Tribe.net. Local Connections Davi >*<Leelyn http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/8bf49cda-6f84-4475-942d-d0961e593646 2009-07-03T10:19:26Z 2009-07-03T10:19:26Z

<div>Wow....I havent been around tribes for awhile and just kinda stumbled over a couple chicken admiring forums. <br/>This is very cool. <br/>I have been raising chickens since ..hmmm.....the last 6 years i think. Time really flies. haha <br/> <br/>I just got four new 8 wk olds. I didnt want to raise them from chicks this year,I didnt have time to do that this time around. <br/>I did enjoy tending some from chick stage before,they bond better i think <br/>. <br/>These four are very friendly so far,they are getting used to their new home and seem happy so far. <br/>If I can manage,I'll add some pics of my various chicken pets at some point. <br/> <br/>I just enjoy birds,and I wish I had the room and proper area for Turkeys,Ducks,Guinea fowl and Emus. lol <br/> <br/>I find chickens and ducks and such relaxing being around and watching and listening to them. idk why. <br/>Nice to find ya. Bye ~Davi</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

Davi >*&lt;Leelyn 2009-07-03T10:19:26Z ashley http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/31c6d6b3-68b8-4d8b-8f97-187b955af68f 2009-04-09T20:16:12Z 2008-09-01T21:15:01Z

<div>Hello all! <br/> <br/>I am brand new to this tribe, as of today! By way of introduction, I am an author, living just outside of Asheville, N.C.. I am in the process of authoring a series of books on what is loosely referred to as the "New Domesticity", or, all the ways people are re-localizing food and getting back into what, to many, are antiquated kitchen crafts. <br/> <br/>The first two books in the series are on "Raising Chickens" and "Canning &amp; Preserving." They are scheduled for release in March 2010 by Sterling Publishing, whose parent company is Barnes &amp; Noble. Part of the uniqueness of the books will be the inclusion of profiles of people nation-wide who are engaging in these activities, for profit or simply for fun. <br/> <br/>This e-mail is an attempt to network with all of you to seek out folks you may know who are currently raising chickens. I would love to include people across the country, covering a range of ages, professions and reasons for raising chickens. <br/> <br/>If you know of anyone who might be willing to share some information with me, and receive a free copy of the book in return, please let me know how I might reach them. They may want to know in advance that their name and photo will be included in the book. <br/> <br/>Hope you are all well and I look forward to hearing from you!! <br/> <br/>Be well, <br/>Ashley English</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 1 reply </div>

ashley 2008-09-01T21:15:01Z AMANDA http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/e4ddad64-1f1a-4649-9ac0-8fb90d27d604 2009-02-26T15:12:18Z 2009-02-26T15:12:18Z

<div>Hey tribes people, <br/>I am starting to try to make a little money with my eggs. I have been selling eggs for eating but am also getting into selling fertilized eggs. I have'nt hatched out any of the eggs myself yet but I have my Delawares set up in a "honeymoon" suite (2 roos to 9 hens). I hate the idea of selling eggs that I don't really know will hatch or not. Do any of you folks have any experience with this and how to know for sure?</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

AMANDA 2009-02-26T15:12:18Z NicoleRudolph http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/82557222-283a-462f-ad73-6164f2385202 2008-09-03T23:36:47Z 2006-07-06T18:37:49Z

<div>Hi! <br/> I'm Nicole, I have been raising chickens since I was 4 years old.. always for eggs and as pets.. I don't have chickens right now, but I have plenty of funny stories and advice if anyone is interested.. My favorites to raise were always Auracanas for their easter eggs and heartiness... They have always been very smart chickens, plus they were really good at scaring the cats and dogs away from them even as chicks. I also like to raise Barred Plymoth Rocks for their laying capabilities and just how sweet they are. The last chicken I had was a Barred Plymoth Rock named Matika.. she loved eating spiders and would great my car as I pulled up to the driveway. I am waitinhg to have a better housing situation before I try raising chickens again, but in the meantime I can always visit my sister's little red hen Valerie..</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 10 replies </div>

NicoleRudolph 2006-07-06T18:37:49Z bad-dawg http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/f35a6f50-a013-4d97-9999-fdeb283d88e0 2008-05-28T18:54:05Z 2008-05-28T18:51:03Z

<div>Too much time on his hands... <br/> <br/>http://www.bearsandbuds.com/March2008/Eggs08.asp</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 1 reply </div>

bad-dawg 2008-05-28T18:51:03Z girlmark http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/4d913486-153c-4830-b64f-0d2ad5206198 2008-02-23T23:05:42Z 2008-02-23T23:05:42Z

<div>I just had a bad experience with guinea fowl a few weeks ago- they were attacking our hens. I haven't seen chicken mating before, so I'd like to know if the nastiness we were seeing might have been mating behavior rather than some other form of aggression. <br/> <br/> We had a few that were raised from keets (the name for guinea chicks), and of course as is common with guineas (world's dumbest birds, I swear), a bunch immediately got eaten by dogs or something like that. We had two left and didn't do enough research to figure out that they were two lonely brothers - the voices of the males and females are different so we could have known this had we bothered to learn more about our pets. <br/> <br/>People generally get these noisy little birds for insect control- they normally roam your property and have been documented to eat LOTS of bugs including ticks. Ours, however, didn't really didn't want to leave the comfy chicken enclosure (which is huge, more like a big barnyard than a coop), and were certainly eating lots of seed (it was winter when I moved here) rather than bugs. I'm sure in the warm weather they'd go after bugs but the roommates said that even in insect season they still mostly stayed inside the enclosure where their tick-eating wasn't of all that much use to the humans. <br/> <br/>Well, these two boys started attacking the chickens this winter. I haven't seen ANY reference to that online - they're supposed to get along well with chickens and I've been around them+chickens in the past without seeing anything like that. Eventually they killed a hen (or she died of fright after hiding from them for a few days). At that point we started getting our chicken-butchering gear together, since the attacks were really brutal and they were apparently not useful insect control last summer. A few weeks later they started in on attacking the next lowest hen on the pecking order. We came home to find one of the guineas had the hen's comb in his beak and they were dragging her along the fence line, spattered in blood, etc. Lots of feather pulling had been done. We locked the guineas up for half a day in a stall, and the moment we let them out, they instantly rushed out past us and went after the same poor hen. <br/> <br/>Well, pets-to-dinner-in-30-minutes it was, and we butchered the poor things (they're delicious by the way, they're a pheasant relative and a bit gamier than chicken, but for a dark meat person like me, that's heaven). As we were giving a chicken-butchering lesson to each other, someone said 'what are those organs in there up against their back?' of course, they turned out to be testicles, then I went back to read about what might have been causing the behavior and figured out that these guys were guys. I wonder if the attacks on the hen were related to sex- I've heard that chicken mating is brutal but haven't lived with any roosters before, so I haven't seen all of this. It is by the way possible for guineas and chickens to have sterile offspring, and it looks REALLY funny: <br/>http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/Guineas/BRKGuinHybrid.html <br/> <br/>So, what do you think, folks- about the cause of the aggression? <br/> <br/>I haven't written off having guineas in the future, but I'm also surprised that they were so un-prone to wandering outside the coop (at least by the roommates' reports, I didn't see them in insect season myself). In the past the guineas I lived with ran around the whole 3-acre property and didn't disturb the plants, so they were pretty good bug control just as advertised. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

girlmark 2008-02-23T23:05:42Z Elinor http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/c0c5398e-c404-445d-a6c4-14643bb2b5c8 2007-10-23T00:44:46Z 2007-10-23T00:44:46Z

<div>I am collecting signatures for a very worthy grassroots cause. Californians for Humane Farms is trying to get a proposition on next year's ballot that would require farms in the state to have cages big enough for the animals to stand, sit and turn around. That is all this measure calls for. It has already passed in Arizona and Florida and is law in Oregon too. Let me know if you would like to sign my petition to give voters a chance to change this cruel farm practice. We need 650,000 signatures by Feb. 22, so please consider volunteering to gather signatures. The Web site is: humanecalifornia.org/. And if you know of events/venues that would be good for collecting signatures send them my way. <br/>Thanks, <br/>Elinor </div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

Elinor 2007-10-23T00:44:46Z Sweet_Flicka http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/f3d083c5-9aa7-4537-b210-6b1e3279453e 2007-02-19T20:47:30Z 2006-10-26T23:49:55Z

<div>My bantys are flying over the fence and wreaking havok in the neighborhood, and I guess I've decided they would prefer the indignity of having a wing clipped over being shut up 24/7. Have any of you done this? I did a little online research, quite horrified to find they could bleed to death from a bad clip! is this true?!?! <br/> <br/>Helpful hints, friendly warnings welcome! Thanks!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 3 replies </div>

Sweet_Flicka 2006-10-26T23:49:55Z Anne_of_Tilbury http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/adfa5e55-c369-4a0c-8825-46f15bb07770 2006-10-08T19:12:32Z 2005-10-02T22:00:06Z

<div>Hello all. I know this has been a very quiet "tribe", but I thought I'd try to wake it up. I've been lurking for awhile. I'm in Washington State, near Kingston almost at the end of the Kitsap Peninsula. I never planned to get into chickens, really, until I rescued a loose bird from a feed store parking lot two &amp; 1/2 years ago. I thought she was a Rhode Is. red...but she laid white eggs. I named her "Ginger" after the gal from "Chicken Run". <br/> <br/>There have been a lot of adventures and misfortunes since then. We moved up here from Central California (bleh) and I knew predators like coyotes would be a problem. What I didn't plan on was losing my girls to domestic dogs. Grrrrr! Those dogs have gone to that big kennel in the sky and will be killing no more chickens (&amp; ducks). It's a hobby for me, and they are pets as well as a source of food (eggs, no stew birds...I'm too soft). <br/> <br/>Now that Fall is upon us I'm slowly finishing up my hen house so I'll be able to move my little flock from the barn (with the watch horses: coyotes don't DARE try get past them) into their new maximum security facility. <br/> <br/>At present I have seven birds: two Auracanas (Josephine &amp; Lobelia), two Americaunas (Arra &amp; Bella...I can't tell them apart), a Silver Seabright rooster (Aethelred), a Gold Seabright hen (Emma), and a Moran/Penna de Senca cross (all glossy iridescent black: Keridwen). <br/> <br/>What motivated me to post is that my oldest girls have just started laying. Keridwen just started last week: dark red/brown eggs. Lobelia, the red-headed Auracana, laid her first today: green. These are my first eggs since a stray dog killed my last laying bird two months ago. We're back in business!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 1 reply </div>

Anne_of_Tilbury 2005-10-02T22:00:06Z jbardaville http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/6ee1f1d2-3f8a-4e7a-98a6-b74ac99c6b59 2006-07-06T18:27:21Z 2005-06-10T18:32:41Z

<div>For a hilarious account of cannibalistic chickens, check out www.gothtober.com, day one. Jolene vs. the cannibal chickens. No chickens were harmed in the making of this film, save the roasted one I bought for artistic reasons.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 2 replies </div>

jbardaville 2005-06-10T18:32:41Z aryana http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/774e9094-8294-4f8b-8e0c-aaaf7c263564 2006-01-03T11:24:40Z 2006-01-03T11:24:40Z

<div>since I am no longer a first hand chicken wrangler- I would like to pass on the moderation of this tribe... <br/> <br/>anyone interested in making it into more than it is now, lively and a chicken with three legs perhps;) <br/> <br/>Ary <br/> <br/>ps now we keep bees- yay honey!</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

aryana 2006-01-03T11:24:40Z aryana http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/2300e2e7-e4a0-418e-a130-a48f7eb681bd 2004-11-22T17:50:56Z 2004-11-22T17:50:56Z

<div>Hey peeps - to those who knew her and loved her- Racer the 7yr old chicken went off to the ranch in the sky a few days ago. To those that didn't know her, she was the gentle goofy footed americauna that was silver and black. <br/> <br/>It was a long battle, one that we thought was beat, she was recovering so nicely after her surgery. <br/> <br/>I am at home these days, and would love to have some visitors. The remaining 5 girls would also like some new faces to sqwaak at! Ping me if you'd like to visit chicken ranch! <br/> <br/>The new winter coats are coming in! All except little white are looking half plucked, with fuzzy baby feathers poking out. <br/> <br/>Aryana</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

aryana 2004-11-22T17:50:56Z aryana http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/5070af3b-642c-4bf1-9ed0-0aeb83fac3e9 2004-04-10T07:30:50Z 2004-04-10T07:30:50Z

<div>this is a funny tribe - squaaak! <br/> <br/>I am so overworked right now! <br/>But Ian waters the garden and helps feed the chckens - so life is cool. <br/> <br/>I am getting set fo the May 1st party! I am getting DJ material - any downtemo &amp; dub DJ's here speak up! <br/> <br/>Yawn, so tonight's bedtime story is the saga of little sneezy sneezy poop poop - the wheezing chicken. <br/> <br/>There was a knock on the door, late one evening, and <br/>a woman, with a question on her mind... <br/> <br/>She said "have you lost your chicken?" I just have to ask, <br/>because I found this chicken in my yard you see. <br/>And so she went around the neighboorhood - asking for the owner. <br/> <br/>Well, being somewhat softhearted-I mentioned tthat if the owner did not step forth we would have her in witth our girls. <br/> <br/>However- the time came when the chicken came to our house, and this hen, called Henny Penny - would strive to the top of each persons head. Throughout the 1/2 hur adoption meeting - she stood on each of our heads, in turn. <br/> <br/>Ok - so then we notice a cough, a snuffle, &amp; sneeze. Kind of random, somewhat exressive. I don't want our girls to catch it. And we have no idea what it is. I say no way we can let her OUTside ( because in fact - she was in our living room in a large cage ) so we have to keep her in, and so we did for a week. (sigh). <br/> <br/>That's where te name sneezy sneezy pooop poop comes in - the poor dear never got better and I gave her back to the lady who gave her to a humane adoption agency (promise:) end of story. <br/> <br/>g'night kids. sqwaaaak! <br/> <br/>Aryana</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

aryana 2004-04-10T07:30:50Z aryana http://CWR.tribe.net/thread/66f4c755-836d-442f-8bfb-adb3ba3ad1c3 2004-02-05T19:18:07Z 2004-02-05T19:18:07Z

<div>the girls are laying green eggs again! We love amaracaunas! <br/> <br/>Thats about it - the girls are jumping over the fences after my strawberries again - sigh - I have to wire up the gates. <br/> <br/>I am putting my old metal sculpture gates up - I will post a picture. <br/> <br/>thaaat's all for now. <br/> <br/>Welcome JB - this may be a quiet-y tribe - want to intro? <br/> <br/>I am aryana - and I have 6 chickens. I am not in therapy - these chix ARE my therapy;) nothin' quite like chasing a rowdy bunch of chickens around the yard for excercise! <br/> <br/>Aryana</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://CWR.tribe.net">Chicken Wranglers</a> - 0 replies </div>

aryana 2004-02-05T19:18:07Z