RE: Food vs Gas (+Chickens)
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I kind of what a few chickens. I think it would be fun to learn to take of them. But I have a neighbor I told about this and he said he hates chickens and he'd shoot them through the fence. Kind of freaks me out. Also, I have snakes and birds of prey around. I would think they could get at the chickens
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Chickens are Dinosaurs my chickens eat snakes.
hmm, good to know. I really want a couple. My friend has a few and I've had the eggs. Fresh eggs are sooooo good.
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I wanted to say if you have children the ladies will be nice to them if they know them.
Roosters on the other hand. I went through 5 before I understood how to raise one for family life.
They must be handled daily. Even after they are hard to catch.
AS well the hens need a rooster. When we culled the first rooster our hens started humping each other. It stopped when we got another rooster.
Dont be fooled by our world systems. There is only prey and predators in our world. Chickens are mostly predators.
Yikes! I might just keep buying eggs lol
I once gazed into the eyes of a seemingly harmless hen for a minute or two. I have never been so chilled to my bones at the merciless predatory soul of another vertebrate as I saw there. You speak true to call them dinosaurs. I have visited an organic egg producer that feeds his flocks whole cattle, mostly dead bull calves useless to the dairymen hereabouts.
City folk would be well served to see that operation, and the spectacle of chickens stripping cows to the bone like piranhas provides edifying perspective. Daily handling is wise IMHO.
Also, don't fall down in a pig pen. Pigs can't digest teeth, but that's all that would come out undigested after they ate you. An 800 pound boar can savor a human head like we do a cherry tomato.
Real life is stranger than fiction. That is not a false conscript. Or is it?
I am unable to have chickens where I live. However, I donated a half dozen layers to a local who does keep chickens with the caveat that I may want some eggs from time to time in the future. I also reached out last week to a local commercial egg producer about the coming purges of commercial flocks, with an eye to consulting to secure some of his flocks at least from such genocide. Dairy is also of inestimable value, and I have created similar relationships with local ranchers who assure me they will not let their neighbors starve while they have dairy cows.
Even if you can't yourself have flocks and herds, you can find ways to share in the bounty where folks can. Be good and useful to good folks, and goodness and mercy will follow you, all the days of your life.
Dude yes this is exactly what I was going to say.
The five I had were fucking grizzled and they always were willing to throw down as a team.
They only seem to be afraid of things that come from the sky. I have had a few American Kestrels attack two of my ladies. Had to put them down after the attack. Heart breaking for us. We treat our ladies well.
Even after a long and happy life they are great as soup chickens and you can boil their carcasses many times to produce really great chicken broth and then bone broth.
yeah just like iamstan said my chickens were grizzled as hell and neighborhood cats were afraid of them.