Re: Keeping chickens
From: Eileen Gregory (Eileen_Gregory_at_unc.edu)
Date: 12/30/04
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Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:05:18 -0500
E Gregory wrote:
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> ex WGS Hamm wrote:
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> > "CaT" <Catman@postmaster.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >>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.
My apologies to spammers everywhere, what I meant was Troll.
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