Re: Dancing Chicken Road Troupe

In article <3q14vbFbv9bjU4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > In article <3q0k1gFca2qpU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > katy <katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>diddy wrote:
> >>
> >>>in thread news:Omelet-369819.10102228092005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> >>>OmManiPadmeOmelet <Omelet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:
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> >>>>In article <Xns96DF587925557danny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> >>>>diddy <diddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>in thread news:3pvff6Fc82dgU3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: katy
> >>>>><katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:
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> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>diddy wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>in thread news:3pucv3Fc940gU2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: katy
> >>>>>>><katysails@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> whittled the following words:
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> >>>>>>>>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!
>
> But programmed to die....sad...(makes one hope some geneticist sin't
> sitting out there trying to figure out how to "time" human lifespan...)
>
> katy

<shiver>
Scary thought...
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Om.

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