article says that if you eat chicken _hit that you’ll get sick.
We always seemed to know that was a bad idea.
Without the government telling us.
I have one chicken that lays eggs in my bathtub. Many times I think a chicken is missing, only to find her in the attic. My chickens are TOO domesticated. Maybe if I lined their coop with satin sheets, they'd stay out of my house.
I don't see why anyone would kiss a chicken. Those beaks can poke an eye out.
Hugging a chicken? Nothing soft and cuddly about feathers.
I’ve raised chickens (and quai, and pheasants) for over 60 years. Never have had an urge to hug, stroke, or kiss them. They are mean, stupid creatures that convert feed to noise and eggs.
TC
Chickens are the first pets some children have as their very own pet. They learn how to feed and not fear the birds. Stay away from the Rooster, when he gets mad. They have those sharp spurs.
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