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<blockquote data-quote="ToddFarmsInc" data-source="post: 542069" data-attributes="member: 8301"><p>Gosh I wana go back to 1956! :cry2: </p><p></p><p>I think I'm more a 20'th century person than a 21st century. :x </p><p></p><p>I just got into birds this year. I got my moms old chicken coop. (it's a 12ft X 12 ft brooder house) I fixed it all up last year, and built a nice fenced in yard. This spring I went to Orschlens and got 5 each of 5 different breeds, all pullets. I got some red, and some white, and some barred plymouth rock, and some brown. They all looked alike as little chicks. (excpet different colors.) But as adults they are all different as can be. The little brown birds are just as wild as can be, but the others will come up and sit on my feet.</p><p></p><p>I have dogs, and I have been trying to acclimate them to the birds, so I can have them outside the pen. But it's just not going to work. The dogs have been around here too many years catching and killing things. ( I don't have any cats for that reason) I had let my three tamest hens out of the pen saturday morning, and had put two of my dogs inside, when it started sprinkeling. And sure enough.... when I was inside working, the blue heeler who was still outside behaving herself, decided to have some FUN! I found one of the hens shell shocked, and ruffed up pretty bad, hiding under some concrete that afternoon. I am assuming the dang dog chased the other two off and killed them somewhere. :devil2: Needless to say, the hens are never getting out of the pen unless I am around and the dogs aren't. :roll: </p><p></p><p>My 23 birds I have left (I got two roosters by the way, so much for them all being pullets) eat a lot of food. I am amazed at how much scratch grain I go through now. They aren't old enough to start laying yet, it should be fun when they get to that age. :banana:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ToddFarmsInc, post: 542069, member: 8301"] Gosh I wana go back to 1956! :cry2: I think I'm more a 20'th century person than a 21st century. :x I just got into birds this year. I got my moms old chicken coop. (it's a 12ft X 12 ft brooder house) I fixed it all up last year, and built a nice fenced in yard. This spring I went to Orschlens and got 5 each of 5 different breeds, all pullets. I got some red, and some white, and some barred plymouth rock, and some brown. They all looked alike as little chicks. (excpet different colors.) But as adults they are all different as can be. The little brown birds are just as wild as can be, but the others will come up and sit on my feet. I have dogs, and I have been trying to acclimate them to the birds, so I can have them outside the pen. But it's just not going to work. The dogs have been around here too many years catching and killing things. ( I don't have any cats for that reason) I had let my three tamest hens out of the pen saturday morning, and had put two of my dogs inside, when it started sprinkeling. And sure enough.... when I was inside working, the blue heeler who was still outside behaving herself, decided to have some FUN! I found one of the hens shell shocked, and ruffed up pretty bad, hiding under some concrete that afternoon. I am assuming the dang dog chased the other two off and killed them somewhere. :devil2: Needless to say, the hens are never getting out of the pen unless I am around and the dogs aren't. :roll: My 23 birds I have left (I got two roosters by the way, so much for them all being pullets) eat a lot of food. I am amazed at how much scratch grain I go through now. They aren't old enough to start laying yet, it should be fun when they get to that age. :banana: [/QUOTE]
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