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	TSR : Web boards : Other Topics : "." 1 2 . (11) This post is on the Other Topics web board. Fri 2 Jan 09, 5:52 PM tangie 9 yrs . Edited Sat 17 Oct 09, 7:57 AM by tangie 2 Jan 09, 9:22 PM little_linnet US, 6 yrs Watching my chickens always reminded me forcefully that they are descended from wild, tough jungle birds, and before that from raptor-like dinosaur predators. Once when my flock were only just fully feathered (so maybe 2 months old) and able to go outside, I put them on the grass in a pen. A big fly happened to come buzzing into the pen. Now, I want you to picture this in your mind's eye: 6 pairs of beady, sharp little eyes instantly zero in on the fly. 6 little heads instantly snap around in perfect synchronicity. 6 adorable baby chickens instantly become honed, precise hunters out for blood. The fly escaped, but only just, and probably with little brown fly trousers. And I thought differently about those chickens from that day on. I always tell Mr L how glad I am that chickens aren't the size of a Rottweiler, or we'd all be bird chow. They are nothing short of feathered velociraptors. Krista The majority here come here because it is a place to exchange ideas, not to release fluids. 3 Jan 09, 5:40 PM boston UK, 12 yrs Just got 12 chucks before Christmas - rescue battery hens. They are quite delightful! As a response to The Great Escape on the TV @ New Year, one has started "Tom" up by the fence in the corner of the paddock .. we are watching for signs of plane building too b^ 3 Jan 09, 10:10 PM Sklavos_mou_Kyriah 3 yrs There's a DVD called "Chicken Run" made by the Wallace and Grommit team. It is compulsive chicken viewing. "The Great Escape" meets "Tenko". I laughed and laughed. To be a true slave is to be truly free Slave/Sklavos 3 Jan 09, 10:15 PM anjuli UK, 4 yrs boston wrote: Just got 12 chucks before Christmas - rescue battery hens. They are quite delightful! As a response to The Great Escape on the TV @ New Year, one has started "Tom" up by the fence in the corner of the paddock .. we are watching for signs of plane building too b^ <giggles> Oh but I'm jealous. I've wanted to keep chickens for so long. Sadly J does not share the idea of Good Life heaven. ;-P Perhaps he's been reading stories like this. Perhaps he's right after all! Either way, y'all didn't help! anjuli *** “I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.” Anais Nin *** Edited 3 Jan 09, 10:16 PM by anjuli 4 Jan 09, 6:42 AM EilisMoonfire US(WA), 4 yrs My mom bought her house based solely on the fact it came with chickens, which is funny cause we're city-folk. When she first moved in and started taking care of the chickens they chased her around the back yard and had to get one of the neighbors to help her get them back in the pin. She did eventually get the hang of it, but still. eilis One day soon Master will come home and this slave will be whole again. 4 Jan 09, 6:45 PM boston UK, 12 yrs anjuli wrote: Either way, y'all didn't help! anjuli You wanted us to help??? I bought S five fruit trees for Christmas - the start of our orchard - there - does that help any? *just grins* b^ 5 Jan 09, 12:24 AM 373-468-022 US(WA), 3 yrs Y! i am finding it interesting people like chickens. Perhaps i need to remember they have good points. Eggs wouldn't be one, i won't tell the story of why i don't eat eggs, whenever i do people also refuse to touch them.(Not what one may think, just a term an old cowboy used to use when asked how he'd like his eggs) i do believe they will someday rule the world. i grew up with lots of chickens, which i avoided at all costs,but they can be mean, they'd attack anything for no apparant reason. my father found a raccoon which i nursed back to life. Even the coon was afraid of the chickens for the longest time. Then he decided he was chicken and roosted with them. i do miss the babies though, but they are dumb, put a couple hundred under lights and they bunch up in corners and smoother each other if no one is there to break them up. Even in a circular cage. So, everyone have fun with them..brought back great childhood memories. MGs "It's the submissives that show to others what type of Dom owns them." - Anonymous "If you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel." Mysterious Ways- U2 5 Jan 09, 4:07 PM AnonMoos US, 5 yrs boston wrote: I bought S five fruit trees for Christmas - the start of our orchard - there - does that help any? Did the pear tree come with a partridge? 5 Jan 09, 10:08 PM 662-935-655 5 yrs re: Chickens - if O/one thinks of that in the US English term meaning cowards, i'd have to say that perhaps they already DO run the world and have other folk doing the fighting and dying for them. IN SOME CASES ONLY - i do agree with Isaac Asimov that violence is the last resort of the incompetent, but when O/one is dealint with incompetence, there may be no choice in some situations. As with every thing else there is "a time for war, a time for peace - i swear it's not too late" Turn, turn, turn by the Turtles (sixties music) but don't take this to mean i'm a total pacifist because i'm not! In fact i come from a family where my late Master was a Veteran of the Vietnam era and my parents were both in the army in WW2 and my sis-in-law was in during the Nam era - my spiritual advisor was in post Nam and before Dessert Storm and 2 of my step-kids, via Master, where in the Navy, as well as having a Nephew and great neice in the military, USAF and Army respectively. i think that if i went through all my friends who've been military we'd be a lifetime on this post. The only reason i didn't? Uncle Sam doesn't like ladies near guns - and i was interested in military police work - who can't see so well and i wasn't legally blind (still not completely) back then, (73) but i was low vision - and untreated bipolar w/PtSd, so it's just as well. what i've found is that nobody hates war more than someone whose been in it. j/L Papa's owned always: still proudly wearing His Collar and Ring, rest in peace Beloved Master/Husband! alias "granny" matrika ye olde crone, blessed be! 6 Jan 09, 9:15 AM boston UK, 12 yrs AnonMoos wrote: Did the pear tree come with a partridge? 4 apple trees and a fig tree *grin* I got enough trouble with the chickens .... Next page