Asperger's & Autism Forum

tree

For eggs and amusement. Uh....maybe 20 right now? They are very mixed breed. Originally some bantams of various types that had mingled with full sized chickens. I want to show pictures, but those are in a place where I need technical assistance. The oldest hen I remember having [Dorothy Chicken] was 7 when she died.

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Mia

Always liked chickens, was a little afraid of them as a child. Didn't like shoveling guano tho, luckily my dad did that most of the time.
Didn't realize they lived as long as that, seven's pretty good.

tree

That's what's good about filling the coop with leaves in the fall. The floor doesn't get nasty. I was acquainted with a woman whose chicken coop floor would pull your boot off. Her approach was to get her children to shred newspaper for the coop. By hand, not a machine. Their family activity in the evening.

tree

Did it work? ****no, it didn't work. The floor was still something possibly ski-able. And stink? Geh....chicken poop & newspaper. Not a good mix. Leaves are nice. If I save a couple of bags, I can make the place smell like autumn in the middle of winter, too.

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Mia

Wouldn't the chickens get strange chicken diseases in such an unhealthy stinky coop? Let me know if you are getting sick of my chicken questions Tree, I am endlessly fascinated by chickens.

tree

These people also ate their chickens. The husband liked to chew on the feet.Cooked, I mean. But...then apparently they threw them out, in to the yard. Their yard. Not the chicken yard. Another thing this woman did was when they had a dead animal, cover it with a bucket until there were plenty of maggots & then present that to the chickens.

tree

Which makes more sense than another woman I knew who had the idea that eating grubs and maggots was terrible for chickens and would.....make them full of maggots!!!---that would EAT them. 0_0