Congratulations on the chickens! My parents have some and they love the fresh eggs, if not the stinky chicken smell (they have like 12, not just 2).
I was wondering if I could ask you some questions about bunnies, because I know you have some of those. We had a baby cottontail run into our garage, chased by a cat, and now he doesn't want to leave. I have been giving him vegetables and bunny food and I don't mind if he stays, but he is making an awful lot of rabbit poop in the garage. Would it be mean to a wild bunny to get him a hutch to live in? What do you think the best thing to do would be? Thanks so much, I really enjoy reading your blog!
When I was a teenager, I inherited a parakeet named Baby. I loved that bird.
Too bad L. is absolutely opposed to having any kind of birds as pets... I'd totally get another one. Of course, my cat would probably enjoy that a little TOO much.
RM, are the hens loud, i.e. loud enough to wake the neighbors if they were fairly close by? I ask because I dearly want to get some chickens, too. I just don't know if it's feasible.
Jinny, I don't know much about wild cottontails, but I did find some info from the House Rabbit Society, which has always proved reliable on other bunny issues.
Z, I'll bet your cat would love a bird. My Lab is still trying to "alert" us to the parakeets in the living room. I'm sure she would love to play with them, too. Not gonna happen.
Susan, the birds are so quiet that unless the dog startles them and they squawk, I have to be right up on them to hear them "chattering" to each other. They go to bed early -- once it's dusk, they're nodding on a perch and when real darkness falls they head for their house. They don't come out until the sunlight comes over the house and wakes 'em up.
They're definitely quieter than the three chickens I borrowed from a friend a year or two ago, but one of those was a rooster and he was very noisy. But these pullets haven't started laying yet (any day now!) and what kind of noise they'll make then is anybody's guess.
Whoa! Am I the only one who thought they were in the wrong place? Nice peacock!
My mom once tried to raise exotic chickens. For profit. In a farming community. They didn't sell, needless to say, and we had all these Top Hats and whateverthehell else they were running around.
We did have some normal ones. My sister named a Rhode Island Red "Oh Tame One". She was always called by her full name. We had a buff hen named "Mr. Man". Not sure why.
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