Chickens

We live in a county island - right by a busy freeway and busy streets in Chandler, AZ.. anytime a friend comes over they are always amazed that there is all this farm property in the middle of the city! As soon as you drive into the neighborhood there are chickens EVERYWHERE!

Anyways, my mom loves them but we haven't gotten any of our own yet since we have not built a coop (shes been talking about it for years!).. every morning and night my stepdad throws some scratch grains for the neighbors chickens when he goes to feed the horses/steer. We have about 10 that have figured it out and they come like clockwork!

Here are some pictures I took - I don't know one thing about chickens so I don't know any breeds - I just know I like the goofy looking young one! He had a brother that was all black but he drown in a water bin a couple days ago :(

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I don't know if they should be fed in the gravel or not - they don't eat when we offer food in the chicken feeders and we always have horses in the pasture so I don't want to lure them into there since I've known of a couple chickens that were stepped on by horses :/

Most birds digest their food through their craw. A little gravel helps grind the seed or grain. Even cage birds should have a separate container of oyster shell or a cuttlebone since the don't have access to gravel.

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Originally Posted by Debbienflorida

Most birds digest their food through their craw. A little gravel helps grind the seed or grain. Even cage birds should have a separate container of oyster shell or a cuttlebone since the don't have access to gravel.

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Yeah, I remember that from when my sister had birds, she had some of that stuff for them.. I wasn't sure if too much would be bad, but when I watch them they seem to be good at picking out the pieces, doves and sparrows always show up to eat the leftovers.

that first one looks like a silky....I love em!!!!

Ohhhh watch out! Wandering gangs of inner city chickens! Next thing you know they'll be holding up poor old ladies for chicken scratch!

Where will it end!!!! :O

Aww, I cant wait till I can have my own chickens!! :D

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Originally Posted by Patrick Long

that first one looks like a silky....I love em!!!!

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Thats the one I like, I liked his brother more though :(

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Ohhhh watch out! Wandering gangs of inner city chickens! Next thing you know they'll be holding up poor old ladies for chicken scratch!

Where will it end!!!! :O

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Hahah, all we have are old ladies living in this neighborhood! I hope they're watching their backs the one day a month they leave their houses!

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Originally Posted by littleindiangirl

Aww, I cant wait till I can have my own chickens!! :D

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Me too, I really want my mom to get the coop built so we can get some, she has started looking online so she might be getting the ball rolling. We actually have 2 that live in our hay barn but they are mean so I'm not too impressed with them.

yummy food! :)

Cool chickens, they are pretty cool to watch when you feed them, or when a beatle craws into the coop.lol
I got about 30 or so of them myself.

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Ohhhh watch out! Wandering gangs of inner city chickens! Next thing you know they'll be holding up poor old ladies for chicken scratch!

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Oh I wouldnt put it past them, chickens are cruel animals. One time a crow got into the coop and they beat the crap out of it before I could even get to it. Once we caught it we released it, it was flying low, about 4 feet, it felt good to save the lil guy..... that is until about 100 feet of flying later, the dog jumped up and got it.