Chickens.?

[MacFromOK]

What comes first the Chicken or the egg?
Who cares, it should be the axe and that takes care of both.

An egg can't lay itself... do the math.

 

[steelfingers]

An egg can't lay itself... do the math.

An egg can't come out of thin air. Do the physics. Ha!

 

[MacFromOK]

An egg can't come out of thin air. Do the physics. Ha!

Of course it can't. So it must have come from a chicken...

 

[steelfingers]

Of course it can't. So it must have come from a chicken...

But where did the chicken come from????????
Who's on first......?
I'm getting confused. Must have taken the wrong pills again......

 

[Rooster1971]

We had chickens several years ago. There's just the 2 of us, and 4 hens was more than enough. You want more then 2 birds, they are flock animals, and need company. We let them out in the land (which is part of the reason we don't have them anymore....more later) to graze. They came back into the coop at night (early evening, really) on their own. They ate anything that they could catch - grasshoppers, ticks, snakes, lizards. They actually make good mousers too.

The problem - everything eats chickens, or eggs. If it doesn't eat chickens, it kills chickens for sport (dogs). The biggest reason we no longer have hens - I got tired of shooting dogs. Dogs digging into the coop, dogs getting on the roof of the coop and breaking in from there, dogs chasing the hens on my property. Most of them died of lead poisoning (the dogs, not the hens), and the rest got scared off.

The problem with shooting dogs - now you've got a dog corpse on your hands. There's only so many ditches to throw them in. After a while, it's easier to get rid of the birds.

One thing I did learn - when you shoot your neighbors dog(s) for killing your chickens, DO NOT tell them. When the neighbors come around asking about the missing dog(s), the correct answer is "... well, now, I haven't seen that dog (those dogs) in several days....".

Never lie, just answer a different question.

I had a 3/4 Siberian Husky 1/4 Timber wolf. She was crazy and couldn’t keep her in. She killed several of my neighbors hens. I paid or replaced all them. Fortunately they never shot her.

She’d be gone for days. She got mange on out of one of her trips. Doc did all he could do and we put her down.
The mom that was half Suberian and half wolf that I gave to my father in law was surprisingly calm. Bred her to my friends husky and both pups were nuts.

 

[MacFromOK]

I had a 3/4 Siberian Husky 1/4 Timber wolf. She was crazy and couldn’t keep her in. She killed several of my neighbors hens. I paid or replaced all them. Fortunately they never shot her.

She’d be gone for days. She got mange on out of one of her trips. Doc did all he could do and we put her down.
The mom that was half Suberian and half wolf that I gave to my father in law was surprisingly calm. Bred her to my friends husky and both pups were nuts.

Lol, dogs are like people. Some are great, and some should probably be shot...

 

[dennishoddy]

Since we live in the country, I keep telling my wife, "chick days" at TSC or Attwoods.)
All I get is a dirty look. I guess we travel too much to take care of them.

 

[Dave70968]

An egg can't lay itself... do the math.

An egg can't come out of thin air. Do the physics. Ha!

Of course it can't. So it must have come from a chicken...

Not necessarily.

But where did the chicken come from????????
Who's on first......?
I'm getting confused. Must have taken the wrong pills again......

The chicken came from the egg; there's nothing that says the egg had to be laid by what we would today call a chicken. With cross-species (but interfertile--see ligers, or beefalo) breeding, or evolution/mutation, the parents could have been close relatives, but not technically chickens. The chicken must necessarily have come from an egg, though.

 

[steelfingers]

Not necessarily.

The chicken came from the egg; there's nothing that says the egg had to be laid by what we would today call a chicken. With cross-species (but interfertile--see ligers, or beefalo) breeding, or evolution/mutation, the parents could have been close relatives, but not technically chickens. The chicken must necessarily have come from an egg, though.

Egg=ovum

 

[MacFromOK]

Not necessarily.

The chicken came from the egg; there's nothing that says the egg had to be laid by what we would today call a chicken. With cross-species (but interfertile--see ligers, or beefalo) breeding, or evolution/mutation, the parents could have been close relatives, but not technically chickens. The chicken must necessarily have come from an egg, though.

And that egg was hatched/sitted on by a... what?