Chickens?

[QUOTE=SemaviLady]You can get a beautiful catalog from McMurray hatcheries. I use to buy my birds from them but since mine were around so long, I just used the catalogs as eye candy. :)
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/cate..._chickens.html
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HAHA!!! Me too! I carry my McMurray catalog everywhere with me. I want to order some chicks from them next year.

[QUOTE=lute]

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Originally Posted by SemaviLady

You can get a beautiful catalog from McMurray hatcheries. I use to buy my birds from them but since mine were around so long, I just used the catalogs as eye candy. :)
http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/cate..._chickens.html
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HAHA!!! Me too! I carry my McMurray catalog everywhere with me. I want to order some chicks from them next year.

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Me three, I love my Mcmurray hatchery catalog, that is where i got my first batch of chicks from. I also have a Meyer hatchery Catalog, which is where i got the last batch from. I just flip through the catalogs and drool!:D

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Originally Posted by lute

Chickens can be hard work. I think that's why I like them so much. I love working FOR animals. I wish they paid money though. ;) :p Actually chickens aren't all that smelly if they are cleaned up after enough. My four heavy breed gals are sleeping in a storage tub right now. I have to spray it out atleast twice a day. I go through a crap load of wood shavings too. I LOOOVE eggs! I actually just got my first batch of fresh farm eggs last week from a friend. They are definatly way better than factory eggs!

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Chickens are obviously far better off with you than they are with me :D

I voted, "no chickens aren't the pet for me". But maybe, if nearby chickens needed to be rescued I would consider them for foster or something but I wouldn't keep them.

Yes, and I have some chickens. I love my chickens. I have Bantam chickens, and have hatched off a few eggs. I will not let my husband eat my chickens! They are my babies!

Willie :)

Hey, look what i found! http://search.petfinder.com/petnote/...?petid=8336322 The Rooster i was talking about sort of had the coloring that this one does. (and since i know this won't be up forever it says it is an Old English Bantam rooster.)

Found this link and thought he looked like these sort of. http://www.cacklehatchery.com/bb_red...am_rooster.jpg http://www.cacklehatchery.com/wheate...bantam_roo.jpg
Had more of a head shape like this though http://www.cacklehatchery.com/Grey_Japanese_Rooser.jpg

Hmmm... I was told he was mixed with a Japanese something or other... I wonder if it was a Japanese Bantam?

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Originally Posted by crow_noir

LOL... I wish i knew my chicken breeds. If i seen the type in front of me that i like i could point it out and say "I like that one!" :- D

I know there are some medium sized dark orange ones i like.

My favorite Rooster was a Rhode Island Red mixed with something else. He didn't look like a RIR though. He was really dark red (bay or chestnut if he were a horse?) with black, and i think i remember some dark green either in his head or in his tail. He had spikes just under an inch. It was the claws on his wings that you had to watch out for though! (Not me though... He saw me as one of his hens. LOL)

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I think chickens are cute, but not for me.
Im into horses and in my family we olny own big farm animals.
Please dont ask me why, I think its weird too lol. :)

I've had chickens before...I cheched "Not a pet for me", but only because I don't think I'll ever be living in a place that would be suitable for poultry. If I had some property that I could predator-proof, oh yeah, I'd have more hens! I've never looked at store-bought eggs the same way since I had my two laying hens. They were wonderful pets....especially my rhode island red. :)

i would love to get a chicken...but i don't think our cats would like them

Aaaah, *Sigh* we have a BEAUTIFUL Brown Polish hen at my clinic right now. She's a BABY DOLL! I could have cuddled her all day long.She is one patient who I will be sad to see going home.

Polish are so cute! Pom pom heads!

http://www.giftedchicken.co.uk/extra...y_chickens.jpg