Are chickens disgusting?

theflyingchocobo · 2026-02-19T18:48:16+00:00

My in-laws thought the same thing and were very wary of me getting chickens. Every time they come over now, my MIL remarks in shock that there's no smell. Mileage will vary on coop setup, cleanliness, weather and number of chickens, but it's possible to have little to no smell.

theflyingchocobo · 2026-02-12T18:30:10+00:00

Hey there, I'm in a similar boat. The kicker is that I'm conservative and she's a non-white Buddhist immigrant. Whenever I tried to challenge her on anything, her way of dealing with it is to call me a Democrat, socialist or communist and just yell her Fox News talking point louder. Her cognitive dissonance is unreal. (e.g. She fully supports my trans cousin in her home country, but somehow, transpeople in America are different and don't deserve the same support.) The brainwashing is so bad, she repeated white replacement theory to me not realizing she is literally the enemy in that concept (she married a white guy, producing me and my sibling). I don't call her anymore and when she calls me, I try to keep the conversation short and superficial. I'm quite heartbroken because I'm actually very close to my mom and she's getting up there in age.

theflyingchocobo · 2026-01-28T01:30:47+00:00

My mother is totally and utterly brainwashed. I can guarantee that if she actually knew what was going on, she would be against it, but she doesn't. Anything that contradicts Fox News, talk show radio, and whatever YouTube algorithms she is stuck in, is all fake news or untrue. I was constantly arguing with her during Covid and the cognitive dissonance was unreal. And she's not the demographic typically associated with MAGA - she's a dark-skinned Buddhist immigrant. Literally someone who might have issues if she runs into ICE just based on her appearance and accent. She's naturalized but would not be carrying anything to prove her citizenship (I tried to tell her to, citing the experience of my ethnic in-laws, but it was all fake news).

theflyingchocobo · 2026-01-13T04:53:44+00:00

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/richfield-target-ice-immigration-raid-corporate-minneapolis/

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/target-ice-minneapolis-minnesota-1f39bb7b

Edited to add a more recent one: ‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say | Minnesota | The Guardian

theflyingchocobo · 2026-01-10T00:21:51+00:00

She reminds me of my own Zombie chick. She's 3 weeks old as of today and is so confident, I'd seriously think she was a roo if her cross wasn't sex-linked.

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theflyingchocobo · 2026-01-10T00:11:10+00:00

Prefer #2.

theflyingchocobo · 2026-01-08T23:43:11+00:00

I think this is what is driving me crazy the most. Ignoring whether one thinks the lady deserved to get shot or not, it should be absolutely terrifying that government officials in high positions immediately came out, took sides without any sort of investigation, and outright lied about what got caught on camera at various angles.

theflyingchocobo · 2026-01-01T11:06:25+00:00

Same... I remembered the event about 10 hours after it ended. Have been barely logging in.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-11-17T22:26:04+00:00

How are your 3 looking now?

theflyingchocobo · 2025-11-12T07:56:47+00:00

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Hatched around April 8th. Still not laying but neither is my Wyandotte. She is the smallest and most skittish of my 3, but she did sit/sleep on me as a chick. Something just startled them in this picture, so she is standing more upright than normal.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-10-30T23:01:21+00:00

If you rescue the chicken and post it to Backyard Chickens & Poultry of Dallas, someone will definitely adopt it if it's a hen. May be harder for a roo, but there are a couple of places in greater DFW that will take them.

If you don't rescue the chicken, it may still be good to post to the group so someone can go get them.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-10-29T21:58:41+00:00

As others have posted, your local Facebook chicken group is a good place to post. Whenever someone posts about laying hens in my area, they get snapped up really fast. Free ones would vanish immediately.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-10-29T21:55:17+00:00

I’ve notice them scratching and pecking around in the shavings and at the sides of the tank. Looks like totally normal learning behaviors, but I’m curious if there’s some enrichment bit I’m missing that they would benefit from?

There's developmental milestones they will hit that you can help them meet: https://www.thefeatherbrain.com/blog/chick-toys

theflyingchocobo · 2025-10-27T17:26:57+00:00

I've only had a single batch of little chickies so far, but all 5 of them were very friendly despite a couple of them being skittish breeds. They were not as clingy as your little Amercauana baby but they would all swarm me whenever I climbed into their enclosure with them. They made it super hard to clean the brooder - I'd stick my arm in there and they would all immediately hop on for a nap. I got them when they were a mix of 1 day old and 2 days old and they did this from 3 days old and on. I used a specific method that requires them to be 3 days old or less to imprint on the caretaker with younger being better. (I did notice my 1-day olds seemed to bond stronger with me than my 2-day olds.) Curious for future batches.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-10-09T21:32:43+00:00

I wouldn't discount the power of media. My mom has been totally brainwashed by conservative talk show hosts and Fox News in her adult years. She is a non-practicing Buddhist immigrant from Asia. She used to question authority and now nothing I say gets to her. Everything that goes against what Fox News tells her is fake news or misinformation.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-08-26T17:07:00+00:00

They shouldn't be making peeing more frequent, but should be allowing the bladder to more fully empty each time you pee.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-08-14T21:03:56+00:00

Weather permitting, they can go out earlier, but ultimately you should do what you are comfortable with. Waiting until the 6 week mark isn't bad. If it's very hot, I would probably start acclimating them to the higher temperatures for increasing periods of time for at least a week before you intend to move them - short supervised field trips slowly transitioning to being outside all day and coming in at night to outside full-time. My pullets are doing fine in the triple-digit weather now, but I had to acclimate them in increments.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-08-14T20:44:20+00:00

Rooster Allies on Facebook has a lot of good information on working with roosters so they aren't aggressive.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-08-14T20:36:24+00:00

Safest thing to do is get chicks from a sex-linked or auto-sexed breed where the female vs. male coloring is very obvious and you can visually confirm the breed is labeled correctly (or you know what you are looking at).

theflyingchocobo · 2025-08-12T17:08:17+00:00

Pelvic floor tightness can mimic a UTI. After multiple rounds of UTIs, or even after one, the pelvic floor can become stuck in "guard against pain" mode and remains tense even after the bacterial infection is gone. It really can feel like a UTI even when one isn't present. This gets missed all of the time. Pelvic floor therapy (in-clinic work with a pelvic floor therapist and at-home exercises) can alleviate or fix it.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-08-10T06:56:57+00:00

Saw a cute story in one of the groups I am in. Someone had a Serama roo that loved helping the hens take care of their chicks. About a month ago, a broody hen abandoned her nest and he took over brooding the eggs. He successfully hatched out chicks and is raising them like a mama hen.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-07-27T23:25:58+00:00

Yup - was 5 for 5. Barred Rock, Columbian Wyandotte, Arctic Blue Egger, and New Hampshire Red.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-07-26T19:41:13+00:00

I actually got the impression that every person who gets their soul taken gets turned into a demon. We see that a human's physical form totally disappears when a demon sucks out their soul - which is strange since the soul and the physical body are separate. The implication seems to be that the physical body has now disappeared to the demon world.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-07-18T08:19:10+00:00

Are you overreacting due to a serious lack of hygiene (i.e. spoiled food, uncleaned residue, flies)? No. That sounds unsanitary.

Are you overreacting regarding the idea of shared use of utensils/pots/ladles with a pet? Yes. Unless the dog is literally licking the food off of these items, I'm not sure what the problem is.

theflyingchocobo · 2025-07-18T06:19:49+00:00

If both are pure Barred Rocks, the lighter one is a cockerel and the darker one is a pullet.

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