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Pet Parade: Backyard Chickens Fun and Healthy
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| March 7, 2010
| Marty Englert
Posted on 03/08/2010 7:27:44 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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The 'Mensa' chickens owned by the author, LOL!
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Actually I’ve been thinking about rabbits behind the garage.
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:31:13 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I had a chicken as a pet when growing up. Great pet (smart and lots of personality--if a little domineering)...and she really got along well with the horses, dogs, cats, and squirrel.
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:35:23 AM PST
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself... - D.H. Lawrence)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Chicken make lousy housepet!!!!
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:35:41 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Seriously. The only way Obama can possibly pull this out is to declare Martial Law before November.)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Last years picture I betcha. Isn’t it rather white there right now.
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:38:22 AM PST
by
wita
To: Diana in Wisconsin
As long as they are NOT,NOT,NOT, roosters! Roosters are the most EVIL sleep depriving, sanity robbing,poop piling critters in the world!!!!
To: kalee
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:48:16 AM PST
by
kalee
(The offences we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
To: pawnshop dave
Madison’s “chicken ordinance” specifies only hens, and no more than 4 per residence. And each coop requires a building permit. When the ordinance was first passed, it kept the city planning’s building inspectors busy reviewing blueprints and issuing permits. :-)
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:48:36 AM PST
by
knittnmom
("...only dead fish 'go with the flow'". - Sarah Palin 7/09)
To: pawnshop dave
LOL I had a girlfriend who lived in a trailer on a farm. Nothing more fun than roosters under your floor at 5 AM.
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:50:44 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Buff Orpingtons are a wonderful breed, but I'm partial to Cochins (feathers down to their feet) or Polish (plummed head, tiny barbed wire shaped comb less susceptible to frostbite) or, better yet, a cross between the two.
Our idiotic township still has an ordinance against them which we're eventually going to get repealed. I'd much rather be awakend to a rooster's crow in the morning (hello, it's daylight, you are supposed to get up anyway and wild birds aren't exactly quiet either) than a yapping dog in the middle of the night.
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:52:40 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Lazamataz
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:52:50 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
chicken poop is high in nitrogen and a great source of organic fertilizer Yup but NOT to be used on roses. It will burn them.
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:53:56 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Building the Chicken McMansion...
http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=283812
Four Rhode Island Reds, Two Golden sex-links, and one Pug...
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:57:28 AM PST
by
Bean Counter
(I keeps mah ffigureseathers numbered, for just such an emergency...)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:57:46 AM PST
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Lazamataz
>"Chicken make lousy housepet!!!!"
Yeah, but they're great for a quick snack!
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posted on
03/08/2010 7:59:13 AM PST
by
scoobysnak71
(I'm light skinned with no negro dialect. Could you milk me?)
To: pawnshop dave
As long as they are NOT,NOT,NOT, roosters! Roosters are the most EVIL sleep depriving, sanity robbing,poop piling critters in the world!!!!We've lived in our suburban home for almost 30 years. Folks around here have always had chickens. I love the sounds of roosters crowing.
Peafowl are another thing though.
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:00:06 AM PST
by
steveo
(2010 never again)
To: scoobysnak71
Chickens are good for quick snacks.
Ducks are good for sick quacks.
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:00:44 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Seriously. The only way Obama can possibly pull this out is to declare Martial Law before November.)
To: pawnshop dave
When my daughter went to college, someone there let a rooster looseon the campus.....
Every morning, at 4:45am, the rooster would start screeching directly under her dorm window...
The first day she thought it was quaint....
By the end of the first week her phone calls turned very dark......
She tried chasing it away...LOL...of course that didn’t work.....
One borrowed paintball gun from a friend and frezzing the paintball overnight, a puff of feathers, problem solved.....
After that week I kinda pictured her like Bill Murray in Caddyshack....mumbling to herself and totally obsessed on killing that rooster....
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:01:59 AM PST
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: cripplecreek
Actually Ive been thinking about rabbits behind the garage. Chickens lay better quality eggs than rabbits do.
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posted on
03/08/2010 8:02:07 AM PST
by
Wissa
("So this is how liberty dies... with thunderous applause."-Padme Amidala)
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