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My step daughter was given three baby chicks this Spring. Now we have a petting zoo. A pair of peafowl, 4 geese, 11 ducks, 4 guineas, a pheasant, 7 turkeys and about 40 chickens. Oh yeah, and a pig.
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-------------------- Dennis Goddard
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Lord! Yes! We have a collection of roosters...9 of them! Two differnt kinds of game cocks, aracanas, several 'we don't know whats' and a necked-neck turken...ugliest dog you'll ever own!! 'Turken'
We also have hens, aracanas, rodys, bar rocks, silkies, leghorn, and golden wyandottes. We want to get more next spring, and we will also raise meat birds next spring too. We also have 2 jersey steers and an arabian horse (getting another arabian next week)
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Heheh; I know where I'm going for Thanksgiving dinner w/all the trimmings and a wide variety of meat to eat........
-------------------- Frank Magoo, Magoo's-Las Vegas; fmagoo@netzero.com "the only easy day was yesterday" Posts: 2365 | From: Las Vegas, Nv. | Registered: Jun 2003
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We currently have 9 bantam chickens... 9 miniature horses... 3 pigmy goats... one barn cat.... two small dogs... all with names and very safe.
-grampa dan
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Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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I bet you sure gotta watch where you step around your place Just be sure to keep up your Asian bird fru shots. I mean your "fru" shots. Oh crap, I think I'm coming down with it.
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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You been looking at my butt Dennis? I've always wondered about you. That's not my beak either; I'm just happy to see you. Come on, be a sport; lets have a bar-b-que! Have you gained some weight?
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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Can't understand why your wife won't eat fresh eggs.. .they are way healthier than storebought, are way fresher and taste like nothing you can get in the store. And their free!!!!!
If it's because she can't bring herself to eat something outta a bird's butt,...where does she think the grocery store eggs come from?????
Next year we will be eating home grown chicken too! (oh, and don't tell her this, but....grocery store chickens were once ALIVE!!! )
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We once had a pet turkey, & our german shepard killed it & tore it to pieces. Jon was so mad, he took wire & stuck all the turkey pieces on it & bent it around the dog's neck, & made him wear it as a necklace while it rotted . (He was told the old timers did this to break the dogs from killing chickens)
The vacationing Pittsburgh people in the cottage next door came up & saw this & were furious, thinking it was abuse for the dog!!!!
They also thought we were into devil worship because Jon had his deer skull nailed high in the tree to let it rot off & keep the skull. I had to tell her no, it is called "French Mount".
Those city people!!!!
Beautiful birds Dennis! But I must say, I cooked Jon up some pheasant about a week ago here!
-------------------- The Word in Signs Bobbie Rochow Jamestown, PA 16134
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Never could understand how tying a dead chicken around a dog's neck to rot would teach him not to kill chickens....afterall....don't dogs LOVE to roll in anything rotting and gross????? Sounds more like a reward than punishment... I taught my Ozzie to leave the birds alone by using the Cesar Millan method.(Darby's killed 19 of my hens) The Dog Whisperer Put him on a leash with a choke chain and walk him right up the the birds, everytime he even THOUGHT of looking at one I gave him a quick snap on the leash, attention on me, not the birds....it only took a few minutes of this, he can now be left alone with any chicken, totally no interest at all...amazing, it really works!!!
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My stepdaughter and her boyfriend call me The Bird Whisperer because I sit out in the pen talking to the birds. They're the only ones around here that'll listen to me.
-------------------- Dennis Goddard
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Adrienne, we have a bundle of clydesdales & about 20 cows, 2 cats, 4 dogs, 4 chickens & 3 geese. All are/were named, even the five chickens now in the freezer.
We have no problems with the dogs or cats with our animals- we actually 'introduce' them to each other when they arrive, and thereafter the dogs realise that the geese & chickens are a part of farm life, to be looked after etc. They'll all go off investigating together at times, cats included, and when we had pigs, they'd follow too!
(the geese, at times, reming me of the mafia - they want everything, irrespective of whether or not they've earned it- to them any water bowl is theirs, even if it used to be, or still is the dogs, and no other animal is now allowed near it, if they are close by!)
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quote:Originally posted by Michael Boone: if you kill those chickens I want the neckskins with feathers ..real nice trout flies
I was going to say the same thing!
-------------------- Mark Kottwitz Kottwitz Graphics Ridgely, MD www.SeeMySignWork.com -------------------------- Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein Posts: 746 | From: Ridgely, MD | Registered: Oct 2000
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I'll tell ya now I know why my dear old dad (now deceased) referred to em as DAMED chickins. I had a Friend Emily stay here some time ago well she wanted a COUPLE birs,10 ducks,12 chickins,8 turkeys,and assorted other fowel,fowel and 1 big chickin coop later. All named and adored. We studied up on how too. Well you know THCTHCTHCTHCTHCTHCUk. It seams there is a variety of methods.you can strech em,ring em chop em, stick em,and various more hideous methods. I preferred chop. You do it stuff them into a cone and they try to fly threw the small hole till they stop,or ah well you know. Well my son John 8 at the time tried didn't chop hard enough so I had to wrestle it down and git er done. Come time for PANELOPE'S turn Emily thought we should try a new routine the ring em method well I was against it from the start.Well by the time I was done I had that poor thing twisted up like one of those rubber band air planes.Then had to do the chop anyway.Poor Emily tears and snot howling panelope panelope.If I never own another bird it'll be too soon
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I am a pet sitter for friends dogs. "Woody" a big ol' basset hound, "Sophie" a beautiful rotweiller,"Roxie" a little corgy, and "Charlie" a labrador. All shop dogs, my nieces and nephews. My last shop pet was a bat. It flew in to the shop one late night while burning the midnight oil and lived on the flying insects for a few months and would hang from a spot where the wallpaper came loose near the ceiling. After a while "BOB" the bat passed on while still hanging there and we left him as a mascot. It seemed to bring luck and we where always swamped with work after he showed up. He was stationed right over my desk and while working with a customer sometimes I would look up in his direction and watch the look on a customers face when they saw "bob". A magical moment and a signature on a contract without hesitation.
Jack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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I had apet bat one time for a few days. Found him at work. Fascinating little creature. He would fly around the room right in front of you and you couldn't hear it at all. Not noisy like a parakeet. He got out of his cage and the cat brought him to me a few days later, dead and dry. I sprayed him with varnish and kept him on a shelf.
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You're a sick little man Dennis. You could have at least gilded him.
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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Issac Newton Posts: 3528 | From: Warner Robins, GA | Registered: Oct 2004
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Love these critter pix! I love bats too, and learned a lot about them when I was in the Master Gardening program in Ohio. Wish I could have some bat houses, but, can we have them in the city? I'm in Illinois now; is there a restriction where you are?
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