Chickens V2:

[Sir Sam]

Also remember the time a neighbors rooster landed square in my chest feet first and wings flapping when I went into their chicken coup! MAN, that hurt!

 

Thats called getting flogged by a rooster haha. the big spurs on the back of their legs see to it that it hurts. ive sent a rooster across the coup for that several times.. wel i guess every time they did it to me lol. don't kick their head though (they die :doh: ) just kick their chest and theyll eventually get scared and back down :thumbsup:

 

One of the best ways to establish yourself on the rooster totem pole is to pick a rooster up, and carry it around, and if that doesn't work, carry them around upside down.

 

Eventually they get the idea that you are the chicken at the top of the pecking order, and stop trying to flog you and just protect the girls.

 

Alpha chicken, alpha dog, same thing.

[streetjeep2.5]

Alpha chicken, alpha dog, same thing.

Gotta admit, the we went right back into that coup and gave that rooster what for! Didn't do it again!

One thing I do with any dog I have: Take them by the jowls, get in their face and tell them: I RULE! OBEY ME! Works every time. Ever since then they obey my voice, and as I treat them like they are, in the animal kingdom, the love of my life, they are absolutely obedient. They get excited when I, their alpha male, wants them to be present. Course, may need a few refresher courses through 15 or so years of being together.

[Sir Sam]

Alpha chicken, alpha dog, same thing.

Gotta admit, the we went right back into that coup and gave that rooster what for! Didn't do it again!

One thing I do with any dog I have: Take them by the jowls, get in their face and tell them: I RULE! OBEY ME! Works every time. Ever since then they obey my voice, and as I treat them like they are, in the animal kingdom, the love of my life, they are absolutely obedient. They get excited when I, their alpha male, wants them to be present. Course, may need a few refresher courses through 15 or so years of being together.

 

Yup, my dog knows I am the alpha dog here. Continually being the alpha makes things easier, don't let them push you around....ever, seems like the worst behaved dogs are the ones that never get any real discipline.

[Sir Sam]

well, I got another egg today!

 

I didn't get one yesterday, though it seemed like she was hanging out under one of the cars like she was nesting, and I'm pretty sure I heard the egg song at one point yesterday.....wondering if she is already playing hide the egg with me.

 

Well today I noticed she was doing the same thing, hanging out under the car like she wanted to lay. So I picked her up and put her in the nest box, she kinda scratched around and then got out and tried to get under the car again, so I picked her up, put her back in the nest box again, which she started checking out again. I decided this time to lock her in for a little while so if she wanted to lay she would be forced to use the nesting box, for awhile she was distressed and trying to get out, before kinda giving up and going back to the nesting box. I left her there for a half hour or so, and came back. Sure enough she was itchin to get out, and had laid an egg.

 

Woohoo!

 

Now I just gotta make sure to encourage her to lay in the nesting box, I hate playing "hide the egg" with chickens, they always find the craziest places to lay! And when you stop finding eggs one place a few days later you find a huge trove of them somewhere else!

[Squeegy410]

you do have a nest egg in your coupe don't you? if you have a nest egg theyll stop laying in strange places, they typically just stay in the nest. a nest egg is as easy as just a golf ball. oh and if you ever get a chicken snake and want it dead change your nest egg out for a egg sized light bulb :D the snake will swallow it whole then try to break the "egg" open to eat the yolk. it will then try to regurgitate the "egg". it cuts his iniards all up and he dies. one light bulb gets rid of a really annoying snake :thumbsup: with all of our chickens we get alot of chicken snakes, but we don't kill em we just haul them away. oh but anyway back to subject, if you don't have a nest egg established you should get on it :thumbsup: oh and kicking the crap out of your rooster establishes high pecking order too :banana: just as a tyrant instead of a fearless leader :yes: you can't break a mean hen though. if a hen wants to guard her eggs just throw her out, she'll come back but just snatch her eggs before she can peck you again :D

[Sir Sam]

Don't have any golfballs, usually throw some egg-like rocks in.

 

Usually they get the idea, but they just seem to find places on their own. Seems like they prefer the secluded private places, like under the KJ, or behind the MJ fenders, etc etc, easier in the winter to keep in laying in the nest boxes(warmer in the coop), but during the summer they seem to want to go outside more.

 

No snakes around here, no fleas, ticks, chiggers, fire ants, asps.........

 

The cold of the winter keeps em away.

[Squeegy410]

i don't golf either, but we work close to golf courses alot digging foundations for houses, so we always find a ton of golf balls. i also take particular delight in "letting the air pressure out of the dump truck" by laying on the horn right before a swing :rotf: :rotf:

[Sir Sam]

i don't golf either, but we work close to golf courses alot digging foundations for houses, so we always find a ton of golf balls. i also take particular delight in "letting the air pressure out of the dump truck" by laying on the horn right before a swing :rotf: :rotf:

 

hahahhahahaha! Truth be told I have a particular hatred of golf, kinda ticks me off when I see stark natural beauty only to be obscured by manicured grass and artificial hills. Kinda like leprosy on the face of America. But that's just me.

 

Plus, and not to offend anyone that golfs, most golf people I have known are pretenious shallow, and vain. I get tired of see the same cliche golfs types trying to impress me drivin their audi, caddy, or Lexus. These are also the same douchenozzles who drive agressively without turns signals and common courtesy on the road.

[Pete M]

Clearly you live in a beautiful part of this country. The golf courses near me are the "wilderness". :(

[Squeegy410]

i don't golf either, but we work close to golf courses alot digging foundations for houses, so we always find a ton of golf balls. i also take particular delight in "letting the air pressure out of the dump truck" by laying on the horn right before a swing :rotf: :rotf:

 

hahahhahahaha! Truth be told I have a particular hatred of golf, kinda ticks me off when I see stark natural beauty only to be obscured by manicured grass and artificial hills. Kinda like leprosy on the face of America. But that's just me.

 

Plus, and not to offend anyone that golfs, most golf people I have known are pretenious shallow, and vain. I get tired of see the same cliche golfs types trying to impress me drivin their audi, caddy, or Lexus. These are also the same douchenozzles who drive agressively without turns signals and common courtesy on the road.

 

First off, kudos for the use of the word douchenozzle :cheers: I'm glad I'm not the only one who says it :thumbsup:

and secondly i know exactly where your coming from. It especially ticks me of when the first bright sunny day of the year I'm out working trying to make this country move, while the high mucky mucks migrate to the golf course for the summer, after having migrated to their beach house in the winter. And the biggest problem is these people are supposed to be the "imporant" ones because they have money, but in reality they are useless and won't know what to do once their parents inheritance finally runs dry. SOrry bout that. that is my rrant for today. but anyway... chickens?

[Sir Sam]

Clearly you live in a beautiful part of this country. The golf courses near me are the "wilderness". :(

 

I don't mean to brag or sound "holyer than thou" but yes I do.

 

I just hate when there is a beautiful stark natural beauty of the rockies around me, and then right over there someone had to plant a bunch of non-native grass, manicure it, cut it, water it(which water is a big deal and a big resource here), all because someone wanted a golf course there.

 

Maybe the world just doesn't need one more golf course?

 

As a reminder, this is the scenery I am referring to:

 

 

First off, kudos for the use of the word douchenozzle :cheers: I'm glad I'm not the only one who says it :thumbsup:

and secondly i know exactly where your coming from. It especially ticks me of when the first bright sunny day of the year I'm out working trying to make this country move, while the high mucky mucks migrate to the golf course for the summer, after having migrated to their beach house in the winter. And the biggest problem is these people are supposed to be the "imporant" ones because they have money, but in reality they are useless and won't know what to do once their parents inheritance finally runs dry. SOrry bout that. that is my rrant for today. but anyway... chickens?

 

No egg yet, gonna go check on her soon and see if she is trying to hide the easter eggs yet.

[Sir Sam]

Got another egg! Also a bunch of them decided to dust bath together.