THREE cute chicks staying at my house!

Get your mind out of the gutter! 




INSTANT KAF and WAF



I'm looking forward to the organic omelette's!!!

dam......you go me there brother Sean 

Mmmmmmmm! Yard bird!

Hubba Hubba!!!!!

Dude I love chickens!  They're so much fun.  My family has a flock of bantam chickens at the homestead for about 9 years or so.  They breed every spring (usually, sometimes odd seasons) and we get a few new ones.  The flock stays at about an average of 12 birds though.  Few die every once in a while or get eaten by hawks, etc.  The eggs are great and so are the birds.  If you handle them alot and be social with them they will be friendly and tolerant and not just a creature roaming around the yard.  Also I cant tell by your post but if you live in a residential area, are you certain one of those chicks isn's a rooster?  I can't see close enough to tell.

Hey Sean,

Oddly my wife has a bit of a chicken bug now as well and she has me spending time on urban chicken forums of all things learning more.  We're allowed up to three "pet chickens" in the city of Portland and Amy really wants some for the back yard.  I was planning on heading out this weekend to pick up a few chicks and some supplies for building our chicken tractor.  BTW, for those who don't know, a chicken tractor is a portable coop/chicken run that you move around every fews days across your yard.  This way the chickens can be used as pest control, lawn care, fertilization, etc.. while grazing over your yard protected from predators.

Chicken Tractor..


Here's a gallery of chicken tractors..
http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/tractors.html


Brian

Sean.....just make sure hefe does not get jealous or those little chicks may start dissapearing one by one...if you know what I mean  ....you may just see hefe running around with war paint on his face AND 3 chicken feathers strapped on his little head

Sean.....just make sure hefe does not get jealous or those little chicks may start dissapearing one by one...if you know what I mean  ....you may just see hefe running around with war paint on his face AND 3 chicken feathers strapped on his little head

He's already there, but we are trying to get him used to the chickens.

If you handle them alot and be social with them they will be friendly and tolerant and not just a creature roaming around the yard.

Completely...the kids have orders to play with the chickens.

Also I cant tell by your post but if you live in a residential area, are you certain one of those chicks isn's a rooster?  I can't see close enough to tell.

They are sexed and theorhetically hens.  We do live in a neighborhood, but our lot is big...about 3/4 of an acre.  If we get a male  hes gotta go.

Oddly my wife has a bit of a chicken bug now as well and she has me spending time on urban chicken forums of all things learning more.  We're allowed up to three "pet chickens" in the city of Portland and Amy really wants some for the back yard.

My good friend at the Portland PFMC office has one if you wanna check it out. 

Ok, those that are more schooled in the chicken than me, tell me if I'm correct.  Racoons and skunks they will kill chickens if given the chance?  I have both in my area, and the wife has seen some chikens at a house we drive by, and mentioned we should get some (For the eggs)
  I guess if the coop is sturdy enough they'll survive huh?

Maybe it's time time to move out the neighborhood and get some land, Sean! Prices are very good right now......

One of my earliest memorys....I may have been 5-years-old.........

......I was kneeling in a kitchen table chair.   My grandmother, seated kittycorner from me was intently picking a tiny hole in a chicken egg.   A dish beside her held a tiny mound of white crystals, beside it a pair of tweezers.   

"What's that...?..." ...I asked, moving my hand to pick up the dish with the crystals.   

"DON'T TOUCH THAT JUDDIE...!!!!.."....she said....My grandmother was never fierce to me but she was fierce now.

She explained.

It was strychnine.   
Skunks in the henhouse.
The strchnine would kill them.
And it would, too.   
I'd seen their bodies

My dad came in and surveyed the scene.

"You know," he said to her,
"I wish you wouldn't do that at the kitchen table."
She laughed.

Judd

even though i knew your wife wouldn't have it...i thought Jelly was having a sleep over and you took a few pics to share with us pervs'
You got me!   cute chicks thet are!

One of my earliest memorys....I may have been 5-years-old.........

......I was kneeling in a kitchen table chair.   My grandmother, seated kittycorner from me was intently picking a tiny hole in a chicken egg.   A dish beside her held a tiny mound of white crystals, beside it a pair of tweezers.   

"What's that...?..." ...I asked, moving my hand to pick up the dish with the crystals.   

"DON'T TOUCH THAT JUDDIE...!!!!.."....she said....My grandmother was never fierce to me but she was fierce now.

She explained.

It was strychnine.   
Skunks in the henhouse.
The strchnine would kill them.
And it would, too.   
I'd seen their bodies

My dad came in and surveyed the scene.

"You know," he said to her,
"I wish you wouldn't do that at the kitchen table."
She laughed.

Judd

Judd - I've decided you remind me of a combo of Don King and Steven King - you're crazy-scary, Dude!   

Cute chickens, Sean.   

Ok, those that are more schooled in the chicken than me, tell me if I'm correct.  Racoons and skunks they will kill chickens if given the chance?  I have both in my area, and the wife has seen some chikens at a house we drive by, and mentioned we should get some (For the eggs)
  I guess if the coop is sturdy enough they'll survive huh?

My grandfather owned a poultry farm, and I spent my youth growing up there.  Chickens are a favorite of all the medium sized predators.  Coons, skunks, foxes, even possums will kill em.  Of course a good sturdy pen should be adequate protection.  My grandfather used cyanide traps to kill predators around the place.  Nasty stuff man.  I watched a handful of predators fall prey to those traps over the years.  As a result, inhalation of cyanide is near the top of my list of ways I do not want to die!

HA, my wife would be sooooo jealous!!!
Chryss and I are planning on some chickens this year too...  I think we'll be building the coop in a couple of weeks...if all goes well    Now I just need a way to let them roam in the front yard garden 

Very cool!!