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Important chicken update

Umm…they’re fine.

Click the picture to be whisked away to YouTube for a short video verifying the complete fineness of my chickens.

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Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:04 pm

Ahhhhhhh!


Comment from Nina from GCP
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:04 pm

No, I meant to say “Awwwwwwwww!

Huge difference.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:07 pm

QUICK!! HIDE THEM! MEL GIBSON IS COMING WITH THE SECRET RECIPE IN HIS POCKET!!!!!!

😉


Comment from Mike C.
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:33 pm

“Important chicken update”

I’m pretty certain that’s one o’ them thar non sequitars.


Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:41 pm

egg layers or future KFC?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 9, 2010, 8:57 pm

Pets with benefits, Monotone. Bantams lay little teeny eggs, and not many of them.

But they have loads of personality. You know, for a chicken.


Comment from jw
Time: June 9, 2010, 9:38 pm

Awwwwwwwwwwwww….I love chooks!


Comment from Foghorn Leghorn
Time: June 9, 2010, 10:20 pm

I say! I say! Thems some fine lookin’ young hens.


Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 9, 2010, 10:39 pm

Ahhh, Makes sense…. parents had a pet duck…. go figure…. named it sycamore…. “Sycamore The Duck”…..


Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: June 9, 2010, 10:53 pm

Holy cuteness!!!!


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 9, 2010, 11:39 pm

Quick question. Are your little cluckers silky bandies? Those guys tend to get quite handsome……


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 9, 2010, 11:43 pm

No, they’re Pekins. Which are called Cochins in the States, I believe.

Their feet are covered in feathers, which look rather like bloomers or pantaloons. Apparently, it makes them easy to keep in a set run, because they HATE getting shit on their feet.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 10, 2010, 12:36 am

LOL… Who doesn’t 😉


Comment from Pupster
Time: June 10, 2010, 12:40 am

Chickens.

Why did it have to be chickens?


Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 10, 2010, 1:08 am

because ducks can fight and a goose is just plain silly? plus… hamsters got nothing on chickens…


Comment from Joan of Argghh!
Time: June 10, 2010, 1:45 am

Flannery O’Conner would approve. They are fine and beautiful and really, really cute.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 10, 2010, 1:45 am

Actually Mono, I would take Geese for my property if I didn’t have 6 dogs and a cat. Geese will beat the LIVING SHIT out of you if they don’t like you…..


Comment from Pavel
Time: June 10, 2010, 1:49 am

With all this exciting chicken news, we should be put in mind of one of the best punchlines of all time, viz. “Excuse me, ma’am. Could you please hold my cock and pullet while I climb down to scratch my ass?”

While this punchline is frequently preceded by setup vignettes involving domesticated fowl and equidae-related creatures, it freestands nicely, much like the vaunted “Rectum? Hell, it nearly killed ‘im.”

Others in the same vein:

1) My wife told me to stand here.
2) Saul’s dead; Chrysler for sale.
3) If I have given to see a little further, it is by standing on the faces of midgets.


Comment from Pavel
Time: June 10, 2010, 2:14 am

PS to Scubafreak: I used to live in Lakewood, and would daily take my dogs for a walk in Belmar Park. (Note to flatlanders: Belmar Park is Canadian Goose Central. Like 5000 or so of those shit-all-over-the-sidewalk bastards.)

For three seasons of the year, my dogs would chase the geese with abandon, and think themselves very tough when the geese took wing.

When spring came and the adorable little yellow goslings appeared, the mama geese fought back with ferocity, and my dogs would get all confused about how you can chase big geese, but not little geese.

Thus was their world turned upside down, and thus was their confusion made such that they cannot for the life of them figure out how to work the automatic doggie-feeder thingie I just blew twenty-five bucks on.

For this reason I curse geese.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 10, 2010, 2:21 am

Well Pavel, you should be able to appreciate this then…

http://www.break.com/index/crazy-goose-attacks-boater-and-dog.html


Comment from Pavel
Time: June 10, 2010, 2:36 am

Yup, that’s the bastid, scubafreak. I let my dogs watch. They were retraumatized, and are now cowering in my closet. Thanks a lot 🙂


Comment from Anonymous
Time: June 10, 2010, 3:19 am

you should be able to appreciate this then…

HAHAHAHAHA

Goose musta had her kittens somewheres near. My FiL would have just broken it’s neck. He’s an old farm boy like that.


Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: June 10, 2010, 3:34 am

Good gravy! They are the teacup miniatures of fowl! The chihuahuas of chickens! Veritable midgets of feathery fluff!

I really didn’t realize they were that small.


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 10, 2010, 3:55 am

Oh Gawd, here come the chicken mcnugget jokes…… 😉


Comment from David Gillies
Time: June 10, 2010, 4:22 am

What were you shooting with? Nice clear picture (I only have video on my iPod nano and it’s not exactly hi-def.)


Comment from steve
Time: June 10, 2010, 9:55 am

What do they lay for eggs? Jellybeans?


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2010, 11:00 am

They’re just eight weeks old. They’ll get bigger. They ain’t going to be big fat buff orpingtons (which apparently aren’t great layers anyway), but they mamas were decent sized. Small, but not miniature.

Uncle B bought me a Flip for Christmas, David. Just getting the hang of it.


Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 10, 2010, 1:59 pm

@scubafreak yeah so would i if i didnt have 6 cats and a dog (seriously)


Comment from Scubafreak
Time: June 10, 2010, 7:13 pm

LOL Mono, I’ll trade you 3 dogs for 3 cats…… 😉


Comment from Monotone (The Elderish)
Time: June 10, 2010, 7:20 pm

LOL surrre …. lol….nah. They cover the dog parts pretty good (they can fetch)


Comment from steve
Time: June 10, 2010, 8:46 pm

You know….

Lost somewhere in the receding background of all the OOooohing, Aahhhing and Awwwwing about these two chicklets is the chickenpoop update.

I seem to recall that, around a week ago, SWeasel was busy with some Joseph Mengele inspired experiments that were gar-on-teed to turn everyday ordinary chicken poop into some kind of Al Fresco Guano sculpture of art gallery, if not museum, quality.


Comment from EW1(SG)
Time: June 10, 2010, 9:09 pm

I don’t know if the two micro subjects of discussion have grown large enough to have a poop yet.

And I believe the earlier discussion was purely in the theoretical realm.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: June 10, 2010, 9:31 pm

Oh, they poop. Indeed, they poop.


Comment from Oh Hell
Time: June 11, 2010, 3:27 am

We used to have chickens. They came to “Here Kitty,, Kitty, Kitty… but then so did everything else, pony, cats, dogs, geese, ducks, turkeys – I felt like the pied piper.
But ours were not nearly as cute as yours!!


Comment from steve
Time: June 11, 2010, 6:23 pm

As a bit of motivation for your future layers….

<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1285579/Eggs-straordinary-Harriet-hen-crack-record.html&quot;.Do like this, ladies

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