Re: Dancing Chicken Road Troupe

In article <3q0k1gFca2qpU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> diddy wrote:
> > in thread news:Omelet-369819.10102228092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > OmManiPadmeOmelet <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:
> >
> >
> >>In article <Xns96DF587925557danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >> diddy <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>in thread news:3pvff6Fc82dgU3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: katy
> >>><katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>diddy wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>in thread news:3pucv3Fc940gU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: katy
> >>>>><katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I have discovered I have a knack for teaching chickens to do
> >>>>>>tricks.
> >>>>>> I can now slap my thigh while sitting and hens leap onto my lap
> >>>>>>and I've taught Fluff*** the Rood to leap for treats. Now all I
> >>>>>>have to do is set the whole thing to music, get an agent, and on
> >>>>>>the road we go.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>katy
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Oh that is so funny!
> >>>>>What kind are they?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>One followed me in the house today
> >>>>
> >>>>They're just black sex links....
> >>>>
> >>>>katy
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>I like my Black Sex links. It's the RIR's that I like the least of
> >>>any of them
> >>
> >>White leghorns are worse. ;-)
> >>
> >>Some of the most personable IMHO are turkens.
> >
> >
> > Really? Tell more about turkens.
> > I only commented about Katies "just" Black sex links. It was my
> > understanding that Black Sex links were some of the more productive brown
> > egg layers. They are stars.
> > Considering their RIR lineage, I'm surprised that my Black sex link hens
> > are as mellow as they are (The roos were pills)
> > I find them a very odd and wild looking bird, and more aloof than my Buff
> > Orpingtons and my Australorps. But hers obviously aren't aloof at all.
> > I find them very interesting to watch.
> > But I was puzzled at her commentary about being "just" black sex links, as
> > if it was a put down or something.
> > I love my big black sex link hens. The boyz hit the pot some time back.
> > So tell about turkens!
>
> I am not a fan of hybrid crosses. I prefer more natural breeding
> techniques and longer lived birds. Sex links were genetically
> created to have a 3 year life span....lay as much as possible and
> then into the stew pot. I think that's rather sad that an animal
> that does it's duty so well loses it's capacity to produce so early
> and becomes obsolete so quickly. Almost like being a throw-away
> bird. It's one of the reasons I'm going to straight breed next
> year...I prefer my animals to stay around for awhile after I become
> attached to them.
>
> katy

Funny you should say that...
4 out of 5 of my first set of red sex links died at exactly 4 years of
age, all within several days of each other. :-(
Great layers and personable birds too!
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson
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