#chickenkeeping

[ahedderick]

Fight and Flight

The new young roosters are making pests of themselves (they are roughly 'teenagers', so you can imagine). The older hens do not like them at ALL. Yesterday I was taking food to their trough, and I suddenly got hit in the back! Lightly! Followed by squawking and flapping as the old brown hen scrambled gracelessly up to perch on my shoulder. Apparently, a rooster was chasing her and she decided "on top of human" was the best place to hide. I looked at her (from a distance of about 4 inches). She was not budging. Shoulder is safe place. I sighed and let her eat some of the chickenfeed out of the scoop I was holding. Then set her down, ruffled but triumphant, inside the coop. We are overdue to butcher some roosters.

[rooftoprooster]

Settled In.....

By this time, I was quite settled into my life. I had mastered the delicate balancing act between studies, sports, and—perhaps the most fulfilling of all—chickenkeeping. It was eggs-traordinary. What had started as a humble duo had now grown into an entire feathery empire. I provided them with food, shelter, and love, and in return, they blessed me with nutritious eggs, occasional meat, and, of…

[outtaashes]

Chicken food Critics- Chipotle Burrito

https://youtube.com/shorts/z0vbs4tJ1KU The chickens are trying the Chipotle burrito bowl. Will they like it? #chicken #hen #backyardchickens #chickenkeeping #chickencoop #chickensofyoutube #petlover #texas #restaurant  @chipotle 

[ahedderick]

You clearly didn't need the phone; this is exquisite!

Hanging out outside to enjoy the weather this morning and one of my hens wanders by to give me the most judgmental stare. She moved on as soon as I pulled up the phone for a picture, so please enjoy this artistic rendering..

Rude..

[thegoodlittlechickens]

The cat has Ideas and Plans

[transmasc-rose]

i am so sorry for dragging you guys into the assassin’s creed hole to suffer with me 🤝🤝🤝

Its ok we are suffering here together 🤝🤝🤝as a Yugioh fan I am. Well versed in enjoying Extremely Mid Media. Its catnip to me. My favourite Final Fantasy game is the one known for being disappointing.

...but oh my god.

The characters have compelling concepts! And not a single thing is done about them! Every day I am sitting here thinking "do the writers even know what they did to Lucy" and given how much they change her every game, the answer is no, BUT I DO.

Which just makes me more invested. Unfortunately. I am looking at how the narrative treats her, and Clay, and Desmond, and I am chewing at the walls like "YOU HAD INTERESTING IDEAS. COME BACK HERE AND RESOLVE THEM."

But I know. I know. If they resolved them. They would be so terribly mid. They would have done deslucy space wedding. They would have made Clay a Daniel Cross 2.0.

But I can dream.

And more importantly, I can spend hours digging through game text and supplemental material to find evidence for my pet theories instead of being productive.

[fairyoctopus]

they keep releasing all these chickens and other fowl but my only ornithologist dragon is an ancient

[ahedderick]

Yes, OP, that's great work! Love the nestbox access. Your young ladies should be very happy there.

Thanks for tagging me, @gargelyfloof118

Long time Tumblr enjoyer, first time poster.

Here is a chicken coop I have been building. In true goblin fashion it is 90% made from pallet wood and reclaimed materials aka trinkets from my travels. See list below for examples

Palletwood- taken from local shipping company

Nails- removed from mallet Pallet wood, bent back to shape

Windows: made from a scrap of acrylic found in the dumpster at work

Vertical posts: dug out of the creek behind my house

Cain link fence for the run: also dug out of the creek

Concrete pavers: also also dug out if the creek

These pictures are from various points in the process and trust me, I have taken loads more if anyone is interested… I’m still working on a more permanent run but hopefully that will be done soon. I’m glad to finally have the chickens in it!

[dee-the-bee-barton]

Raw and Good Quotes, sourced to the best of my ability

"You'll find the universe a very small place when I'm angry with you" - Doctor who

"There is glitter in our veins that will outlast our bones" -Southern man who @.hayleyjclark talked to

"Millions of people lived satisfying, meaningful lives during the fall of the Roman Empire" Jonrog1

"It's ok to start over until you die man" Moodymoodimoode

"Probably 10,000 years ago. Maybe 100,000. The youngest human in a group went to the oldest one and said to the best of their ability "come see." And the adult went." @sanderssutudies

"they're going to bury you three feet deep, because you've only ever been half a man." @nomniacsdream's cat stole their sandwich

"The battlefield was a meadow first if you think about it" Tags from a post

"We no longer dare to imagine better worlds" i_zzzzzz about iced chai

"the structure rots and the plant reclaims. But i remember" @greelin

"Sorry buddy, I'm not god. Create your own hell." @olibavee's salmon shirt

"if i died and went to heaven and found out all my friends were in hell i would spit in god's face so i could join them" @gayarsonist

"I wanted rain and I thought the best way to do that was to make god cry" KilianExperience about his cursed meal.

"god gave me depression because if my ambitions went unchecked i would have bested him in hand to hand combat by age 16" @greimpossibooty

“You are something inhuman to me. you are a changeling. you are a brand wearing ill fitting human skin and i see its skeletal form shift below the surface” ~ mrspider

“The stench of hypocrisy oozes from your every pore” ~ Con O’Neill

“And when we finally kill the gods neither heaven nor hell will be waiting for them because they created those to imprison us” ~malewifecomabt

“The ghosts that inhabit this place are more alive than you’ll ever be” ~ a tag in one of Chickenkeeping’s posts. 

 “if the grand design is so fragile as to come unraveled by th severing of a single thread then maybe there is a better Destiny for those who hold tha sissors” ~ Grimeclown 

“your ancestors would find you incomprehensible and your descendants will despise your grave” ~ Anon message to gayarsonist 

“...Better make it count. Better make it hurt. Better kill me in one shot.” ~enodio_

“We rejoice because we are alive tonight, and we do not know what will come tomorrow.” ~ someone in ineed-moresleep’s DnD party.

“The ground is soft and I’m ready to dig” ~radioactivesupersonic

“Live with what makes you comfortable but know ultimately you’re not telling yourself the truth” ~ imanes

“Why would you blame the people reaching for heaven instead of the god that cursed them” ~ Hell-propaganda 

“One day, you will be face to face with whatever saw fit to let you exist in the universe, and you will have to justify the space you’ve filled.” ~curseworm

“If god wanted you to live he would not have created me” ~TF2

“The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil” ~omnybus

“Children inherit the legacy and trauma of violence from the adults waging war around them.” ~spaceshipoftheseus

“is the gardener who cultivates the vine in no way responsible for the fruit it bears? if I prune the tree and nourish the soil, can the crop be said to spring forth as an act of god? nay, say I, no act of god but an act of ME.” @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

“ideals are made of gold and light, but human lives are made of blood and tears, and spill with slippery ease; choose carefully what hills to build and die upon” @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

“I have no memory of happiness, not the slimmest reminder, even the faintest shadow of joy escapes me, slips out the windows and runs away with the wind and I, wretch that I am–I do not give chase. For there is naught left in my heart to spur on the chase.” @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

"violence for violence is the rule of beasts" Obama from someone's dreams

"to become god is the loneliest achievement of them all" Also Dream obama, twofingerswhiskey's mom's dream

"I beg to differ." "Then bed" An interaction on @bisexualdeanwinchester's blog, or not. I remember seeing it on a dean Winchester blog.

"You’re rearranging deck chairs on the titanic my friend" Justin McElroy

“The Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.” Camille Paglia

"Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something." Princess bride

"Can you feel your heart burning? Can you feel the struggle within? The fear within me is beyond anything that your soul can comprehend. You cannot cure me in any way that matters." The fucking MUSHROOM POST

“Draw a monster. Why is it a monster?” Janice Lee

"A year ago you didn’t know today" Unknown

"the anger in your heart warms you now but will leave you cold in your grave" a dream, an old woman?

"The Man who sleeps with a machete is a fool every night but one“ Justin McElroy

"That's a funny trick to play on god" Also McElroy brothers, I think.

"we deserve a soft epilogue" Fanfic, Steve rogers?

"I am a monument to all your sins." Halo

"Kill me and live with the memory. Then tell the stars you have won" Warrior cats

"Do you think God, too, stays in heaven in fear of what he has created?" Spy kids

"Only when Lions have Historians will Hunters cease to be heroes" Chinua Achebe

"take no shit, do no harm" Unknown

"Before you tell a tale of revenge, dig two graves" Said in many different iterations by many people

"God may judge you but his sins out number your own" @afabbaddel

"I'll do whatever you want" "Then perish" The obama hewwo rp

"If the world choses to be my enemy, I will fight just like I always have" Shadow the hedgehog

"I will face god and walk backwards into hell" Drill

"All knowledge is based on that which we cannot prove. Will you fight? Or will you perish like a dog" Mickey mouse comic edit.

"Pick a god and pray" Fire emblem awakening

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best is today." Greentext post

"You've got to make a statement. You've got to look inside yourself and say: 'what am I willing to put up with today?'" Erin, game grumps

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here" Shakespere

"you seem in an awful hurry to die" Warrior cats

"Either sonic is a god or could kill god and I do not care is there is a difference" Brian David Gilbert.

"Remember you can't save everyone." "Remember you have to try" Check boxes, I do not know the original posters

"In a hundred years they will cut down a tree with our initials carved into a growth ring and they'll wonder why the wood burns so warm" realaccountyeah, the cut first line is "nice spotify link"

"Was it not a bitch that nursed rome" Seeofreads after getting called a bitch at work.

"Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?" Brent spiner to wil weaton in star trek

"...And tell their ghosts we'd have loved them if they were here." @xeansicemane About dinosaurs. I think about this one a lot.

"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art to feel something" Jenna marbles making a seahorse jacket

"Just try and hunt me, your clown shoes will give you away from 50 yards" "brother you and I hail from the same circus" Anonymous and @firefox-official

"The English have taken enough from this world, I will not let them have my tongue as well." ao3 author's note about english not being their first language.

"I'm going to wake up and do good and so are you and no one gets to vote on that" Travis Mcelroy

"you, mortal beings, are the instruments by which the universe cares. if you choose to care, it cares. and if you don't, then it doesn't." Brennan lee mulligan

"And when we finally kill the gods neither hell nor heaven will be waiting to for them because they created those to imprison us." @malewifecombat, who burned their eggs

"You think I have a choice? I have to be real" jpeg in a Discord screenshot posted by @puyopuyo

"No fate is so immovable that we can not change it" @swords-n-spindles

"Do you remember how we used to run" logicalphathos about a person saying they are his reincarnated dog

"What if I am scared?" "Then do it scared" @yourgothmom and @glowcowboy

"Jingle your bells, little jester. without an audience to care about you, it's the closest you'll get to hearing applause" I saw it as a screenshot of a youtube comment

"Even fate picks its favourites" Megamind

"I don't want to be like this" "So don't be" "it's not that simple" "It really, really is." A comic, I can't find the original poster

"Baby every me is me, we are the mask and the wearer" @eligiblebastard I quote this a lot

"Jesus is my homeboy but God has a lot to answer for and my rebellion will continue until he does so." @hokuto-ju-no-ken

"When god has ceased to answer your prayers, it feels good to distance yourself from heaven" @ailthnight

[swaglet]

https://www.tumblr.com/donjuaninhell/777837274522058752/someone-really-needs-to-write-an-article-about-how

this is the funniest part honestly because there is literally a thing in chickenkeeping called chicken cannibalism that you have to watch out for where if they notice one of their flockmates has an open wound or just freshly laid an egg and has an open vent, they'll start pecking at any exposed skin on each other until it bleeds and then literally eat each other alive until they die. they really only do it if they're stressed or in a bad environment so thankfully we've never dealt with it but seriously that's a thing you have to worry about. chickens will eat anything including you if you let them. bertha likes to pick at my scabs. she will definitely eat a man's corpse if i feed it to her but i wouldn't do that because that's not nutritional or healthy -_-

[rooftoprooster]

Lessons Learned

Sure, chicken keeping is a tedious task and quite demanding, but it is just as rewarding. I have come a long way keeping chickens, and I can proudly say that it changed me for the better. It taught me hard work, patience, consistency and, perhaps most importantly, the value of routine and how to stick to it. All of these qualities have greatly helped me in other areas of life as well, including…

[outtaashes]

The Haunted Coop

It’s that time of year, the chickens have turned their coop into a haunted coop.

[mariacallous]

https://www.tumblr.com/kinka-juice/189048748519/kinka-juice-chickenkeeping-ok-like-kakapo-are

Funky formerly believed extinct borb is so borb-like!