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sf > wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:54:15 -0500, Omelet >
> wrote:
>
> >When you purchase chicks from a hatchery, it is worth the extra cost to
> >get pre-sexed chicks so you can get pullets only.
>
> There are always mistakes! How many depends on how lucky you are.

True. :-) Results are only guaranteed 99% of the time. My local feed
store used Privet hatchery and out of the 200 or more sexed chicks I
bought from them over the 15 years or so I had chickens, I only ever got
2 roosters. 1 barred rock (which was a lovely, very tame bird) and one
white leghorn. Any other roosters I had (and slaughtered) were hatched
here from nests hidden by some "wild" game hens that flew into my yard
and joined my flock.

Those were some VERY hardy birds! One mom and chick we watched (only
one out of her three chicks survived the first week) had the baby chick
climbing a tree with momma hen at about 1 week of age. It was amazing to
watch.
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In article >,
George Shirley > wrote:

> Nancy Young wrote:
> > George Shirley wrote:
> >> Nancy Young wrote:
> >
> >>> This thread reminds me of a sign on a house I pass by now and
> >>> again. Chickens for sale. PETS ONLY!!
> >>> Raises questions. If they lay eggs, can I eat those? Are they some
> >>> special kind of chickens not good for eating, and do you check up
> >>> on them?
> >>>
> >>> Just goofing. It amused me that they would have to add PETS ONLY,
> >>> like they had people stopping in expecting them to butcher a chicken
> >>> for them. What did they expect in a residential neighborhood.
> >
> >> Wonder what they would think if you stopped and bought a chicken and
> >> then sacrificed it on their front lawn while doing a voodoo dance?
> >
> > (laugh) I think they'd be traumatized. I hate to tell them, I don't
> > know anyone who has pet chickens, I don't think there's a huge market
> > for them. Maybe the local 4H Club.
> > nancy
> I was in 4H as a kid and so were my kids. 4H kids generally understand
> that the critters they're raising are meant to be eaten. Those that
> don't understand that don't stay in 4H long.

Same goes for FFA.
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Mark Thorson > wrote:

> zxcvbob wrote:
> >
> > I'm still wondering what kind of names Mark is gonna give those garden
> > slugs. ;-)
>
> I'll name them after people in rfc.

ROFL!!!

Be sure to take a pic of Om the slug for me before you squash it. ;-)
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In article >,
"Nancy Young" > wrote:

> George Shirley wrote:
> > Nancy Young wrote:
> >> George Shirley wrote:
>
> >>>> Just goofing. It amused me that they would have to add PETS ONLY,
> >>>> like they had people stopping in expecting them to butcher a
> >>>> chicken for them. What did they expect in a residential
> >>>> neighborhood.
> >>
> >>> Wonder what they would think if you stopped and bought a chicken and
> >>> then sacrificed it on their front lawn while doing a voodoo dance?
> >>
> >> (laugh) I think they'd be traumatized. I hate to tell them, I don't
> >> know anyone who has pet chickens, I don't think there's a huge market
> >> for them. Maybe the local 4H Club.
>
> > I was in 4H as a kid and so were my kids. 4H kids generally understand
> > that the critters they're raising are meant to be eaten. Those that
> > don't understand that don't stay in 4H long.
>
> I went to a couple of country fair type things lately, that's the only
> place I ever saw pampered and named chickens. But they didn't
> look like the eating kind, they looked like the decorative variety.
>
> I'm sure there is no such thing, of course.
>
> nancy

Heh! I fooled around with raising silkie bantams for awhile, but did
end up eating some of the roosters. My favorite "decorative" pet
chickens were cochin bantams in both smooth and frizzled varieties.

I still miss those. Some of them were so tiny, they weighed about 2 lbs.
live weight.
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Nancy Young wrote:
> George Shirley wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>> George Shirley wrote:
>
>>>>> Just goofing. It amused me that they would have to add PETS ONLY,
>>>>> like they had people stopping in expecting them to butcher a
>>>>> chicken for them. What did they expect in a residential
>>>>> neighborhood.
>>>
>>>> Wonder what they would think if you stopped and bought a chicken and
>>>> then sacrificed it on their front lawn while doing a voodoo dance?
>>>
>>> (laugh) I think they'd be traumatized. I hate to tell them, I don't
>>> know anyone who has pet chickens, I don't think there's a huge market
>>> for them. Maybe the local 4H Club.
>
>> I was in 4H as a kid and so were my kids. 4H kids generally understand
>> that the critters they're raising are meant to be eaten. Those that
>> don't understand that don't stay in 4H long.
>
> I went to a couple of country fair type things lately, that's the only
> place I ever saw pampered and named chickens. But they didn't look like
> the eating kind, they looked like the decorative variety.
>
> I'm sure there is no such thing, of course.
>
> nancy
No, you're right, there are several varieties of decorative chickens. We
had some at one time, ours were feather footed bantams, they also had a
topknot. Their skin was black which made for a weird looking carcass
when you butchered them for the table. Still, they tasted like regular
chickens, only smaller. Then there's a variety that lays colored eggs,
locally called Easter egg chickens, those are also small and strange
looking but have pretty pastel blue, green, and pink eggs.

Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>> George Shirley wrote:
>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>> This thread reminds me of a sign on a house I pass by now and
>>>>> again. Chickens for sale. PETS ONLY!!
>>>>> Raises questions. If they lay eggs, can I eat those? Are they some
>>>>> special kind of chickens not good for eating, and do you check up
>>>>> on them?
>>>>>
>>>>> Just goofing. It amused me that they would have to add PETS ONLY,
>>>>> like they had people stopping in expecting them to butcher a chicken
>>>>> for them. What did they expect in a residential neighborhood.
>>>> Wonder what they would think if you stopped and bought a chicken and
>>>> then sacrificed it on their front lawn while doing a voodoo dance?
>>> (laugh) I think they'd be traumatized. I hate to tell them, I don't
>>> know anyone who has pet chickens, I don't think there's a huge market
>>> for them. Maybe the local 4H Club.
>>> nancy
>> I was in 4H as a kid and so were my kids. 4H kids generally understand
>> that the critters they're raising are meant to be eaten. Those that
>> don't understand that don't stay in 4H long.
>
> Same goes for FFA.
Our FFA chapter raised larger livestock mostly. Along with learning to
arc and gas weld plus how to repair tractors. Our community was loaded
with rice farmers and dairy farms.

In article >,
George Shirley > wrote:

> Our FFA chapter raised larger livestock mostly. Along with learning to
> arc and gas weld plus how to repair tractors. Our community was loaded
> with rice farmers and dairy farms.

I was in FFA in high school. I raised goats. They also had areas at the
high school ag farm for pigs, cattle, chickens, rabbits and sheep.

My teacher, Professor Bins, raised suffolk sheep.
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Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
>> Our FFA chapter raised larger livestock mostly. Along with learning to
>> arc and gas weld plus how to repair tractors. Our community was loaded
>> with rice farmers and dairy farms.
>
> I was in FFA in high school. I raised goats. They also had areas at the
> high school ag farm for pigs, cattle, chickens, rabbits and sheep.
>
> My teacher, Professor Bins, raised suffolk sheep.

My last ag project was an Angus bull calf. Raised him to 18 months and
sold him for a herd bull. My take was $200.00, a large sum at the time.

Friend of mine had California rabbits, meat type. He won Best in Show
and best meat pen at the Houston Livestock Show and won enough money to
put himself through college. He graduated high school the year after me,
in 1958. Became an aeronautical engineer, worked for Boeing for 20 years
with lots of "furloughs" and then went back to school and became a
pharmacist, has done well with that. All that from four rabbits. Of
course Texas state colleges were cheap back then.

I've seen other FFA and 4H kids win big bucks at livestock shows and
state fairs and go on to do well for themselves. Mine just enjoyed
themselves and depended on dear old Dad for college.

In article >,
George Shirley > wrote:

> Omelet wrote:
> > In article >,
> > George Shirley > wrote:
> >
> >> Our FFA chapter raised larger livestock mostly. Along with learning to
> >> arc and gas weld plus how to repair tractors. Our community was loaded
> >> with rice farmers and dairy farms.
> >
> > I was in FFA in high school. I raised goats. They also had areas at the
> > high school ag farm for pigs, cattle, chickens, rabbits and sheep.
> >
> > My teacher, Professor Bins, raised suffolk sheep.
>
> My last ag project was an Angus bull calf. Raised him to 18 months and
> sold him for a herd bull. My take was $200.00, a large sum at the time.
>
> Friend of mine had California rabbits, meat type. He won Best in Show
> and best meat pen at the Houston Livestock Show and won enough money to
> put himself through college. He graduated high school the year after me,
> in 1958. Became an aeronautical engineer, worked for Boeing for 20 years
> with lots of "furloughs" and then went back to school and became a
> pharmacist, has done well with that. All that from four rabbits. Of
> course Texas state colleges were cheap back then.
>
> I've seen other FFA and 4H kids win big bucks at livestock shows and
> state fairs and go on to do well for themselves. Mine just enjoyed
> themselves and depended on dear old Dad for college.

Those kids were lucky. :-)
I worked my way thru college with minimum wage jobs, but what did help
was being able to live at home for 3 of the four years it took to get my
BS-MT degree.

So long as it worked out, it's all good...
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Nancy Young wrote:

> George Shirley wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>> George Shirley wrote:
>
>>>>> Just goofing. It amused me that they would have to add PETS ONLY,
>>>>> like they had people stopping in expecting them to butcher a
>>>>> chicken for them. What did they expect in a residential
>>>>> neighborhood.
>>>
>>>> Wonder what they would think if you stopped and bought a chicken
>>>> and then sacrificed it on their front lawn while doing a voodoo
>>>> dance?
>>>
>>> (laugh) I think they'd be traumatized. I hate to tell them, I
>>> don't know anyone who has pet chickens, I don't think there's a
>>> huge market for them. Maybe the local 4H Club.
>
>> I was in 4H as a kid and so were my kids. 4H kids generally
>> understand that the critters they're raising are meant to be eaten.
>> Those that don't understand that don't stay in 4H long.
>
> I went to a couple of country fair type things lately, that's the only
> place I ever saw pampered and named chickens. But they didn't
> look like the eating kind, they looked like the decorative variety.
>
> I'm sure there is no such thing, of course.


I used to subscribe to a number of poultry catalogs, the various types of
decorative fowl are pretty amazing. Check online, I'm sure they are
viewable that way now.

A guy I knew here in Chicago is a theater guy, one time for NPR years ago he
did a bit about chickens. After he graduated from college he and a friend
decided to smoke pot and loaf all summer and so they rented a farmhouse, one
of the things they did was buy a bunch of chickens, they thought it'd be
neat. Turns out the birds were a big PITA for them, and they can get really
mean besides...it was not exactly _The Egg & I_ scenario that they had
dreamed of, lol...


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Greg

Gregory Morrow wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I went to a couple of country fair type things lately, that's the
>> only place I ever saw pampered and named chickens. But they didn't
>> look like the eating kind, they looked like the decorative variety.
>>
>> I'm sure there is no such thing, of course.
>
>
> I used to subscribe to a number of poultry catalogs, the various
> types of decorative fowl are pretty amazing. Check online, I'm sure
> they are viewable that way now.

They had so many pretty chickens. Like the silkies, other colorful
kinds. They were there for judging, of course.

> A guy I knew here in Chicago is a theater guy, one time for NPR years
> ago he did a bit about chickens. After he graduated from college he
> and a friend decided to smoke pot and loaf all summer and so they
> rented a farmhouse, one of the things they did was buy a bunch of
> chickens, they thought it'd be neat. Turns out the birds were a big
> PITA for them, and they can get really mean besides...it was not
> exactly _The Egg & I_ scenario that they had dreamed of, lol...

Funny. If I had the kind of property where you could keep animals,
I always thought I'd have chickens (NO roosters). I just remember
feeding them corn or something, and collecting the eggs. As far as
mean, the pigs were mean, the bulls were mean and there was this
one spiteful horse. Chickens, not so much.

nancy

On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:50:23 -0500, Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> "Nancy Young" > wrote:
>
>>
>> I went to a couple of country fair type things lately, that's the only
>> place I ever saw pampered and named chickens. But they didn't
>> look like the eating kind, they looked like the decorative variety.
>>
>> I'm sure there is no such thing, of course.
>>
>> nancy
>
> Heh! I fooled around with raising silkie bantams for awhile, but did
> end up eating some of the roosters. My favorite "decorative" pet
> chickens were cochin bantams in both smooth and frizzled varieties.
>
> I still miss those. Some of them were so tiny, they weighed about 2 lbs.
> live weight.

have you two seen 'the natural history of the chicken'?

<http://www.amazon.com/Natural-History-Chicken-Janet-Bonney/dp/B0000TPAR4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1249576641&sr=8-1>

it's been on PBS a few times. what a ****ing riot. some dotty, dotty pet
chicken owners.

your pal,
blake

Phil..c wrote:

> I cant resist this is an OLD joke but I am by your post reminded of
> it . Here we go .Dont flame if you have heard it before .
>
> Rooster
>
> A farmer wanted to have his hens serviced, so he went to the market
> looking for a rooster. He was hoping he could get a special rooster -
> one that would service all of his many hens.
>
> When he told this to the market vendor, the vendor replied, "I have
> just the rooster for you. Rooter here is the horniest rooster you
> will ever see!"
>
> So the farmer took rooter back to the farm. Before setting him loose
> in the hen house though, he gave rooter a little pep talk. "rooter ",
> he said, "I'm counting on you to do your stuff." And without a word,
> Rooter then strutted into the hen house.
>
> Young Rooter was as fast as he was furious, mounting each hen like a
> thunderbolt. There was much squawking and many feathers flying, till
> he had finished having his way with each hen. But young rooter didn't
> stop there, he went in to the horse paddock and mounted all the
> horses, one by one and still at the same frantic pace. Then he went
> to the pig house where he did the same.
>
> The farmer, watching all of this with disbelief, cried out, "Stop,
> rooter , you'll kill yourself." But rooter continued, seeking out
> each farm animal in the same manner.
>
> Well the next morning, the farmer looked out and saw a pretty sad and
> sorry looking roother lying there on his lawn. His legs were up in the
> air, his eyes rolled back, and his long tongue hanging out. A eagle was
> already circling above the what appeared shagged and very dead rooter the
> rooster .
>
> The farmer walked over to rooter saying, "Oh you poor ******* , look
> what you did, you've gone and killed yourself. I warned you you stupid
> shagger ."
>
> "Shhhhh," rooter whispered, "The eagle is getting closer."
>
> Stop me if you have heard it <g>

ROTFL!!!
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