A photo of a chick’s bottom
on Mar 27 in General by DanOli has been asking for up to date photos of the chicks. Well, I say chicks, but they are fast becoming fully fledged chickens. Sigh, they all grow up too fast.
So here they are in all their gawky adolescent glory.
They are currently living in our coal shed amongst all the gardening gear and rusty bikes. In just two weeks however they will be graduating to Chickentropolis. Which is probably a good job as they are starting to try and jump over the fire-guard that is currently penning them in.
One of the little buggers makes a break for it
Well some of them will be graduating anyway. At the beginning of the week one reveled himself to be male and so has “gone to live on another farm”. The process of sending him to live on the farm wasn’t as distressing as I’d feared, although I my technique may need a little refining as I’m pretty sure that their heads are meant to stay attached to their bodies.
I know, I know, but remember they are not pets. Yet again I quote my agricultural consultant: “If you’ve got livestock, you’ve got deadstock”.
I do regret it a little bit as it seems like a waste, I should have let him grow a bit and then I could have used him for meat. I was just a little worried I wouldn’t be able to face the gutting and plucking process, but I’m fairly convinced that should any more reveal themselves to be male then I’ll be up for the job.
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I always lose my head when I’m moving, it seems your cockerel was the same.
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If any if the remaining ones show a liking for Judy Garland or start soft furnishing the coal shed then I’d take a closer look at their wardrobe, any sign of size 11 slingbacks and padded bras is a dead giveaway that they are tranny chickens or living a lie.
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Wow, they DO grow up quickly!
How many do you have left?
Actually I’ve heard that chickens’ heads are attached to their bodies precariously, at best. Design flaw.
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SingleParentDad – It would appear so. It wasn’t very pleasant though.
Gary – Ah, you are confusing homosexuality for transexuality. I shall stick Becky on you if you’re not careful
Oli – I’ve got 8. I’m pretty sure one of them is a male as well, but I’m leaving it in peace for now.
Erin – Or a design feature, depending on your perspective. The head coming off certainly killed it quickly.
You could have gone the capon route:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon
JJ Daddy-O I’m pretty sure that is illegal in the UK. Certainly the chemical way of producing a capon is.
Chemical way? Don’t even want to know what that is.
Not sure why the other way might be illegal (don’t you have steers and geldings there?) unless the police have taken away everyone’s knives at this point and all you have left are sporks.
On closer examination I’ve discovered that capons are banned throughout europe on welfare grounds:
Capons
1.6 Caponisation is not permitted in the UK. The chemical caponisation of poultry is prohibited by EU legislation concerning the use of hormones in animals produced for food and applies in all Member States. The implementing legislation in the UK is The Animals and Animal Products
(Examination for Residue Limits) Regulations 1997. The Welfare of Livestock (Prohibited Operations) Regulations 1982 (Statutory Instrument No 1884) prohibits the surgical castration of poultry except in an emergency or by a veterinary surgeon when disease or injury requires it to be done. However, surgical castration is permitted elsewhere in the EU, so capons can be marketed under the Single Market rules. Therefore references to capons have, therefore, been retained for information on imported birds only.
“…prohibits the surgical castration of poultry except in an emergency…”
I am trying to conceive of what emergency would require the castration of a chicken. Anyone?
Couldnt you actually have sent it off to live on another farm? I.e. another farm where they will let it grow and then eat it?
You could have just let it go and then at least it would have provided food for a hungry fox.
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Sam – I looked into it, but no one really wants them. The fox idea crossed my mind, but It would have frozen to death first, which wouldn’t be nice.
I do regret it slightly, but my concern is that I don’t have space to have 9 adult sized birds, I have the space for four, which is how many I actually want.
Soooooo cute.
Which one are you gonna eat?
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Quite possibly, the best blog post title in the history of ever. Well done that man.
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xbox – I’m hoping not the white ones as they are the tamest.
Kevin – Why thank you sir.
i assumed your main purpose was to have eggs, yes? either way, please just tell me yes.
hurruummmpphhhhhh.
(said with the same look as Marge Simpson when Homer does something distateful)
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Dan, you MUST look at this website.
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org
This really happened, and Mike went on to fame and fortune, well, enough fortune to buy a new tractor for his owners. So with or without a head, a chicken is an amazing creature, yes?
I’m not sure I could take pictures of something I’m about to behead – I do admire your fortitude.
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I am confused whether chicken can be considered a pet or not… but we had chicken as pet when I was a kid. And I really felt bad when our “pet chicken” became chicken soup one day. My dad decided to slaughter it because it was already old. I remembered that I didn’t bother to eat lunch that day…
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You are a natural born killer Dan, I always knew it.
When I saw that post title, I thought maybe you’d finally got around to replacing your blog header (like you promised MONTHS ago). Sadly, it’s not the case… ;-)
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If you did cook them, you should wear a white suit and put them in a bucket.
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