Comments on: Chookin

By: emoAmerica

emoAmerica — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:55:42 +0000

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:23:15 +0000

I feel like I’m the resident rescuer for our local feed store. I believe they treat their animals horribly, and I’ve tried to report them for it (to no avail). So far I’ve rescued 4 chickens, 2 doves, and 2 goslings from them, all of which truly needed rescuing. And I live in downtown Orlando for chrissakes, not on a farm! But nothing compares to taking an animal from a poor environment where it was merely “surviving”, giving it basic necessities, and watching it learn how to actually be an animal. My definition of animal cruelty is anything that deprives an animal of being able to fulfill its very basic natural instincts, like scratching and roosting and taking dust baths. I will just never understand how that kind of cruelty is so widespread and accepted..

By: Twwly

Twwly — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:57:43 +0000

Kate – no, he has not. I’m not surprised.

Brittany – so glad for you! It may take time, you just have to let them sort it out. Ours were beaten up solid for about two weeks and now have settled in.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:50:08 +0000

Update…our chickens came from the biggest chicken rescue in California history. They are now happy and safe in their new large chicken house until the other chicken girls get use to them and they become one of the group. And if the girls aren’t accepted then they get their own chicken house to themselves.

By: Cosleeper

Cosleeper — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:32:02 +0000

Wow,this is really interesting,I do find the idea of Puppers being chased by a chicken to be pretty funnyChickens are good animals. we should pay more attention to these animals.

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:33:14 +0000

Hazzah for chicken rescue! My Mom and I are driving to Vacaville California today to pick up a few chickens. A man bought a big piece of property up there and discovered a “mismanaged” chicken house there. Mismanaged as in the previous owner moved and left the chickens there probably to die. Although we wish we could take 20 or 200 chickens, we can only take 2 because we only have proper space to add 2 new chickens into our group of chicken gals. About five years ago we took in a couple chickens from an egg company who didn’t want to get with the new California state law on farm animal management that requires more space for all farm animals. The chickens we got were from the middle of a 10 chicken-stack of cages who were brown when we first saw them but after scrubbing their fellow chicken prisoner’s poop off of them they were white! We named them Betty and Veronica and loved walking around our property and we noticed they would admire their legs. Take a few steps and then look at one leg, then the other. They probably did this because they never saw their legs before! Their beaks were also cut so we made up in their chicken mythology that they wanted to look like Janis Dickenson and got their lips done (because the way their beaks healed they totally looked like fake human lips and it pains us that anymore would cut chicken beaks). Those chicken girls lived only a few years and then died but they lived in a chicken haven where they could come into the house and see what was for dinner or go sit on the couch and hunker down and watch TV with us.

By: Kate

Kate — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 21:30:01 +0000

I’m curious to know if the seller has responded to or even acknowledged your letter. I’m glad you have given them a new life.

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:48:50 +0000

Hee thanks for the update! I’m shocked at La Cochonne! I do find the idea of Puppers being chased by a chicken to be pretty funny. I’ve seen my cats and dogs chased by squirrels

By: Twwly

Twwly — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:35:56 +0000

David – yes, birds allowed to eat grass and bugs produce the most fantastic eggs.

Rebecca – I hazard to say “most”.

Priscillia – The french bulldog, La Cochonne attacked the chickens and then started chasing Amish buggies and actually getting under them. That was not acceptable. She also wouldn’t stay off the pastured poultry pens, and was stressing them out. We raise chickens, not pet puppies, so that was that.

Puppers (tiny 4lb poodle/hamster) has been beaten up by the chickens, but never injured one, and we are sharing custody of him with my mother at present. We are down to only one cat, NoNo Goo Eyes, white fluffy persian with two eyes (there was one who only had one eye). One goldfish is still alive, a chocolate oranda. Longest living fish we’ve had yet, despite all odds.

I think that covers all “pets”!

By: Priscilla

Priscilla — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:04:17 +0000

Aw, thank you for saving them. I am sure they wil have a good long run with you.

And I HAVE been wondering about the rest of your cast of non-human characters: your dogs and cats and goldfish and etc. Which dog ate the chickens?