My First Mod Job...The Chicken Thread :D

[Jordan]

haha, i don't think i'll be buying that many again Jill, maybe two or three normal size boxes, but they can be kept near the gecko's.

Ooh Sam you have chickens? we have just got chickens.
Or do you mean you have chickens for feeding to the snakes? lol

[gothicgurrrl]

I love chickens! I've always wanted a pet chicken, but mom won't let me have one.. and I can get the chicks from my friend I want a cuckoo moran chicken (probs spelt that wrong) I've heard that they are breeding miniture chickens now.

[samsleopardgeckos]

unfortunately our chickens our of the frozen kind for garys RSPCA rescue carpet python.
when i was a kid we used to keep chickens until the fox got them all.

[Jordan]

Chickens are all the rage now Kel... lol.

haha i feared that Sam. Poor things, chickens rock. We have just started getting 2 eggs roughly everyday now, its cool to find them. I found a blue egg today

[Jill]

That made egg number 4 so far, and then the brown egg Ella found later takes the total of eggs to 5, from 6 chickens! But we have had them only a couple of weeks so far and several are not yet ready to lay.

My snakes only need mice in the freezer as I no longer have any other species than corns (I do have a lot of them though )

[samsleopardgeckos]

chickens are nice when they are tame, glad to hear your getting eggs already from them.

unfortunately we have all sizes of frozen mice & rats from babies to adults, sometimes we even have cute rabbits & hamsters for the carpet pythons (dont like it when gary gets the rabbits and hamsters in)
i did notice that you had alot of corns jill

[gothicgurrrl]

omg chickens!!
we have loads of chickens at my college.. and I hug them becuz they are tame & I love them haha

:/ thats why i couldn't keep a snake.. i have nothing against what they eat and stuff but i couldn't personally feed them the mice and rats.. i could own one if somebody else did it for me one day, i'll get over feeding pinkies and bigger foods.. but atm they just remind me of when my jirds had a litter of little pinkies haha

[samsleopardgeckos]

i couldnt feed gary's snakes when we first meet or my bearded dragons that ate pinkies but i had to get over that as gary works away alot

[Kermit]

Chickens are all the rage now Kel... lol.

Maybe someone should start a chicken thread

[Jordan]

Haha thanks Kel, cheers for moving it. (thumbs up smiley)

I need to get a thumbs up smiley... i need to get more smiley's, the ones we have aren't very good.

[Kermit]

I have some sites for that I'll pm them to you

[Jill]

The Maran chickens are supposed to lay really dark brown eggs, I think.

I'd love to re-home some ex-battery chickens but I think I have my hands full with 6 chickens .... at the moment

....I've kept mice and rats as pets many times before - that's why I put off getting a snake for sooo long as I wasn't sure how I would cope with using mice as foodstuff. But you have to be practical - after all we buy meat from the supermarket, and that just means that someone else has done the nasty stuff for us. All you have to do with a mouse is defrost it!

[Jordan]

Are they easter bunnies? And are the dark brown eggs made of chocolate?

[gothicgurrrl]

haha I will eventually get over feeding pinkies and such to snakes.. I am hopefully going to study a zoo biology degree that specialises in exotics in sept 2012 (couldn't get in this year, they wouldn't accept my current course soo I have to go and do AS levels) and i will have to learn more about snakes and snake management soo I guess I will just have to get over it lol

wooo Marans are the best! I love the softness of their feathers. I also like silky bantums? they loook pretty.

my college rescued some ex-battery chickens and it was amazing to see them in a large grass filled paddock for the first time. Everytime we went in and open their shed, they all came running out, chirping away it was sooo cute ^ ^ and being as over-emotional as I am, it made me cry a little because I was soo happy for them.

[Jill]

Yes, I was very surprised how lovely and soft my 4 hybrids are. I haven't really had chance to handle the cream crested legbars yet as I'm allowing them to settle in first because they only arrived on Thursday... But if the weather is dry then they will be free-ranging along with the other girls this weekend

[gothicgurrrl]

wow im soo jealous. One day, I will get my chickens hahaha =]
sooo what kind of chickens do you have? .. I know about the cream crested legbar and I'm going to look them up on google

[Kermit]

Ok for all us NON-CHicken folks around here how's about some pix to go with all these names... legbar what?? Cream crested who??

Here in the US a lot of farmers keep herds of guinea fowl


The eat all the deer ticks (and other lil nasties). I had a friend in Ohio that kept chickens, red ones, Rhode Island Reds?


and some like these



I like..




and this guy... I just call 'em the Chickenator (like the Terminator...)

[Jordan]

haha thanks Kel, some nice chicken pictures for the chicken thread

Maybe Jill will post some pictures of our (well they're actually Jills) chickens *hint hint Jill*

[Kermit]

You know me Jordan... first in line with the visual aides

... Besides what's a chicken thread with out pictures???

[gothicgurrrl]

the fluffy ones that you like... they are silky bantums?

[Kermit]

the fluffy ones that you like... they are silky bantums?

cool... good to have a name to go with the face

[gothicgurrrl]

haha i think they are

[Jill]

I don't have a photobucket account or anything like it because I'm used to uploading my pics directly from my pc on the other forum I'm a moderator on. Just found I can attach the files but will need to resize them first - give me a few days

However, the chickens I have are 2x Gingernut Rangers (a hybrid of a Rhode Island Red x Plymouth Rock [I think ...still pretty new to chickens, sorry] and they are a similar colour to the RIRs) , 2x Miss Pepperpots (hybrids of Rhode Island Red x Marans I think, and they are mainly black [with a green/purple sheen on them] with some golden/copper highlights on some neck feathers, and the purebreed 2x Cream Crested Legbars (which look like they have fancy hair-do's because of the crest feathers [they have a background which involves Araucauna for the blue eggs]). Just google them..

[Jordan]

Jill, to post apicture, you must first clickon the icon which is a picture which looks like a floppy disk on it. On the quick reply section it is the 6th allong the top.
Then click ;browse' and choose the picture.
Once youve chosen the picture click submit.
And it will come up with three lines of code.
Copy and paste the second line of code into here where you wantto include the picture, hope this helps.

[gothicgurrrl]

awww cool
I'll have a look on google now.
And I'll take a photo of our big rooster at college tomorrow if I get the chance while I'm in my practical lesson. He's a huge, beautiful buff orbinton.. or something like that

Jordan, I think she knows how to upload the photos.. but she needs to resize them before they will upload ??

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