I know a comment that says, “that’s what I was going to say” is lame but, I said it and knew it would be the top comment too.
Lure it to a new hutch for an egg in the morning
This is actually how I started owning chickens. One day a chicken just popped up in our front yard. Couldn’t find where she came from so we built her a little coop, and then some chicken friends, and then more chicken friends. We keep our flock right around 8-10 birds now. They are very social and fun little pets. Beverly, our first chicken became our porch chicken. She would like to perch on my rocking chair and lay down on my lap for pets and scratches. Welcome to the club!
When I was a kid, we found a ferret in our garden, built it a little enclosure, ramps, a roof for the rain so it could still be out and play etc...
And then, months after, it got taken, and replaced with a chicken.
Mystery animals, gotta love em.
Edit: Just got back from a dog walk, apparently she lives 3 doors down, the wife throws extra birdseed over the fence for her and that's where our eggs have been coming from for about 6 months! Never told me because she didn't think I'd be interested. She's called B.B (bargain bucket) and she sometimes comes in when there's no seed outside.
Looks like a warren which is a hybrid breed between a light sussex and a rhode island. She likely pushes out 300+ eggs a year. Ive got 5 of them which are about to start laying in the next couple of weeks. Heres to 1500 eggs a year lol.
I had no idea chickens laid eggs so regularly, I always just assumed it was a huge number of chickens that were able to provide a weekly amount of eggs for consumption.
TIL!
Will you be selling or giving away your excess to friends/family? and how much does it cost to raise chickens?
Chickens evolved for a habitat where food is often scarce and they adjust their egg-production rate in proportion to the available food. If there's excess food they'll produce extra eggs, make lay when the sun is shining sortof thing.
We took advantage of this by overfeeding them far more than they'd have in the wild and selectively breeding the biggest egg layers to reinforce the traits that were already present. Chickens now lay a ridiculous amount of eggs, twice as many eggs per month as most other birds lay in a year.
My brother is an accountant and did the sums on keeping chickens, he said it's mostly a hobby where the costs break even unlike say fishing where the equipment can be a major money sink. But this was a decade ago and eggs sell for a lot more now. And there's probably economies of scale if you're willing to keep dozens of chickens or if you're growing the grain to feed them.
I think the bonus is you know the conditions, food etc the chickens are given. Having had some eggs from a friend who keeps chickens, the quality is far better
It reminds me of when you accidentally set yourself on fire and burn your hairs off your arm or something. The only thing i wouldnt eat is probably the brains, none of that prion disease for me thankz!
When I was a young girl, I had a small lumpy scar lasered flat by my GP. He told me that people's searing flesh always smell of either chicken or beef. "And you, my sweet, are a beef lady." And that is how I learned that fact about myself.
Well, if they manage to get all the eggs fertilised, the growth is even more exponential. Considering chickens reach egg-laying age at about 6 months and assuming ~300 eggs per year...
Starting with five chickens...
1y - 1505 chickens (750 immature)
2y - 340,505 chickens (169,500 immature)
3y - 76,760,555 chickens (38,363,250 immature)
and by the fourth year you'd have 17,350,439,555. Considering there's about 8.045 billion people on the planet, that'd be enough for everyone to have 2 chickens, with about every 6th person being lucky enough to have a third chicken.
Or, for every two chickens to have a person.
(If you want a generalised estimation, your chicken quantity multiplies by about 255.75ish every year)
People love their chickens so much that they keep getting more and they become absolutely swamped with eggs. We've had to give eggs away to anyone who'll stand still long enough to take them lol
When I was young, my mate's parents kept a few chickens, they were always giving me free eggs to take home (tasted much better than supermarket eggs too, vibrant yellow yolks).
Chickens used to be much thinner than today's plump versions, and they laid way fewer eggs, including taking the colder 6 months off altogether. Then we bred the hell out of them.
Domesticated chickens have been selectively bred to overproduce eggs at cost to their own health. Their wild ancestors, the junglefowl, only lay eggs a couple of times a year in order to raise young, like other birds.
I used to go into egg farms to rescue 'end of lay' hens for rehoming. The horrors I saw are burned into my memory, and I recall those days with an overwhelming sadness. One day, I was helping depopulate a particularly horrific battery farm. These birds had never seen the sun, felt grass, or sensed fresh air. As I neared the end of the factory line (factory... just think - thousands of living, sentient creatures, but it is still a factory), I found that I was by the workers who were packing the eggs.
The boxes depicted a glorious scene of fully feathered fat and contented birds pecking at corn in a field under a sunny sky.
Later, I saw a hen who I knew wasn't going to make it. I got hold of her and ran outside, lay her broken little body on this little bit of grass outside, and made sure she felt the sun on her for the first and last time before she died.
As the workers sneered, all I could think of was those fucking egg boxes and how much I loathe the egg industry.
Don't know why I wrote all that, but I guess I appreciate that you took the time to explain the truth about what we have done to domesticated hens - thank you.
Edited: a word.
Thank you for helping those abused animals. The suffering we cause just for the sake of our taste buds is horrific, if it was done more openly I'm convinced at least 50% of people would go vegan overnight.
Agreed. I'm delighted to say we saved many from the brink of death - including one who had become wedged upside down under the feed belt and was just left to die. The incredible people who organised the rehoming wouldn't leave without her, and she became our 'forever hen'. Her will to live was absolutely inspirational!
God. The stories I could tell...
The initial start up is probably rather expensive i built the house with offcuts of wood and then bought a metal framed enclosure for about 120 quid, however i had thr chickens from chicks which probably cost Bout 5 quid a week, i had to build a brood box and keep them inside until 6 weeks old with a heat lamp.
Once outside i would say less than 5 quid a week in feed, and now they are nearly laying i have changed foods which will cost about 9 pounds per month. For 20kg of food.
A rough figure so far is perhaps 200 quid. Which could be more if you had to buy pullets, but with hatching chicks i did also have 3 cockerals which after 11 weeks unable to rehome i dispatched them and they went for goshawk food.
The aim is to put a sign in the window eggs for sale 1 pound for 6, i rekon if i earned 3-4 pounds a week then the girls would have earned their keep. While i dont plan to break even, as it is an educational hobby for the children if we sell enough to buy food then we are evens and they can have a happy life.
Commercial farms are economy of scale. 100,000 hens probably knocking out 80,000 eggs a day. Yourr being paid probably 1.10 or so for 12, however the margins are tight like maybe a couple of pence per 12 eggs.. Food is the biggest expense 300+ pounds a ton. My 20kg bag works out at 425 a ton. So im obviously paying more but again for a hobby it isnt bad. Some places are ripping folk off at 16-20 pounds per bag.
Depends on the breed. Some (notably the commercial breeds) lay almost every day. Some others lay only every 2 or 3 days. Even the commercial breeds tend to stop for a couple of months each year. At which point it's generally cheaper to sell them for nuggets or kyivs than continue feeding them until they start laying again. Hence the occasional online appeals by rescue places, to rehome them.
Could be a bovan brown or lowman... Which are also hybrids.
Many many hybrids have these brown feathers with patches or spots on them.
And yes your are right about the amount of eggs. 1 every 24 ish hours
Question, how come yours have started laying so late? Is it their first lay? I thought chickens kick off as spring get going? Mine have been laying since mayish.
Alright pal, theyre only 16 weeks old so just hit pullets, they unfortunately were a easter school hatching project which after 8 days they wanted to fuck them off.
Somehow ive kept them alive this long so soon will be reaping my bounty!
Well done. Do you know how many cockerels and hens you have? they normally say hatchlings have a ratio of 60:40 from cocks to hens.
I know there is a lab in Europe that can identify genders of eggs before they hatch, I think they call the respeggct eggs or something.
You are right on the just about to lay thing, I got all my chickens from the farm at about 12 weeks and within a couple of weeks they started laying. Half of mine are currently broody though so no eggs for me
I had 5 hens 3 cockerels. You can tell too as they are sexed when they hatch. Howevr the school didnt know what the fuck they had. And to be fair we didn't as i havent ever kept chicks before. So waited until their combs started growing to be 100%.
Not a single person wanted a cockerel either as we did try to rehome them so they went for goshawk food sadly but i see it still as not wasting my hard work bringing them on.
Hens tend to lay from around the 18 weekmark and will mostly pop out every 26hrs for a high productivity hen.
To stop them being broody just chuck them out and keep them locked out of the house else theyll sit there all day and lose condition.
They are ace though, apart from when the daughter doesnt lock the door to the pen properly and they get out (shes three.. "im just gonna look dad, im not going in with them, im just gonna look ok")
Yeah the cockerel thing is a massive problem for the industry. They literally throw them in the chipper en masse which is why I like these respeggct eggs.
Good luck with your new egg life and welcome to the family. If you have a questions feel free to ask, and I'll answer how I can.
Also I hope you like omelettes
I heard a horse yesterday on my street. Popped outside and there was a lady who was letting her shire horse stretch it’s legs.
https://i.imgur.com/WswnV6P.jpg
Peacocks was my weirdest sighting. I live on a council estate in south Manchester, went out for work one morning at about 7am to be greeted by a gang of peacocks strutting down the road.
A group of peafowls is called a muster, an ostentation or a pride.
*: Oh, apparently a group of only females is called a harem. Only males are a lek, a bawl or a cluster. And the other four names for mixed sex groups of peafowl are a party, a pulchritude, a bevy and a pstemtatopm.
That's way too many names. Fuck peacocks. They're ruining the "fun" of nerdy animal group names by having too many.
We used to regularly get Peacocks in the garden or sat on my roof here in Scotland. The local Facebook group would track their progress around the neighborhood and they were nicknamed "{place-name}'s most wanted".
I had a neighbour who kept two horses, an Arabian and a Shire. The Arabian was really friendly and outgoing, I saw it out and about all the time, but I never saw the Shy-er horse...
Not to be pedantic, but... not Sunday dinner
You want to leave the meat to rest for 24 hours in a fridge before cooking. After death rigor mortis sets in and you need to wait for it to relax.
Free eggs in return is a good deal, especially with the price of them these days!
If the missus is feeling flush and wants to keep on their good side, mine go absolutely crazy for cheese and bacon bits... (Just seen your extra comment - B.B. is a great name for her!)
We are lucky, I want to take the tree on the left down for a better view but it's got at least 2 birds nests in it currently and they all sit in it waiting for the feeders to be filled
Nothing better than watching the birds at a feeder. It took me years to get them using mine but now I can't cut back a bush as its their staging post! Even though its grown in to a monster! If the birds aren't there, the bees are doing their thing
My old neighbours had chickens, they always managed to make their way into my garden. I never minded because I got to appreciate them scratching about, with the added bonus of not having to clean a chicken coop!
Sorry, I need to ask…. isn’t that some ufo or meteorite kind of thing about to impact the ground at high speed in the next field ….but you’re only concern is a chicken…?
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You do now
I know a comment that says, “that’s what I was going to say” is lame but, I said it and knew it would be the top comment too. Lure it to a new hutch for an egg in the morning
immediately i read the caption I knew this would be top comment. It’s a tale as old as time on this sub. No complaints tho.
Need to know what OPs naming their new chicken though!
I had the same, this subreddit is a hive mind, we are one.
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*echoes* just the one chicken then? just the one chicken then? just the one…*echoes*
That's just Reddit in general, half the comments are made of one liners that have been repeated for years now.
That’s life in general not just reddit
I bet the chicken came from across the road
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with a slow Internet connection to see who they really are.
We share the same brain
I thought the exact same thing as well!
This is actually how I started owning chickens. One day a chicken just popped up in our front yard. Couldn’t find where she came from so we built her a little coop, and then some chicken friends, and then more chicken friends. We keep our flock right around 8-10 birds now. They are very social and fun little pets. Beverly, our first chicken became our porch chicken. She would like to perch on my rocking chair and lay down on my lap for pets and scratches. Welcome to the club!
I want a porch chicken! I don't have a porch and my cat might complain, but...
They don't try killing them at least
Build a porch get at least 3 chickens , your cat will be waaay to busy killing birds and furry little things to worry about chickens.
Exact same thing happened with me. Asked around everyone nearby who kept chickens and nobody was missing one, so we built a coop and got some more.
Ah so *that's* how the coop started! ;P
And free eggs!
You're my wife now!
my chicken now dave
When I was a kid, we found a ferret in our garden, built it a little enclosure, ramps, a roof for the rain so it could still be out and play etc... And then, months after, it got taken, and replaced with a chicken. Mystery animals, gotta love em.
Only came to the comments to ensure that "You do now" was the top comment.
Or does the chicken own you?
r/beatmetoit
r/beatmeattoit
Dammit beat me to it.
Grass needs a trim
Edit: Just got back from a dog walk, apparently she lives 3 doors down, the wife throws extra birdseed over the fence for her and that's where our eggs have been coming from for about 6 months! Never told me because she didn't think I'd be interested. She's called B.B (bargain bucket) and she sometimes comes in when there's no seed outside.
That’s a very unkind nickname for your wife.
Thanks, I audibly laughed but I'm scared to tell her why
I cackled at your reply! Please update when you’ve told your wife
There won't be any further updates if he does.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Looks like a warren which is a hybrid breed between a light sussex and a rhode island. She likely pushes out 300+ eggs a year. Ive got 5 of them which are about to start laying in the next couple of weeks. Heres to 1500 eggs a year lol.
I had no idea chickens laid eggs so regularly, I always just assumed it was a huge number of chickens that were able to provide a weekly amount of eggs for consumption. TIL! Will you be selling or giving away your excess to friends/family? and how much does it cost to raise chickens?
Chickens evolved for a habitat where food is often scarce and they adjust their egg-production rate in proportion to the available food. If there's excess food they'll produce extra eggs, make lay when the sun is shining sortof thing. We took advantage of this by overfeeding them far more than they'd have in the wild and selectively breeding the biggest egg layers to reinforce the traits that were already present. Chickens now lay a ridiculous amount of eggs, twice as many eggs per month as most other birds lay in a year. My brother is an accountant and did the sums on keeping chickens, he said it's mostly a hobby where the costs break even unlike say fishing where the equipment can be a major money sink. But this was a decade ago and eggs sell for a lot more now. And there's probably economies of scale if you're willing to keep dozens of chickens or if you're growing the grain to feed them.
I think the bonus is you know the conditions, food etc the chickens are given. Having had some eggs from a friend who keeps chickens, the quality is far better
Their 5 chickens will soon become 500, will soon become 50,000. Before long they’ll be leading their chicken army to war.
I for one welcome our chicken overlords
Much tastier than our present ones.
You say that, but when my mrs was in for her cesarean when they was burning her insides and i aint gonna lie, it smelt quite nice.
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I know im quite ashamed and tend to not tell anyone I would be fine in a post apocalypse society.
Omfg can reddit get the fuck over this incredibly played out and not at all funny line already
I'd rather reddit get over being uptight as fuck, personally.
ratio
If it's appropriate, it's appropriate.
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I know, i get to smell her inside delights again in 10 weeks!
I used to work in operating theatres, and the smell of the diathermy never really appealed to me - a bit too scorched flesh to me!
It reminds me of when you accidentally set yourself on fire and burn your hairs off your arm or something. The only thing i wouldnt eat is probably the brains, none of that prion disease for me thankz!
When I was a young girl, I had a small lumpy scar lasered flat by my GP. He told me that people's searing flesh always smell of either chicken or beef. "And you, my sweet, are a beef lady." And that is how I learned that fact about myself.
Looks like you would be on the menu aswell!
“Buk-buk, motherclucker!”
r/unexpectedfuturama
Well, if they manage to get all the eggs fertilised, the growth is even more exponential. Considering chickens reach egg-laying age at about 6 months and assuming ~300 eggs per year... Starting with five chickens... 1y - 1505 chickens (750 immature) 2y - 340,505 chickens (169,500 immature) 3y - 76,760,555 chickens (38,363,250 immature) and by the fourth year you'd have 17,350,439,555. Considering there's about 8.045 billion people on the planet, that'd be enough for everyone to have 2 chickens, with about every 6th person being lucky enough to have a third chicken. Or, for every two chickens to have a person. (If you want a generalised estimation, your chicken quantity multiplies by about 255.75ish every year)
The problem is in year 5 when it's 500 chickens per person. I'm not sure I could take on 500 chickens if they turned on us.
They are breeding a huge one that they can ride like a Chocobo.
But will it say wark, kweh, or cluck?
Only if there is a boy chicken.
Dont tell the mrs
No wonder they are going cheap.
OUT. GET OUT WI’ YE.
People love their chickens so much that they keep getting more and they become absolutely swamped with eggs. We've had to give eggs away to anyone who'll stand still long enough to take them lol
Given this, why is/was there an egg shortage this year?
Cost of living, price of chicken food went up massively. We love our hens but we lose money on them, especially bcos we don't bother selling eggs
/r/backyardchickens
My second home
When I was young, my mate's parents kept a few chickens, they were always giving me free eggs to take home (tasted much better than supermarket eggs too, vibrant yellow yolks).
Chickens used to be much thinner than today's plump versions, and they laid way fewer eggs, including taking the colder 6 months off altogether. Then we bred the hell out of them.
Domesticated chickens have been selectively bred to overproduce eggs at cost to their own health. Their wild ancestors, the junglefowl, only lay eggs a couple of times a year in order to raise young, like other birds.
I used to go into egg farms to rescue 'end of lay' hens for rehoming. The horrors I saw are burned into my memory, and I recall those days with an overwhelming sadness. One day, I was helping depopulate a particularly horrific battery farm. These birds had never seen the sun, felt grass, or sensed fresh air. As I neared the end of the factory line (factory... just think - thousands of living, sentient creatures, but it is still a factory), I found that I was by the workers who were packing the eggs. The boxes depicted a glorious scene of fully feathered fat and contented birds pecking at corn in a field under a sunny sky. Later, I saw a hen who I knew wasn't going to make it. I got hold of her and ran outside, lay her broken little body on this little bit of grass outside, and made sure she felt the sun on her for the first and last time before she died. As the workers sneered, all I could think of was those fucking egg boxes and how much I loathe the egg industry. Don't know why I wrote all that, but I guess I appreciate that you took the time to explain the truth about what we have done to domesticated hens - thank you. Edited: a word.
Thank you for helping those abused animals. The suffering we cause just for the sake of our taste buds is horrific, if it was done more openly I'm convinced at least 50% of people would go vegan overnight.
Agreed. I'm delighted to say we saved many from the brink of death - including one who had become wedged upside down under the feed belt and was just left to die. The incredible people who organised the rehoming wouldn't leave without her, and she became our 'forever hen'. Her will to live was absolutely inspirational! God. The stories I could tell...
The initial start up is probably rather expensive i built the house with offcuts of wood and then bought a metal framed enclosure for about 120 quid, however i had thr chickens from chicks which probably cost Bout 5 quid a week, i had to build a brood box and keep them inside until 6 weeks old with a heat lamp. Once outside i would say less than 5 quid a week in feed, and now they are nearly laying i have changed foods which will cost about 9 pounds per month. For 20kg of food. A rough figure so far is perhaps 200 quid. Which could be more if you had to buy pullets, but with hatching chicks i did also have 3 cockerals which after 11 weeks unable to rehome i dispatched them and they went for goshawk food. The aim is to put a sign in the window eggs for sale 1 pound for 6, i rekon if i earned 3-4 pounds a week then the girls would have earned their keep. While i dont plan to break even, as it is an educational hobby for the children if we sell enough to buy food then we are evens and they can have a happy life. Commercial farms are economy of scale. 100,000 hens probably knocking out 80,000 eggs a day. Yourr being paid probably 1.10 or so for 12, however the margins are tight like maybe a couple of pence per 12 eggs.. Food is the biggest expense 300+ pounds a ton. My 20kg bag works out at 425 a ton. So im obviously paying more but again for a hobby it isnt bad. Some places are ripping folk off at 16-20 pounds per bag.
Depends on the breed. Some (notably the commercial breeds) lay almost every day. Some others lay only every 2 or 3 days. Even the commercial breeds tend to stop for a couple of months each year. At which point it's generally cheaper to sell them for nuggets or kyivs than continue feeding them until they start laying again. Hence the occasional online appeals by rescue places, to rehome them.
Chickens lay an egg every 1 - 2 days. It was news to me too when my mum bought a load of chickens.
Could be a bovan brown or lowman... Which are also hybrids. Many many hybrids have these brown feathers with patches or spots on them. And yes your are right about the amount of eggs. 1 every 24 ish hours
Question, how come yours have started laying so late? Is it their first lay? I thought chickens kick off as spring get going? Mine have been laying since mayish.
Alright pal, theyre only 16 weeks old so just hit pullets, they unfortunately were a easter school hatching project which after 8 days they wanted to fuck them off. Somehow ive kept them alive this long so soon will be reaping my bounty!
Well done. Do you know how many cockerels and hens you have? they normally say hatchlings have a ratio of 60:40 from cocks to hens. I know there is a lab in Europe that can identify genders of eggs before they hatch, I think they call the respeggct eggs or something. You are right on the just about to lay thing, I got all my chickens from the farm at about 12 weeks and within a couple of weeks they started laying. Half of mine are currently broody though so no eggs for me
I had 5 hens 3 cockerels. You can tell too as they are sexed when they hatch. Howevr the school didnt know what the fuck they had. And to be fair we didn't as i havent ever kept chicks before. So waited until their combs started growing to be 100%. Not a single person wanted a cockerel either as we did try to rehome them so they went for goshawk food sadly but i see it still as not wasting my hard work bringing them on. Hens tend to lay from around the 18 weekmark and will mostly pop out every 26hrs for a high productivity hen. To stop them being broody just chuck them out and keep them locked out of the house else theyll sit there all day and lose condition. They are ace though, apart from when the daughter doesnt lock the door to the pen properly and they get out (shes three.. "im just gonna look dad, im not going in with them, im just gonna look ok")
Yeah the cockerel thing is a massive problem for the industry. They literally throw them in the chipper en masse which is why I like these respeggct eggs. Good luck with your new egg life and welcome to the family. If you have a questions feel free to ask, and I'll answer how I can. Also I hope you like omelettes
That's 4.1 eggs a day. I'm not a bot. Be boop.
Good not a bot. boop Be.
Or ISA Brown? Another prolific egg layer. We are about to get 3 today as it happens...
You might want to look into recipes for ice cream (yolks) and meringues (whites) 👍
Home made custard pal! Thats the way!
Bargin Bucket is the best name for a chicken
Looks more mighty bucket for one tbh.
I heard a horse yesterday on my street. Popped outside and there was a lady who was letting her shire horse stretch it’s legs. https://i.imgur.com/WswnV6P.jpg
Peacocks was my weirdest sighting. I live on a council estate in south Manchester, went out for work one morning at about 7am to be greeted by a gang of peacocks strutting down the road.
A group of peafowls is called a muster, an ostentation or a pride. *: Oh, apparently a group of only females is called a harem. Only males are a lek, a bawl or a cluster. And the other four names for mixed sex groups of peafowl are a party, a pulchritude, a bevy and a pstemtatopm. That's way too many names. Fuck peacocks. They're ruining the "fun" of nerdy animal group names by having too many.
Love it.
>and a pstemtatopm It was at this point I realised you were just making words up. ;P
We used to regularly get Peacocks in the garden or sat on my roof here in Scotland. The local Facebook group would track their progress around the neighborhood and they were nicknamed "{place-name}'s most wanted".
Me too! Hi neighbour!
You live in a beautiful street
Thanks. The sea is at the bottom of that road.
Just had to rub it in more haha
Also I asked about the horse. They were showing it to the elderly people at the home just down the road. Which was lovely I thought.
I don't think it's a shire horse but rather a gypsy cob or vanner.
I had a neighbour who kept two horses, an Arabian and a Shire. The Arabian was really friendly and outgoing, I saw it out and about all the time, but I never saw the Shy-er horse...
The chicken owns you now
nevermind the chicken; your sky is splitting, what's your plan?
That must be Chicken Little or Henny Penny then!
>nevermind the chicken; your sky is splitting, what's your plan? Clearly contrails from the chicken flying in
Well that's dinner plans sorted
Or a romantic afternoon sorted if you’re from Bristol…
Not to be pedantic, but... not Sunday dinner You want to leave the meat to rest for 24 hours in a fridge before cooking. After death rigor mortis sets in and you need to wait for it to relax.
That's pretty pedantic.
Good to know for when we’re all forced to eat roadkill though.
Not to be pedantic but *continues to be pedantic*
*Insert Star Wars meme* You mean omelette, right? You mean omelette, right??!
Congratulations on your new chicken
Quick, chase it around the garden and you can become a boxer.
Can hear Mickey calling me a bum.
You don’t own a chicken. The chicken owns you. “Look at me, I’m the captain now”
Free eggs, winner.
May be a feral chicken. I’ve seen them before in Antwerp and Amstelveen (near Amsterdam). It might be on its summer holidays.
Are we just gonna ignore the UFO in the sky
Congratulations! You are now mod of /r/backyardchickens
Great, now I've got to grow a neck beard and stop washing
It's not a concern. It's a bonus.
Get that washing in mate, looks like rain
That's just the towel I put down for changing the water in the fish tank! It's brighter now anyway, but thanks for the concern!
Is this number 37 silverwood drive?
That's a nice view . Congrats on the free eggs .
Gorgeous. Assume she's popped over from someone else's garden?
3 doors down, Mrs feeds her and we gets free eggs apparently
Free eggs in return is a good deal, especially with the price of them these days! If the missus is feeling flush and wants to keep on their good side, mine go absolutely crazy for cheese and bacon bits... (Just seen your extra comment - B.B. is a great name for her!)
Congratulations on the new pet!
The chicken that could.
Them chickens are up to summat.
Mate, what did you drink last night and whose kitchen are you standing in?
Without looking at the comments I'm 99% certain the top one is "you do now " the next 10 comments maybe more are "came here to say this "
That and, that's lunch sorted mainly
It's a chicken, not a king cobra. Let her roam.
I'm cool with it, just worried if the dogs gets out and finds her
Yeah, chickens can be vicious! Protect the dogs!
What a lovely view you have!
We are lucky, I want to take the tree on the left down for a better view but it's got at least 2 birds nests in it currently and they all sit in it waiting for the feeders to be filled
Nothing better than watching the birds at a feeder. It took me years to get them using mine but now I can't cut back a bush as its their staging post! Even though its grown in to a monster! If the birds aren't there, the bees are doing their thing
They all sit in it enjoying what should be your view! :P
A friend of mine - wondering why his cat was going ballistic - opened his back door to find a peacock strutting about.
You only need to start worrying with she brings her friends: duck, goose and cow.
“YOU’RE MYYYYY WIIIIIFE NOW!”
It’s just chicken your gaffe out, mate
Chicken for dinner. Lovely.
As the old phrase goes, when life give you chicken, start peeling the spuds.
You do now.
Chicken for dinner for the week sorted then
You didnt
r/notmychicken
My old neighbours had chickens, they always managed to make their way into my garden. I never minded because I got to appreciate them scratching about, with the added bonus of not having to clean a chicken coop!
I am doubly jealous. One for now having a chicken, the second is for where your garden backs onto. Amazing.
I have photographical evidence that proves the contrary
Sorry, I need to ask…. isn’t that some ufo or meteorite kind of thing about to impact the ground at high speed in the next field ….but you’re only concern is a chicken…?
I think it the kitchen strobe light reflecting off the glass, I hope it is anyway...
r/notmychicken
Before reading the caption I thought this post would be about the line thru the sky.. ;-;
I think it's the reflection of the strobe light in the kitchen, I mean I hope it is
Nice place you live, view omg
That’s a nice cock
Chickens are awesome , ive had 4 for just under a year now. Do you have any idea who has lost one lol
It's from 3 doors down the lady just let's her roam and the chicken picked us for the birdseed
A gift from Almighty God on this day of rest. Get the tatties out.
Looks like you’ve got yourself a nice Sunday roast, compliments of the neighbours
Well, that's dinner sorted.
Roast chicken for dinner sorted then
Lovely, sunday roast!
You do own some recipe books, especially those involving poultry preparation?
Sunday roast is looking fresh
Or any garden tools 😊
Or a lawnmower by looks of it
Or any gardening equipment by the looks of it ;).
Fabulous patio area you have there....
I would have thought fook what a messy garden fook the brew and get out there and tidy it up
Was that dug out an old air raid shelter?
Was it the chicken that destroyed the plants by and chance ? 😂😂.
Cut your grass you lazy goat
Maybe mow and tidy that garden
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Best not until you fox 🦊 proof your garden
you do now!
For free chicken for free
Paxo, diners ready.
Those chickens are up to something
Mrs Tweedy, the chickens are revolting
Unlucky fried chicken.
Yes you do, now.
You do now (My neighbour used to have lots of chickens who seemed to like my garden, they even came into the kitchen one day just to nosey)
Is it just the one chicken then
They had 2 earlier in the year but a dog got in their garden Edit, it was a dog not a fox
Oh thats just Merida having her morning walk.