>Most widely kept livestock
>Arguably most popular animal food source both meat and eggs
>Lowest maintenance of any (livestock) animal
>People keep them as pets all the time
Where the fuck is the thread?
Chicken thread
>Most widely kept livestock
>Arguably most popular animal food source both meat and eggs
>Lowest maintenance of any (livestock) animal
>People keep them as pets all the time
Where the fuck is the thread?
A bro cock
It was just an hour ago, I picked up my chicken as it was sleeping alarming all of her sisters and carried her put to a chair by the pond in my backyard, I pet her for a bit at times she would glance around her as if concerned it was dark after all and she was supposed to be enclosed in a cage and safe. But eventually she settleted doen her legs disappeared ah she crouched in my lap and slept, I drank risling wine as I stared at the black outline of trees, the moon was out but obscured by clouds. Creating a full light in the sky eventually I brought her back to the coop to rest for the night and locked it, As I did her sisters pecked my wrist as I put her down. Concern for themselves or their sister whom I had taken. No w I will drink more wine and sit and star en the black outline of trees
Blessed post. Cheers to you, chickanon.
Didn't find chickens that interesting as a kid, but over the years I started finding them interesting, and birds in general
Anyone know what chicken yarn is like?
Saw a mink skulking around my coop. Any recommendations on what precautions I should take to keep it from getting in? Already set up some traps.
If you have a free standing wooden coop that is not inside any other structure it will chew its way in or fiddle with a latch eventually. Mink/foxes/coyotes can theoretically get through anything that isn't a double latched metal or cement box. Trap it for now, chuck it out in a distant field so it can eat mice instead of chickens, and then build a wire run with a ceiling (no climb fence!) around the coop. You'd put a fence around your house for human sized issues so why not put a fence up for the chickens and chicken sized issues? Even if you're letting the chickens run around when you're home and the sun is out, the run around the coop totally prevents ingress and gives you an place to keep the chickens when it's not safe for whatever reason.
If you have a chicken run you can just lay chicken wire flat on the ground going a foot out, stake it down, blend it with the walls of the run, and put dirt/gravel over it. The only animal that can get past that shit is a bear or the worlds smartest and most dedicated raccoon.
Both are useless. A corporation can raise more chickens more efficiently. You just have a hobby. A dog is expensive and most chickens are cheap. That’s the only difference.
Go to the store. Chickens are everywhere. You’re not surviving you’re growing herbs on your windowsil basically. Neither of you has a right to take life over a HOBBY. Death begets death, humans are the only moral agents on earth, and i’ll laugh when one pseudo-rural bugman starts a feud with another and they both end up in jail because someone got salty over his cheap bird hobby and the wrong autist was on the other end of the deal.
I forgot, it's the American Dream to sell my entire life to a corporation so I can buy my necessities back from them instead of producing better products myself. Efficiency über alles. All hail World Controller Klaus Schwab!
>i have a right to destroy the environment again because somehow i am self sufficient with my internet connection and sewer bill
Make this an issue when you life off the grid, typical texas suburb larper
I shoot dogs but that’s because i live miles away from people and they are always wolf hybrids and pitbulls without collars. Those aren’t pets and if they are they shouldn’t be. I don’t kill wildlife orher than invasive rats.
>I live miles away from people and shitpost but other shitposters that live away from other humans must be LARPers
Based Schizo-Cmmunitarian.
Usually the angry bloodthirsty people are townies who want to use their AR15. Like that guy on Wauf years ago who lived in a small town, kept chickens in an unfenced yard, and used it as an excuse to kill every dog and cat in town. He stopped posting and might have had the shit beat out of him. Maybe he posts here now, from his mothers basement while recovering from a broken everything.
It's curious to me when people hear I raise chickens and rabbits for meat that they assume that I'm in it for the killing. If anything, I'm more empathetic to my creatures than the person that eats a single piece of eight different chickens in their eight pack of Tyson chicken-breasts without a care, thought, or prayer of how those chickens were raised or processed.
My chickens live in a mansion sized (relatively) aviary and I tested it with two huskies. My birds are safe and I will never have to kill anything other than a rat or a very large and vicious animal to keep them safe.
I don’t understand why anyone would have to kill an ordinary townie dog unless they have dozens and dozens of chickens and this aviary model isn’t possible, but also, that puts you so far away from townies that you’re back in “it’s always a fuckin pitbull” land.
In my case, I'm technically limited in the number of chickens (three hens, no roosters) I can legally keep due to local ordinances. My only neighbour is cool with the birds, though, so I have a few extra hens. Their run is actually 100 square feet, so, they're pretty happy.
>muh mega-corp
in that case, why do anything if there's a factory somewhere who can make it. Let's all get fucked up the ass instead of enjoying things we can produce
So, does anyone have experience with cinder block chicken-coops? I've got a simple prefabbed coop (lumber prices were outrageous at the time I got started) but I'd like to upgrade to fit more chickens.
You can see they have a simple tunnel to get into the chicken-run but I was thinking a cinder block structure would keep them cool in the summer and perhaps a little more insulated in the winter (not to mention that cinder block is still cheaper than wood right now); these are just my assumptions. Perhaps the stone might be be too cold in the winter, though I plan to keep it stocked with straw, of course.
I find your mindset disturbing. In your worldview I should let wildlife and animals whose owners can't control them kill my animals because it's natural I guess!
You should build a chicken run instead of necessitating the slaughter of wildlife. You should negotiate reparations with your neighbors instead of causing more damage for something that might not be their fault. And build an actual good chicken run. Not just a coop.
You’re like someone who starts shooting a mugger before they even drew a gun - five minutes after walking into a black neighborhood for no particular reason. Stop trying to justify your killing fetish.
no! me kill! that make me strong! not killing like asking everyone to fuck wife!
A few more elections and this won’t be an argument because Americans will have fewer guns than the UK. Learn to call the police and talk to people instead of slaughtering lost pets and wildlife over something you can buy for $8.
>Assuming my one of a kind breeding chickens are worth 8$
I do not care how much they cost. That is not an argument
It’s an american/rural thing. People outside of civilization do not act civilized. They have the resources of civilization, but not the values of forgiveness and peacekeeping so they kill everything and compare being a good person to letting someone else fuck their wife. It’s sad but what you get with double digit IQ humans.
All they are is impotent rage and bloodlust.
eggs are so expensive that nobody can afford baby chickens.
That doesn't follow. Chickens lay eggs so that would encourage people to get baby chickens to sell expensive eggs.
I am as far from conservative as possible and no I do not want to do those things, I want to get your mutt of my land and away from my chickens and if it won't leave or continue to attack my chickens I will kill it. Simple as
I'm was planning on buying mature hens, but I'm considering getting chicks (<1wk old) instead
It's currently 25C (77f) and getting warmer, will I need a heat lamp to grow these chicks?
yes
>enjoy your mice
I know this is all bait and not meant to be taken seriously but Chickens are actually great at keeping out mice. They're god damn vicious.
My aunt runs a small herd of meat goats and had problems with snakes killing them.
She got a bunch of chickens and let them free-range, they went out and hunted all the mice (which were there to eat the goat feed), which in turn cleared-out the snakes
That's one shitty fucking enclosure
Foxes are gonna get fat
Do they not hop the fence?
>bullshit
Like your hypothetical mutt hypothetically killing my hypothetical birds in my hypothetical land?
How many chickens do I need to feed myself at least 700g of protein every day consistently?
What breeds are we talking about?
I dunno, that's why I'm asking
...with eggs?
Dude. I need to know what breed of chicken and what parts you're going to eat. And yes it'd take 117 large eggs to get 700g of protein.
Assume I'm five. I know nothing about chickens besides how to cook them.
Let's say you have Cornish hens. They'd be 23.3g protein per 100g. So you'd want to eat 2,900g to get 685.7g of protein.
Ohh, you're one of those. OK, forget about protein, I want to eat 700g of chicken meat and half a dozen eggs every day, the actual protein content can be ignored for the sake of this argument.
Gram for gram rabbits and eggs have more protein.
Cornish hens have 500g on meat on them.
You're going to need 117 large eggs a day to meet that protein requirement.
Girls, girls, we all know you're both shut-in surburbanites so the chances of you being in this situation are nil, but I don't blame anyone who shoots a dog for being in a coop, or anyone who chucks molotovs into a coop in the middle of the night because they didn't let the dog out and would have paid for the chickens. Actually, I think it's entertaining to watch one blood thirsty, little dicked gay give a second blood thirsty little dicked gay an excuse back and forth.
Maybe the anon talking about women was right, because this has a weird way of never happening to people like either of you. Do your 24/7 murder fantasies make you a little more cautious?
>Do your 24/7 murder fantasies make you a little more cautious?
Yeah. I try not to violate the NAP on the off chance everyone is a LARPer looking for an excuse like me. It's worked so far.
If you come into my yard to attack my animals, you won't be missing your animal for long.
Chickens seems to be chill pets.
Igorrr, a French musician, had a chicken pet named Patrick that lived quite long, something like 15 years
Well, hell's bells, my new rooster is called Igorrr, he replaced my beloved Ignatius who died last year aged 13-and-a-half. Never heard of this French guy, his Patrick is a hen.
Nice cock
that chicken is talented
>All that shit.txt
If your animal comes into my yard and attacks my animal, I'm blowing it away. Simple as.
Same here.
Alright, I asked this on a large forum ages ago and the advice I got was a little subpar.
What is the most heat-resistant breed of chicken. We're talking desert conditions. Obviously, I will be cooling them, but power outages and failures do happen here, and I would like to not freak out if we lose 8 hours of power. Which has happened before.
Sorry buddy but my right to defend my animal buddies surpasses your right to have your animal buddy come onto my property uninvited and kill them.
Is it okay to mix Ducks with Chickens?
I was thinking of starting with 4 hens and a rooster, let them breed until I get an even number of 10. Keep 2 roosters and slaughter any extras once they mature.
After that I could build a little extension and get some Pekin ducks, 4 ducks and a drake.
My worry is that:
The two flocks might fight
The drake and roosters won't get along
The drake might try to breed the hens, injuring them
I heard ducks are bad mothers, won't sit on eggs, and won't raise their ducklings
You're right, I totally forgot about that. I'd imagine a heat lamp and hay floor would do the trick right?
I'm no pro in cold weather Coop design (It's hot where I'm from) but I heard that proper ventilation is what you want even in cold weather as it reduces the humidity preventing condensation/frostbite
Read up more about it though
I made a thread without checking.
But I'm thinking of getting some, but how do I deal with the snow since I live in Midwest USA?
It's not a problem for the chickens just give them a place to get off the ground and wind and they'll be happy. They can survive subzero thanks to their feathers
>"It would've taken me 10 minutes to get there, and by the time I got there, my dog was already murdered," said Katelyn Davis.
>Davis is upset with a man who lives down the street from her. She told FOX23 while she was on her way to pick up her lost dogs, that man beat and killed one of her dogs and shot a crossbow through the other one's head.
>A measure she believes is extreme, especially because she was just minutes away from taking her dogs home.
>"He went straight to action and started beating them, and I just feel like he should not get away with it. Go to jail, or something. Because that's just wrong," said Davis.
https://www.fox23.com/news/man-kills-dogs-killed-his-chickens/109352862/
>if your chickens were important you'd keep them in a pe-
>what the hell man why did you shoot my dog?
His name is heckin binwooflepoops he would never!
>collared
every single time
Guys I love chickens so much it's starting to be a real life problem.
I constantly think about them, their feathers. Their beaks, their little feet. Their sounds. I even make chicken sounds randomly throughout the day without realizing it. When I see a picture of a chicken I start smiling. When I am sad I look at pictures of them and try to think which breeds I should keep in the future. I love them so much. It's all I want to talk about but everyone around me is sick of me talking about them already so I just don't. My family starts laughing when they see me watch another video about them. In a nice way, not in a weird way.
I can't wait to keep chickens. Soon I can.
Got a neighbor with dozens of free range chickens, we live on a state highway. Few weeks ago I was driving and swerved to avoid a group of chickens on the right side of the road, accidentally fuckblasted two more that I hadn't noticed on the left side of the road. RIP.
Love me chickens. Lay eggs, taste good, kinda cute.
Does anyone here ever feed the chickens cake?
Can't believe I never looked up different breeds of chicken till now
none of you people are ruralads, you're probably fucking yuros
Should I get Amrock Chickens? They got any known issues?
I'm picking out breeds from local sellers, most sell showbirds that do badly in my hot climate (Brahmas, Cochens) but this one dude is selling Amrocks and they seem promising for a dual-purpose breed.
I love chickens, ducks too for that matter. How difficult would it be to keep like 3-4 of them in their own little house that is surrounded by fencing? Could I feed them scraps so I dont have to throw them out? Is it much harder to add on a rooster to those 3-4 hens so I wouldn't have to keep buying new chickens each time I slaughter them? Is an incubator neccesary?
What breed of chickens are these? The one on the right in particular.
Disregard my last 2 posts, I am retarded.
You guys suppose adult hens with a rooster can fend off street cats?
I'm worried cause there's a small family of cats that roam around my garden (mother + 2 adolescents), they're not that big but I'm afraid they might injure my birds
domestic cats are some of the most inept predators in the environment. they won’t kill something unless it behaves in a very specific way and are not active hunters. they’re either a problem or not and if they’re a problem active roosters would probably kill them.
Chickens usually bully cats. I only saw a cat seriously try to kill a chicken once in my life and Rooster ended that shit immediately, 99/100 cats fear the chicken
Chicken flocks have been known to kill coyotes, and it’s not uncommon to see chickens wandering streets with feral dogs in third world towns. That being said they are prey animals and feel overwhelming amounts of stress around predators. The stress can create lots of problems from losing egg production to molting.
It isn’t difficult, chickens have a high body temperature and can adapt well to freezing climates thanks to their massive down feathers. They need somewhere to perch with a reasonably big space that’s free of wind/rain/sun. They also love yards of grass to peck, just make sure there’s nothing sharp they could eat.
Chickens mostly eat grains, they are omnivores though and will eat anything even meat. However their digestion suffers if they eat non-dense food such as bread, which you can solve by soaking. Young chickens should have medicated food to build up their immunity. You should also mix calcium in their food such as broken eggshells, calcium is very important to their diets and they can become egg bound and die without it. If they start molting feathers you should feed a high protein diet such as cat food.
They need pavement or stones to grind their beaks and nails on, otherwise you’ll have to clip them once in a while.
If you live in freezing climate you’ll need to figure out water.
They also need a supply of grit, this is literally just smooth gravel. They eat it to act as teeth in their stomach.
Roosters aren’t always legal to own, but you can “babysit” them to help breed a flock. There’s also a small chance the hens you buy at the local tractor supply will have a rooster, since its difficult to tell at a young age. I really doubt these ordinances are ever enforced though.
Incubation is necessary if the chicks are separated from their mothers. It’s just a red lamp in a big box filled with newspaper in your house, takes about 3 months. They can be noisy but rarely stinky or much trouble.
>They need pavement or stones to grind their beaks and nails on
Do they do this willfully, like a cat grooming its fur? Or do they need a larger stretch of pavement to walk around on and passively grind down their nails? Would something smaller like a cinderblock or two suffice?
Yes my chickens have several concrete pavers the coop was built on, I haven’t had to trim their claws/beaks ever. They do get pretty long during incubation but you’ll observe their natural behavior of scratching the ground and rubbing their face on it.
Thanks for the info.
>Young chickens should have medicated food to build up their immunity.
Just feed them fermented food, nothing on this world needs any kind of medication to protect them from anything
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What breed of chickens are these? The one on the right in particular.
What breed of chickens are these? The one on the right in particular
Serious question. I want to get a Duck only to keep for a few days though because I'm not suitable for a Pet.
What's out me off is where it will end up, I heard releasing one into a Park will affect it negatively and Animal shelters don't take them. Is there any way to find an ethical solution.
Capture a duck from the park and then throw it back when you’re gotten your ducks in a row
*an duck
Haha that would be an idea if there weren't people around always.
By the way forgot to mention I'm from London, so if anyone wants a Duck I'll fucking bring it all the way to you.
Any thoughts on this coop + run design?
I wanted to make one of those really impressive looking ones with plywood sidings but soon found out they're WAY too hot for my climate.
Instead I drew up these plans where I replaces the siding with 90%+ shade cloth, air permeable but still leaves a darkened area for the chickens in the coop.
"Roof" is a water proof tarp. Rest is covered in metal mesh like in the bottom pic.
I'm also questioning the necessity of the raised floor in the first place. Here's an alternate design of the coop without it (Nest Box/Roost bars are too high but I just didn't change them).
It increases the size of the "run" and gives the hens a shady place to hide in which is nice, but it's an extra expense and an extra structure.
This is good but how many hens do you have? That seems like a lot of nesting boxes. 1 nesting box per 4 hens is an ideal amount
It's that long so I can nail it to the posts directly without having to add veritcal studs to hold it
imo no harm in having more
They look nice and practical but you do need the raised floor for them to lay comfortably, consider adding wheels or some other type of mobility options to it as chickens will fill it up with poop in less than a week. As a bonus their poop is a really good fertilizer once it's past the burning stage (fresh poop generates heat from decomposition)
>consider adding wheels or some other type of mobility
The run + coop is about 20' long total, set on sand, and is surrounded by a grid of trees. This things isn't gonna move at all lmao
I do have a shit load of horse bedding (Wood shavings, I use it as mulch), sawdust-free, cheap. I'm hoping that can keep the smell down and make some nice compost for my pile.
>need raised floor to lay comfortably
What do you mean by this? I get having raised nest boxes. But how does the floor impact this?
Asking to improve my setup if appropriate.
Chickens are birds at the end of the day and are simply more comfortable perched up anywhere. Even a horizontal pvc pipe 2 feet off the ground is more comfortable for them
Forgot to add they don't like to lay on the floor but will if there's no better place. Give them a nest higher up and another one on the ground and you'll probably see them take turns laying in the higher up one
Urbanites who don't known chickens or dogs making up scenarios on their heads to get mad about.
SSS
>nice thread
>retarded baiter apears
>people take the bait
>both start making up fanfics and talking about muh blue vs red side
For fucks sake not again
Principles come from the days when men where men.
You're retarded take that men can't have feelings is part of the reason why men are driven to Jordan, the scammer, Peterson. Those men don't feel confident because society expects them to be stoic even at the worst times.
If your pet kills my pet, I'll kill your pet. An eye for an eye bitch.
You tellem jebediah. Jungle rules. Return to monke. We await immanuel kant’s cost:value analysis and dissertation on the economic impact of bronze age morality.
You’re both clowns but you are the most clown and the guy advocating for solving problems with money and making and exception for pitbulls is only a clown for taking your bait
ITT schizos schizzing schizos
Dog killing larper and hypermaterialistic stirnerite are going at it again! Take your bets on them making this about dinosaurs eventually!
Pretty sure he's just samefagging at this point. Anyway, i'll rather just report them and wait for janny to do his job.
Your runaway dog will die in the middle of someone else's acreage and you'll never know how, when, or why it happened.
bro the chickens are fucking livestock, not pets, stop getting upset at losing livestock you don't need to survive off.
If you are keeping a whole chicken pen as pets then you are objectively no different than crazy cat ladies.
>bro, the BRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAPPPPFFFTTT
Keep your dog leashed
Why do you fags keep saying this when it's already been stated multiple times that sometimes it is out of the owners control?
The car analogy is actually right. It's like smashing/burning someones car because their son drove it over your lawn or didn't put the brake on and it rolled into your lawn, and then blaming the father when he was at work for not beating his son into being afraid of leaving the room. There's a point when WASP responsibility ethics break down into absurdity and that's about where it happens. A good catholic would not destroy the car. And a good catholic would not destroy the dog unless the chickens were more valuable, or the dog posed a threat to something more important, such as if they were poor and isolated, and chickens were an important asset to survival. In most of the modern world chickens are either a hobby or a cheap commodity.
And anyone who called you a child over this is right. Because smashing someones train set because their friend kicked over your legos is childish behavior.
You could also say "keep your chickens penned if you don't want anything to happen to them" and then, suddenly, people get pissy, without knowing how similar they are
>but muh heckin birdies freedom
>muh birdwife
>her cloaca is too fine to keep in a cage
Because it's the schizophrenic dog hate fag. Most people wont shoot dogs over chickens unless they depend on them for income and it's so far out their chances of locating the owner are nil.
I can recall some cases where a dog was shot over backyard hobby farming and the retard with the gun was charged with felony animal cruelty. When this stuff happens in real life, the courts agree with you. Some retard's suburban backyard hobby is not, in fact, worth killing lost pets over.
>keep your mutt leashed and off my pro-
>*THE JURY HAS FOUND YOU GUILTY*
>muh heckin huwyte values im based and trad...
https://www.wcvb.com/article/salisbury-man-charged-with-killing-dog-massachusetts-march-2-2022/39302930
https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/salisbury-man-charged-with-killing-dog-held-without-bail/article_0d808562-9b1a-11ec-81f2-ff4a4b8984e4.html
So ITT some edgelord is acting tough when every court in the US would ream him if he wasn't on a distant farm which is the only place his behavior is reasonably, and any dogs that show up are probably unwanted anyways.
The story only changes with cattle on pasture
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2011-01-12-os-dogs-shooting-man-acquitted-20110112-story.html
And people normally try not to kill the dogs
As always Wauf's larping edgelords are nothing but inflammatory. No, no one ITT is going to be shooting any dogs, it's doubtful they own chickens, it's more likely it's paleofag or the ihatedogs reddit tourist, and if they did they would go to jail because they're suburbanites.
>new englanders
LMFAO
new england is the most rural place in america where people will still spend time on the internet
incorrect that is the flyover midwest and new england is just larprural not truerural
>new england is the most rural place in america
are you fucking retarded
I do not care for your chickens are not necessary argument because neither are dogs, a lot of things are not """necessary"""
What I really can't understand is how you people think I should let some mutt destroy my animals because the owners are irresponsible or because dogs are just being dogs, bro. I do not care, even if dog got out because of an accident, I have the right to defend my own and prevent further harm. I will grant you that immediately resorting to killing the dog is too extreme and like you said accidents happen but if it accidents happen repeatedly I will kill it with clean conscience and it is baffling to me how that is somehow an extreme position to you
Even if it’s a repeat (your concession at last) you’d go to jail if you were anywhere but a farm on county land where the nearest neighbor is at least a mile away and there’s no way their dog would go that far without their knowledge. That’s just how the world outside of lolbertarians fantasies works. There are some dogs you shoot, some dogs you don’t, and some places you leave the gun in the closet and use your words.
Cool, I would and I would feel completely justified morally as those retards sentenced me to jail. Law and morality is not supposed to be one and the same anyway. Also I was NTA so no concession was made
The entire idea of morals originated as law, and law originated as moral objectivism. The morals/ethics split was the sex and gender of behavior regulation. Anyone who says you should seek compensation first is right, and probably avoid killing and just wound to stop.
All dogs inside the fence line get the shallow grave. Simple as.
>Apparently valuing livestock monetarily is christian now? If your horse eats a chick is it right to kill your horse? Or ask y-
>BANG
>The hell was that?
>Looked like a coyote, was rustling up the hens but I got it good
>...
>It's that darn city-slicker's dog he keeps letting out, the poor thing
>Well, it's what happens when you're dealing with irresponsible owners. They can't even handle a single dog can they?
>Huh, well what're we supposed to do now
>We contact the owner and tel him what happened
>Won't we get in trouble?
>Of course not, we're protected by the laws and constitution that allow us to bear arms, stand our ground, and protect our property which includes our livestock!
Back in reality
>City of suburbia, pencilvagina, USA
>HONEY MY PET CHICKENS ARE SQUAWKING
>OH MY GOD IS THAT A WOLF
>QUICK HONEY GET THE AR15
>Damn I sure am glad I stood my ground. Benjamin uh, frenchman would be proud. I'm going to tell donald trump about this.
>What the fuck? Why did you shoot my dog? My daughter's friend let it out, what the fuck? Why did you do that?
>Is that a chicken? I would have paid for a replacement. You fucking idiot. I paid $7800 for that dog.
>BECAUSE I AM UHHHH...AMURR...KAN. GET OFF MUH PROPERTY OR IMMA SHOOT YEW. YA SHOULD KEEP ALL DOGS ON A CHAIN ALL THE DAMN DAY. HOW BOUT DAT. BUT I SHOULDNT HAVE TA KEEP CHICKENS IN NO PEN OR RUN. NO SIR EE.
>MUH PROPERTY GET OFF MY PROPERTY I STILL WANT TO KILL STUFF. ONE, TEW, ...BANG!
>2 elections later: *state flips blue*
>WHY DID LIBTERDS DEW DIS?
>What do you mean my dog got injured on a trap after it wandered onto your property?
>I'll have you know he's a $10000 dollar hunting breed I got from the pound, you need to pay for the vet fee!!!
>What do you mean my dog dug up your vegetable garden and destroyed your tomato patch?
>Don't you understand he's like $90000?? You can get tomatos from the grocery store! He got indigestion from eating them you need to pay me!
>What do you mean it's "my responsibility"?
Who said YOU had to pay? I said the dogs owner should pay money for the monetary damages. But you destroying their property does not bring yours back. It is like torching a car because their son parked it on your flower patch and telling THEM “learn to drive”. But if they drove across your lawn and popped a tire, they would have to pay for the grass seed, and their tire. This is extremely basic morality and mutual respect rather than a typical social conservatives animal instinct and love of power fantasies.
Men make it right
Children start a fight
You are a child and every social conservative in the US has a curiously low IQ score.
Sorry anon but that's just how it is, you got multiple warnings too, we kept sending him right back to your door but you just never really learned you lesson...
I was thinking the next time I see him wandering around digging up the place I'd just take him to the pound instead, least they might find him a better owner...
But last night when you let him out, lil Johnny here mistook him for a coyote when he came after the chickens. Sad to say but he's a good shot, least he died quick.
That's your lot. Next time, train your dog proper and keep him out of trouble
very little reality in this post
there’s reality in that post but only if the location changes to texas, kansas, or oklahoma.
Stop replying to the christcuck schizo.
It's not about the price, it's about the principal that you couldn't control your Craigslist mutt and now it's destroyed something that has a lot of sentimental value to me.
How bout you keep your useless let on a leash so it doesn't get killed?
Don't worry anon I keep Lilies in my garden, I'm sure your stray $5k "hunting" dog is going to enjoy them
>someone else let your dog out
>it has to die because some retard doesn’t realize chickens are just uncooked food
Lmao. Retard. You deserve the coop fire.
>Someone within 5km owns a dog
>That somehow means I'm not allowed to grow flowers in my garden without dogtards frothing in rage and threatening my property instead of acting like responsible owners
It means if the dog gets out you don’t get to kill it over cheap flowers, child. Accidents happen and unless it’s a dog, cat, person, or genuinely expensive animal like a sheep or horse just chase it off and demand monetary compensation instead of shooting $5k over a $5 object.
>here is my pure bred hunting beagle
>yeah the breeder said they are good with kids and other animals
>sorry it killed your chickens while you werent home
>it just so happens that they looked so fun to play with daisy cant help herself
>im against training and leashes
>just let the dog be a dog
If a dog was after my chickens I'd catch the dog, call its owner for compensation, or if the owner couldn't be found, take it to the pound since it's clearly a stray.
If a pitbull were after my chickens, I would kill it, because pitbulls are not dogs any more than humans are chimps and dogs are wolves or coyotes. Just one pitbull is a threat to human life and the presence of a pitbull in a pack of dogs can get them to attack people.
This is because I am not a retard and I know that a loose dog is not necessarily purposefully set loose by its owner, that not all dogs are the same, and someone could have opened the gate to their property without permission. I also know chickens are easier to replace than dogs. It's called having morals, instead of a little dick and a bloodthirsty power fantasy. The law written when people were homesteading is on your side, but with the way the courts work, there's a lot people can do to get revenge without the law being able to prove it was them, as many barking pitbull owners have found out with poisonings.
See, now that is entirely reasonable.
Shitposting is shitposting, but when it comes down to it, thats the right approach.
Now, if it happens multiple times, there will be harsher repercussions. Its really hard to blame a dog for its owners incompetence. Unless its a shitbull
See these unrelated larp tangents? Kids, this is called bait. They don’t engage. They’re not arguing with you. They just figure out the kind of moron you hate and then act like that. Probably because they have anger issues. And so do you.
What a shit argument. Your dog is uncooked meat, cats are uncooked meat, rabbits are uncooked meat. So?
It’s 2022. Your chickens are not essential for your survival. Even killing wildlife to protect something that’s standard supermarket fare should be illegal.
Neither is your dog, and no your imported french pug is not "wildlife"
>Even killing wildlife to protect something that’s standard supermarket fare should be illegal
I agree with that but in terms of importance dogs and cats are less useful and valuable than both chicken and wildlife.
This but I disagree and any fox or wildlife which tries to get to my girls deserves to be nailed to the wall alive
I'll make your dog a food animal if it kills one of my chickens.
Can someone ID this chicken breed for me?
Farmer said it was a "Kuwaiti" but that's a country not a breed
hehe bro chickn
I see a lot of justification for not keeping their mutt leashed. Kill any "pet" who kills my chickens in my closed off land
>People should not have to worry about lost pets killed
If their dogs were important enough they'd be chained at home. My chickens are in a fenced off acre of land, admittedly I have nothing set up to prevent hawk attacks
Big cheekens are overrated
It’s all about smol cheekens
More compact, and takes up less space
>dindu dogs kill hen leaving 7 orphan chicks a week ago
>camp out with rifle every morning hoping to see them again
>decide to let chicks free range for the afternoon
>lose 2 to a hawk and an owl this same day
sorry anon 🙁
Thanks anon, I'm keeping the chicks indoors until they're grown up. Will post pics tomorrow
Show us the chicks anon
Sorry I totally forgot, will post pics tomorrow for sure if the thread is still up
Here they are the little fellas. I took them outside in a cage to get fresh air
Beautiful way to end the year by seeing these chicks
Thanks anon, they'll grow big and strong. I have them for the eggs not the meat.
It's supposed to get down to -1F (-20 ~~*wind chill*~~) tonight, are my birds gunna die?
I insulated their coop, but it's still ventilated at the top to get the defecation fumes out. Heat rises ofc. My old birds never had a problem with the winters here, but they were Wyandottes, and I'm in the South. My current birds are much smaller 'Easter Eggers' (every egg is green.)
Did they make it
Did the garden gnomes cause ~~*wind-chill*~~ too?
~~*feels-like*~~
This is gonna sound retarded but can I still use/eat fertilized eggs?
I want to keep a rooster with my hens to protect them and in case I want to increase my flock size, but idk if I can still make omelettes out of fertilized eggs.
I plan on collecting almost every day
>This is gonna sound retarded but can I still use/eat fertilized eggs?
Yeah, but you'll get red spots (which freek out some folks), and obviously any eggs that get brooded on for a while before you collect them will grow an embryo.
It's not even a red spot. Just a discolored ring on the yolk.
I have a rooster with my hens. All eggs are fertilized and they all get eaten.
Would introducing feral chickens to Texas be bad?
I doubt it would be an issue. They have so many predators, and I don't think Texas is really their ideal habitat (jungles)
Ok I'll give my runaway roo a mate.
There's only one way to find out.
chickens only manage to really establish feral populations on tropical islands
He's doing well on his own for 3 months so far, so I'm not afraid he'll get eaten. Dallas is going to have a feral chicken population now.
Scary
We have feral chickens in tropical South Florida.
You have feral https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Random down there.
Please sort your shit out, Florida. Or just keep going until your kids get strangled by a python that crawled out of a hippo's ass.
No, just late. Houston has had a feral chicken problem for a while now.
>would bringing sand to the beach be bad
Bro do you know how many fucking chickens are running around the place on farms and tejano backyards?
The hard part is not getting them snacked on by coyotes or hawks.
What is the best way to make them skip their broody phase?
Take the eggs away and keep removing the hen from the nesting box.
what does it mean when a hen is broody
I love my chickens. I let 'em loose and they visit the neighbors and shit in their flower beds and stuff. Almost got eaten by a dog and two foxes. I keep them all winter long and so far they've been lucky December has been really warm. The -30s are coming though. Bless eggs.
Just a reminder the Chicken system of determining a breed is superior to the dog system.
that's just bad selection, not desirable. As far as I know, germans are trying to ajust that
that's what breeding according to standards gets you. They've started pulling it back a bit, but mostly just by stuff like genetic testing for hip dysplasia to treat the symptoms rather than actually ending the practice outright.
The standard says a german shepherd has a smooth, sloped back line from neck to tail, which is true even of healthy dogs because their gait makes them stand like that, but when you put "a shep should have a curved back" in the manual and then people only let the ones with the most curved backs breed you're just artificially selecting for problems.
Not necessarily anon. The “Dong Tao” is breed whose sole purpose is to be turned to a soup with it grotesquely, enormous feet that risks cracking the egg the poor bird is growing in.
You sure they aren't eating them feet? Feet's a delicacy over in China.
Okay, what's their life expectancy. Did you know what I meant by "system of determinating breed?"
I admit, I misinterpreted what you meant, but I just wanted to share the breed, because it looked weird, and it is the breed that pops into my mind when I think of “defective” breeds.
It's okay. But I believe that the dong tao isn't that bad of a breed. Also the dong tao isn't APA recognized.
THNX anon, I’ll be more mindful next time:)
>when your chickens convert to Nurgle
They aren't the right size for our reasons.
chickens must look extremely delicious to other animals
I free range. Hawks get fireworks shot at them, Australorps also simulate crows preventing attacks, fox get merc'd and trapped. I get to keep the skin.
I haven't had issues. If you can't keep your animals without locking them in cages to "prevent losses" your just shit at self animal husbandry and go program a Facebook page or something, or give enough of a shit to actually keep your flock safe. Im so sick of middle class shitlords abusing chickens cause you all want to larp.
How do you get them inside in the evening? Do you just call them and they come running?
I find chasing them with a drumstick has them falling into line pretty quickly.
Only your inbred hepatitis-ridden brain would think that doing all of that is preferable to just keeping chicken in a safe coop.
I haven't seen chicken gen in months.