Comments on: Even More Answers to Questions About Chickens

By: Christine

Christine — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:35:00 +0000

Fun article!

I see my photo was used for the above article. Thanks give the recognition.

I knew that pic wasn’t going to be a turkey!

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0000

My great-granparents had chickens. My mom said she used to chase them. My great-granddad wasn’t too fond of them.

By: NYCGirl

NYCGirl — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 08:39:00 +0000

Yikes, grey, what happened to “first do no harm”? :o

By: Orange

Orange — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Just had to comment to say that I loved this line: “The real question here is what God thinks about the matter, and it turns out we’re just not sure.”

By: grey

grey — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:14:00 +0000

I sympathized with those roosters that were unjustly prosecuted. I had my fair share of shame of rooster cruelty.

My dad has a wide collection of birds and just fresh from med school where sleeping was a luxury, I went home expecting to indulge. But then we had this fat, huge boisterous rooster which started crowing at 4 am– just outside my bedroom window. This drove me crazy of course.

I spent all my waking days hatching a plan to assassinate the rooster. First, I used my baby bro’s toy gun with plastic pellets. The pellets just ‘pinged’ harmlessly on the cholesterol-laden bird. He barely noticed them. Then my sister’s husband carved me a Y-shaped slingshot (not your biblical David weaponry). It took me a short while to learn how to aim and shoot. using stones as bullets, I pelted the poor rooster to an inevitable death. He suffered from subdural hematoma, i guess, after i shot him on the head.

I wasn’t proud of what i did. But i did spend my post-rooster days in narcoleptic frenzy.

By: n2y2

n2y2 — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:13:00 +0000

We picked up a couple of back-yard chickens last year (living firmly in suburbia). They make wonderful pets.

The kids love playing with them. While I would not say that they are not intensely intelligent, they are smarter than most barn mammals. They are much more curious than cats and are more quiet than dogs (provided that you have only hens).

It is astonishing how much better tasting fresh backyard eggs are than the store bought ones. Plus, they eat our table scraps, devour most of the bugs in our yard and do a good deal of the weeding as well.

On the down-side, they fertilize everywhere indiscriminately, so careful that you don’t step in the chicken poop.

By: 8rustystaples

8rustystaples — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:58:00 +0000

viscous sorcery?

By: shane

shane — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 03:19:00 +0000

you hypnotize a chicken by drawing a clearly visible vertical line, positioning the chicken at one end of the line, and facing one side of their head towards the line. this is also applicable for roosters.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:59:00 +0000

I, too, am frequently unsatisfied. Perhaps someone is stealing my eggs? This is a topic that should be researched and blogged about: psychological egg theft.

By: mmmatt

mmmatt — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:34:00 +0000

“Considering that you can hypnotize a chicken about as easily as you can slip on a bar of soap”

Which leads to two more chicken questions:
1. How do you hypnotize a rooster?
2. If you have hypnotized people act like a chicken, do you have a hypnotized rooster act like a person?