anybody keep chickens ?

[thegroundskeeper]

Got a yard full. Always heard my granddaddy say a chicken was the only animal on earth that would fight his daddy, screw his momma, and eat $#^t bet yet we eating it more than anything else!


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[Black Streak]

I have Silver Penciled Rocks and my wife has her own which are Buff Orphingtons from show stock.   Her buffs are to big for my liking.    They roost and nest of the coop floor ss because they are to big to get up on the roost.     Birds that big are not very hardy i wouldn't think.     I like my silver rocks.   They too meet the S.O.P.  criteria and are bigger than most birds but can still roost and nest in the nest boxes.         We generally have 12 hens in all and 2 roosters.    We plan for spring and hatch out around 50 chicks in preperation for all the grasshoppers.    Broody hens are allowed to brood and raise chicks too in addition to the 50 we normally put in the encubator for spring and summer grasshoppers.    We process all the young birds when they get big enough/old enough.   Might keep the best hen or roo out of the bunch and process a bird o deem less desirable than the young bird.         We don't show chickens but like to have S.O.P. birds running around in the yard.
   I let my hog dogs run around loose sometimes and they don't bother the chickens.     Now and then a few hens will get in the dog pens and forge around.   Dogs pay them no mind thankfully!

[J. Tallina]

I tried a many different ones back when I had em my favorites were the red Starr

[halfbreed]

dillo tastes as good as fresh cooked chicken...possum I can't stand to skin one out much less eat one...

   now see that's where you are going wrong Rueben , you don't skin a possum you just gut it and singe the hair off of them over a fire and then cook um up   lmao !!!!!! 

[T.R.]

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I fool with game birds some. Heres my brood cock curently.

[T.R.]