Re: Keeping chickens

From: E Gregory (uepmeg_at_email.unc.edu)
Date: 12/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:47:41 -0500

ex WGS Hamm wrote:

> "CaT" <Catman@postmaster.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:ucj8t0h179oj3ft29b147115evvstr4dc7@4ax.com...
>
>>Normally I would not reply to a prat like you but I'll have you know
>>my chickens are very well looked after. However the reality is that
>>they do have a shorter life than say our cats, they are more prone to
>>disease and like it or not you are quite likely to loose a few.
>
> Well *you* might lose a few. I don't lose many and I have a lot more than
> you do. As to lifespan, tell me then, what is the lifespan for a chicken?
> FYI I have just lost a turkey who was 12 years old. I have had chickens
> live until they were 9 and I believe the record was 21 for a bantam. So just
> because yours don't live long, don't assume that everyone elses die young
> also.
>
>
>>It is
>>important to take this into account especially with children. I have
>>lost one cat in 10 years and it upset the whole family. It was buried
>>in the garden. When the chickens died they get put into the dustbin.
>>Thats life.
>
> It may be your life to love your cats more than your chickens but again it
> isn't the same for everyone. I have to think then that because you have no
> regard for your chickens, they get the bare minimum requirements. After all
> it doesn't matter if they die.
>
>
>>BTW - With YOUR attitude I would not want any of your Cochins anyway.
>
> At least we are in agreement on that then.
>
>

ok I was suspecting that you might be a spammer, and now I'm convinced.
In your other post on the same day as this you wrote:

   "I was pondering this week about my hens. I am getting rid of a lot
of the
more ordinary stuff. Frankly I'm bored with pekins." (From post entitled
  "You don't *have* to be mad to keep poultry".)

Doesn't sound as though you care much for your hens if you can just get
rid of them on a whim like this, because you're bored with them! Goodbye.

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