Kralamoonard
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They're worth it if you're prepared to deal with the noise and the mess they leave everywhere lol.
I think my chicken is dead?
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They're worth it if you're prepared to deal with the noise and the mess they leave everywhere lol.
balladofwindfishes
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Hmm?
8-10 is the life span of a lot of common pets like rabbits and parakeets, so I wouldn't call that a short life span.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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If you have a lot of land neither of these is really significant. My dad raised four cage free hens for a while (until cats and foxes got to them). They were never noisy or significantly messy. The only hassle was getting them into the coup at night.
TimeEffect
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But, how is that even regulated in the poultry industry? No doubt people eat sick chickens all the time, right?
It's actually not that strange. Chickens tend to not have a lot of external symptoms when they're unwell. It's also possible that whatever killed her did so very quickly, which is pretty likely due to the lack of distress.
Poor girl. RIP. I'm sorry for your loss.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
It's becoming more and more trendy and being legalized in lots of places.
CloudyTuba
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My family did the same about 13 years ago. Got two chickens for dual purpose pets/egg makers. Not very cuddly but nice to have around.
I've noticed it becoming more popular recently.
Chickens sound like the goldfish of land.
You gotta employ a dog to keep the coyotes out.
You gotta employ a dog to keep the coyotes out.
We had a labrador retriever, in fact he was our first suspect. He had never shown any aggression towards the chickens though, so I think it was a stray cat or a marten. There are definitely no coyotes here
Lovely plumage though.
adamsappel
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Go to Asian supermarkets.
walking fiend
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Something rather similar happened to one of my ducklings when I was young. One day I found one of them not moving, as if almost frozen; it was perfectly fine until the day before, and we couldn't figure out how it happened.
However, I once read an interesting theory which might explain why it didn't show any symptom: an evolutionary argument is that the preys have learned to hide their sickness, which is a sign of sickness, to ward themselves against the likely predators.
However, I once read an interesting theory which might explain why it didn't show any symptom: an evolutionary argument is that the preys have learned to hide their sickness, which is a sign of sickness, to ward themselves against the likely predators.
PeskyToaster
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There's nothing I hate more than chickens.
youbastards
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NESpowerhouse
Perhaps he's wondering why someone would shoot a man before throwing him out of a plane.
At least you probably don't have to deal with foxes like we do.
We've lost countless chickens and ducks to foxes.
We've lost countless chickens and ducks to foxes.
At the moment, we're trying to downsize a bit, so it's not all bad.
My dad grew up with chickens and to this day hates them with a burning passion. I never understood this until I worked a few summers loading chickens. I'm not to the point of not eating their meat or eggs, but fuck chickens. They are the worst.
Astral Dog
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I love chickens 🐣🐤🐥🐔🐓💀👻
SymbiantXenos
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Chickens make awesome pets.
Kralamoonard
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Yooo what the hell!?! You're freaking me out man -- I legit thought that was a picture of my dead chicken because it looks exactly like that! Not even kidding, and it's the only one out of the five to have that colour too.
Damn...it's also how my chicken looked with its eyes shut. Now this picture makes it even sadder
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
You can also feed the bones of mature chickens to your dogs without the risk of killing them.
Chickens are great, they keep your lawn healthy, they eat table scraps they deliver great tasting eggs (seriously, it's so much better than what you can get in your average american supermarket it's not even funny).
And when they finally stop laying you can butcher them for the best fucking chicken stock ever (you can't really get old chicken otherwise, and old chickens make for a much better soup).
They're also low maintenance and good natured animals in general.
Chickens are neither noisy or particularly messy. As a teenager my neighbor had chickens and kept them in an enclosure that was about 15 feet by 20 feet, with that much room their waste did not build up to a point where it stunk at all. They crowed for about a half an hour starting a little before dawn and were otherwise quiet.
At the house where my mom lives now, her landlord keeps a few chickens in her back yard and it's much the same.
TheLostBigBoss
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you can feed basically any bone to your dog without killing them as long as it's not cooked iirc
Hip Hop
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Wait, what. So it has to be raw?
echoshifting
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Yeah, any cooked bone can become dangerous
Dude... Barred Rock roosters are nothing to be messed with usually, that's trippy! They're beautiful but can get huge and, often, quite aggressive.
Kralamoonard
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Heh, you haven't met my chickens.
In all seriousness though, I'm perhaps speaking from an angle of bias because I hate have to clean up their coop!
I also hate the noises they make when laying eggs. But other than that they're fine. Just speaking from my own experience.
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Nope nope nope. The bones of chickens you buy in stores in the US are too soft for a dog to eat. Dogs crack bones with their teeth, and instead of fracturing cleanly young chicken bones break unevenly and splinter. The sharp edges of the bone fragments and points of the splinters can tear or perforate the dog's intestines before they can be digested, or become caught in the throat or stomach.
DonMigs85
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What happened? A fox or coyote got to them?
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All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Pigs also like to eat chickens, or so I've been told.
Alligatorjandro
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Sorry to hear that.
Birds have an evolutionary survival mechanism that allows them to look healthy even when pretty sick so they don't get picked off by predators easily. They only really show signs that they are dying when they are pretty much right at the end and their organs are shutting down.
It sounds like your chicken has probably passed away or is at the very last stage where they just kinda shut down. If it's the latter, all you can really do is keep them warm and wait for it to pass peacefully. It would be in a comatose state.
Birds have an evolutionary survival mechanism that allows them to look healthy even when pretty sick so they don't get picked off by predators easily. They only really show signs that they are dying when they are pretty much right at the end and their organs are shutting down.
It sounds like your chicken has probably passed away or is at the very last stage where they just kinda shut down. If it's the latter, all you can really do is keep them warm and wait for it to pass peacefully. It would be in a comatose state.
Hmm can't tell if this is a masturbation joke or not? I wish I had something else to guide my understanding of this post...
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As I said, we didn't really know. My guess is either our labrador had a fit of rage (he couldn't really get to the coop on his own though and it would've been very atypical for him) or a stray cat or a marten got in without the dog noticing. It was a rather enclosed backyard in a German town, so no coyotes and very likely no foxes.
Can confirm. Caught a wild one as a child, it was very aggressive. Though... maybe that's because it was wild. Hmm...
I loved the bastard though. His name was Beetlejuice.
shinra-bansho
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It happens to everybody sometimes.
Being 5 years old it could simply be old age as cause of death.
Check the coup for red mites though, they thrive in summer and feast on chickens as they roost. They'll go for the largest first like an insect hit squad, I lost a cockeral this way. If you see the others itching a lot this could be the cause.
Check the coup for red mites though, they thrive in summer and feast on chickens as they roost. They'll go for the largest first like an insect hit squad, I lost a cockeral this way. If you see the others itching a lot this could be the cause.
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