I farmed in my younger days and no one who hasn't let a few chickens free range has any idea about how blood thirsty and savage they are. With mine the best time they could have would be to find some small helpless animals like a nest of very young mice and killing and eating them all. God help the member of the flock that had an open wound.
One of my cinnamon queens was running through the yard yesterday with a full size frog in its mouth. Just two legs sticking out. Funny as hell as the others were chasing her to get some.
I had an area that was slow to drain close to my coop. I was mowing and the chickens saw the frogs jumping and started following the tractor. They were chasing down some pretty good sized leopard frogs. A chicken actually looks kind of funny with a frog leg hanging out of its mouth. Buddha
Hi Wirecutter, do chickens keep the ant population down? I can imagine a flock of chickens just going to town on a small ant hill and eating their fill of ants during the course of a day.
I always let my chicken loose in the garden. The love bugs. They kept the tater bugs gone. However, put a fence around the tomatoes or they will poke a hole or half eat every damn one.
A Chicken Moat is two fences 6' foot or so apart (& tall enough to make the deer think), you keep your chickens inside that fence, they get the bugs going for your garden and stay out of the good vegies. The deer can see two large fences and are not sure they can make it in one jump, so they don't try.
Chickens don't care, they'll eat anything!
ReplyDeleteThey love raw eggs, I know that!
DeleteI farmed in my younger days and no one who hasn't let a few chickens free range has any idea about how blood thirsty and savage they are. With mine the best time they could have would be to find some small helpless animals like a nest of very young mice and killing and eating them all. God help the member of the flock that had an open wound.
ReplyDeleteYou ain't seen nothing until you watch a chicken snatch up and swallow an adult mouse in one motion.
DeleteThat's dinosaur shit, Wirecutter.
DeleteOne of my cinnamon queens was running through the yard yesterday with a full size frog in its mouth. Just two legs sticking out. Funny as hell as the others were chasing her to get some.
DeleteThose paper buckets are handy and actually last a good while.
ReplyDelete/kinda like those Crown Royal bags
Like the left, eating their own....
ReplyDeleteI had an area that was slow to drain close to my coop. I was mowing and the chickens saw the frogs jumping and started following the tractor. They were chasing down some pretty good sized leopard frogs. A chicken actually looks kind of funny with a frog leg hanging out of its mouth.
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ah, the circle of life.
ReplyDeleteBiden has just announced 10 billion in funding for chicken literacy programs in Ukraine......
ReplyDeleteHi Wirecutter, do chickens keep the ant population down? I can imagine a flock of chickens just going to town on a small ant hill and eating their fill of ants during the course of a day.
ReplyDeleteChickens eat anything and everything.
DeleteI always let my chicken loose in the garden. The love bugs. They kept the tater bugs gone. However, put a fence around the tomatoes or they will poke a hole or half eat every damn one.
DeleteA Chicken Moat is two fences 6' foot or so apart (& tall enough to make the deer think), you keep your chickens inside that fence, they get the bugs going for your garden and stay out of the good vegies. The deer can see two large fences and are not sure they can make it in one jump, so they don't try.
DeleteOh, I heh'd. Just the simple juxtaposition. Title image. Heh. So. Way. --nines
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