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Ninja chickens
Feb. 3rd, 2007 01:33 pmWe've been offline for a while, because the modem broke. Stupid modem.
Anyway. I spent yesterday (among other things) visiting friends near Wells to have a look at their rescue chickens. This stemmed from a conversation a couple of weeks ago. We are thinking of having chickens and apparently (I didn't know this) the local animal shelter gets ex-battery hens. I just assumed they killed them. Our friends have 4 at the moment, plus some feathery, improbable-looking rare breeds. The rescue hens are, it seems, the smartest, feistiest and generally most interesting ones (named Thelma, Louise, Maggie and Indira - you may notice a theme here).
During our visit, the cockerel had to be picked up and taken away, as his foot was bleeding and the other hens kept pecking at it. They will, so my friends say, take mice from the cat if the cats get the rodents in the hen run. T trod on a dead vole and chucked that in: they fell on it like gannets. If hens were 5 foot high and had no feathers, they'd not be a million miles from a velociraptor. Think about that next time you buy eggs.
Anyway. I spent yesterday (among other things) visiting friends near Wells to have a look at their rescue chickens. This stemmed from a conversation a couple of weeks ago. We are thinking of having chickens and apparently (I didn't know this) the local animal shelter gets ex-battery hens. I just assumed they killed them. Our friends have 4 at the moment, plus some feathery, improbable-looking rare breeds. The rescue hens are, it seems, the smartest, feistiest and generally most interesting ones (named Thelma, Louise, Maggie and Indira - you may notice a theme here).
During our visit, the cockerel had to be picked up and taken away, as his foot was bleeding and the other hens kept pecking at it. They will, so my friends say, take mice from the cat if the cats get the rodents in the hen run. T trod on a dead vole and chucked that in: they fell on it like gannets. If hens were 5 foot high and had no feathers, they'd not be a million miles from a velociraptor. Think about that next time you buy eggs.
