Re: OT: Kangaroos

Janet wrote:
"Larisa" <purple_bovine@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e2dbfe1c-6835-4aec-86f2-f4e2543f66b0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Jan 6, 8:22 pm, Mary <mrfeath...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Larisa wrote:

When I have a house and a yard, I'm going to keep a few chickens - for
the eggs, not the meat. Fresh eggs straight from the nest are nothing
like the plastic egg-like objects one gets at the supermarket. The
yolks are deep orange, not pale yellow. The taste is completely
different. Ah well - one of these days...
Be careful when you go looking for houses, Larisa, because a lot of
places don't allow chickens in the yard, as I'm sure you know.

I love eggs, but don't eat many any more - cholesterol.

Mary
Yeah, I know. I'm hoping that some municipality in the Bay Area is
enlightened enough to allow backyard chickens. I'm not planning to
keep roosters, so I doubt the neighbors would squawk too much (nor
would the hens, I hope...)

LM

Whatever you do, don't get a rooster! They are absolutely horrible beasts: noisy ALL day, aggressive--I had to keep sticks at hand to beat him off just to walk around outside while we had a rooster--and generally useless. He even perched on top of the waterer in the coop and pooped in the water, something the hens have never been dumb enough to do. I really hated that bird, and I finally had him taken away by the Korean guy when he attacked me from behind and actually drew blood through long pants. When you can get chicks at the feed store for $1.35 or so, there's no reason to put up with roosters. (Mine was supposed to be a hen, but the people who identify the gender of the chicks sometimes are mistaken.)

In South Portland, near here, a girl just persuaded the town council to change the law so that people could keep a few backyard hens.


Even people who raise chickens can make a mistake in the gender of chickens. Originally we had three, obtained from one of Wes's students whose family raised chickens. When one of the birds began to crow as he grew we realized that the kid had made a mistake. Raven was a beautiful bird though, big, with shiny black feathers. We traded him back to the kid for another female, Annabelle. Sadly our last chicken, Lenore, died last month, and of course we buried her. We'd make terrible farmers. She had a good life, though, lived to age 13. We'll get three new ones in the spring, old enough so that our Aussie will realize they're something she can herd, but not eat.
Sue D.
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