Hi I'm from North Texas

[Chubbicthe2nd]

Hi from UK

Congratulations on your 3 children and having a good husband, it was so kind of him rescuing these little chick's.

Do you have any photos to share

Thank you for the congratulations! Yes he is.

He pretends like he's all tough but he is sweeter than he admits. Five of our chicks turned out to be roosters, and most of them are too aggressive to have around our toddlers, and he's been talking about how easy it would be to butcher and eat them. Then the other night he said, "I think when I butcher them, I'm going to cry". I nearly fell out of bed. He doesn't talk about crying typically


We still haven't butchered them yet, we're just keeping all the hens inside the coop so they won't get overmated, and are having a little bachelor flock that circles the coop and sleeps on top of it at night. The Roosters free range and I like to think we gave them a good life. We'll have to butcher them eventually except for the gentle Blue Australorp, which will be safe around our kids I think.

I was hoping to rehome the other four but the only people interested in them seem to be the types that I am worried will cockfight them or butcher them non-humanely. We're just trying to give them a few more months of a good life, and butcher them as humanely as we can.

They're like our little feathered dogs. My husband pets them every night and they come running whenever he goes out. They are (as far as we can tell) Old English game and Rhode Island Reds. Alas they love to scare my kids.

Occasionally a hen will get out of the coop, and all the roosters go after them like a medieval band of Mongol warriors. . But we can't keep the hens cooped up forever. Also while I keep my kids away from the roosters, kids are curious little escape artists too... Not too worried about my three year old, she's sensible and seems to understand when things are dangerous. It's my almost two-year-old that's the concern, she's a plucky little kid that tries to climb furniture and then dive off head first before I can catch her. She got a lot of spunk from her father.

 

[Jenbirdee]

Thank you for the compliment . I tried to be one but not really. My dad, twin sister, and little brother are really good writers. My little brother was working on a post-apocalyptic alien invasion story in middle school, and it's still one of the best things I've read . When he first showed it to me I couldn't believe it was his because of how well written it was for a middle schooler, but it is. He's grown now and dropped it a long time ago, I hope one day he'll be able to pick it up and finish it. He wrote his first poem before he could read. He was 4 years old and had just learned his alphabet, he wandered into the room i was in and asked me "how do I spell 'the moon was a slinder of silver....'" I just grabbed a pencil and scribbled the whole thing down. I wish I didn't lose it, it was really sweet.

Well, I really think you are a natural. Perhaps you could write a nice article about some thing about your chickens for our website here.