Comments on: Gratituous pet chicken blogging: Look at these eggs!

By: The OTHER Pat

The OTHER Pat — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:31:29 +0000

Comment by DJD — July 17, 2008 @ 6:17 am

“I have 9. 7 can lay and 2 are pullets”

You have 9.7 chickens?!

Sorry - I work in a lab and this just struck my funny bone (kind of like the statistics about families with “2.3 children” and so on!)

By: DJD

DJD — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:17:11 +0000

Gina-how are your chickens doing now that its July ?
I am a new chicken owner ( 2months) and I love it ! I talk to my chickens and they follow me all around. I love to sit and watch them. I have 9. 7 can lay and 2 are pullets, but they should start laying soon. I have been running into some problems. I am only getting 5 eggs a day, and someone is breaking an agg about twice a week. and the shell is in tiny pieces. I am afraid they are eating them. I let them out early this morning hoping that will put a stop to that. I don’t let them out til after noon when I get all my eggs. so, this is a test. I never thought I would like them. I wanted fresh eggs. My friends laugh at me cuz I tell them the antics of them.

By: VJ

VJ — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:46:00 +0000

At our senior’s get-together today we had a woman come in with her chickens. She brought 4 of 10. A bantam, pult, aruacuanas and Polish hen. The aruacuanas was beautiful. I got a couple of her loose feathers. The hens are family pets as well as egg suppliers. She said her kids carry them around all the time and one who had a deformed foot from an injury has gone snow-boarding, swimming and several other activities with the kids.

By: C.L.H.

C.L.H. — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:31:38 +0000

I have such a case of chicken envy! I decided to wait on the chickens and work on the kitchen garden this spring. I’m building boxed beds and cold frames for year-round gardening and I need to build an official composter. By next spring, I’ll be ready to have 4-5 chickens and will have a great place to compost the waste for my garden. Will you please post a picture of the coop and chicken run when they are finished? I’m still researching coop designs.

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:39:29 +0000

My mother has given up and now thinks I am simply certifiable.

Hard to argue that, no?

By: 2CatMom

2CatMom — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:17:54 +0000

Real eggs…so that’s what they look like!

So what are you going to do with all those eggs?

On an unrelated note - I recall you had a post on the Thankgiving family meltdown over your pets. Dare I ask what Mama is saying about the chickens?

By: Gina Spadafori

Gina Spadafori — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:37:41 +0000

In many cities, you can have a couple or even a handful of hens. (Roosters are a problem because of the noise.)

Here’s a list of ordinances in many cities:

http://home.centurytel.net/the.....nlaws.html

Really, a small, well-cared for handful of hens shouldn’t be a neighborhood problem in any way, if the chicken area is kept up to keep flies from being a problem. For one thing, chickens are quiet at night! (And even by day, they mostly just chuckle and cluck quietly among themselves, with an occasional outraged outburst over heaven knows what.)

By: Georg

Georg — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:20:03 +0000

You make me wish I could have chickens. I have no idea if zoning law would even allow such a thing.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:16:58 +0000

That is a stunning shade of green!

By: Marcy

Marcy — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:42:08 +0000

Wow!