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You know, other than the actual chickens.

hey good question I’m doing the same! what type of chickens are u doing that might help a bit. but if u don’t know yet its very simple. with chicks, they eat chick mash, they need a certain vitamin but only a pinch. they need food and water every day and they need to be taken out at least for a few mins. every day. they have a high fatality rate so if you get them when there young you need to get about 10-15. But with big chickens they eat whole and cracked corn, wheat, and oyster shells. theres a certain way to hold them too. you put your ring finger and your middle finger underneath them until you find there breast bone. then you hold the wings with you thumb and your pinkey fingers. that’s only if you want to show them in the fair though other wise just hold them however you want to just hold the wings. like the chicks they need food and water everyday. they need to be held for a while but they need there cage cleaned every 3-5 days or they will scratch at the ground and eat the poop they get diseases from that. its normall if you get 10-15 chicks and at least 5 or six of them die. like i said that’s all because of the fatality rate so if you want I’ll give you my email so you can know what birds are show quality and arn’t.
otherwise hope my answer helped!

Our beagle (Bagel) is 2 yrs old. We go to our farm about once a month and chickens run free there. There is no way to pen them up or keep them out of her sight. Also, putting her on a leash is not ideal as she loves to run free, and other than her chicken killing habit is a good girl.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this habit may be broken?

You’ll need to restrain the dog for at least the short term. There’s no other way to interrupt the behavior.

You can work on teaching Leave It, but casing and hunting is what the dog was bred to do. It’s going to take awhile to train a reliable enough Leave It to protect small game around the dog.She might never be reliable around chickens because she’s succeeded many many times in getting them.

Our beagle (Bagel) is 2 yrs old. We go to our farm about once a month and chickens run free there. There is no way to pen them up or keep them out of her sight. Also, putting her on a leash is not ideal as she loves to run free, and other than her chicken killing habit is a good girl.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how this habit may be broken?

You’ll need to restrain the dog for at least the short term. There’s no other way to interrupt the behavior.

You can work on teaching Leave It, but casing and hunting is what the dog was bred to do. It’s going to take awhile to train a reliable enough Leave It to protect small game around the dog.She might never be reliable around chickens because she’s succeeded many many times in getting them.

They cannot possibly be plucked by hand like in the old farm days, so these must be a system.
It is ridiculous that there are so many ducks and chickens and geese and turkeys sold at all the supermarkets in the world.

here is a generalization of how it is done: http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/t0561e/T0561E03.htm
you can google: machine to pluck feathers

I have seen this comment many times in the answers justifying Koreans eating dog. My response has always been, "Dogs are pets, but pigs and chickens aren’t."

What do you think?

This question isn’t about judging Koreans who eat dog. I live in Korea and I will never eat dog, but those who choose to I have nothing against.
Many good answers here. I can’t decide so I’ll let Gaya decide in the voting. Thanks everyone.

There is no difference between eating dog and eating a cow or a pig. The dogs eaten are raised to be eaten and are not someones pet. People around the world eat many different kinds of meat. Pigs, although not as pleasing to the eye are said to be more intelligent than dogs.
I’m sure that these days many Koreans would prefer to eat dog rather than eat American beef.

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There are chickens and rabbits. 28 all together. And all together there are 76 feet. How many chickens are there and how many rabbits are there?

& how would I solve this? We can’t seem to figure it out.

x+y=28, chix+rabbits=28
2x+4y=76 chix feet+ rabbit feet=76

y=28-x
2x+4(28-x)=76

2x+112-4x=76

112-2x=76

112-76=2x

36=2x

x=18

and you know that y=28-x => y=28-18 => y=10
So 18 chix and 10 rabbits

I have a pet rabbit that I let run around in the backyard during the day. I am wondering if I start keeping a couple of chickens, whether I can keep them in a same enclosure.

yes you sure can,mine seem to enjoy eachothers company. If you just let you rabbit run the back yard,just let your chickens too,they are amazing little gardener’s. I let my 11 freerange they make no mess,and if by change they poop on the step,just stray if off with the hose. MY GRASS LOVES IT! all the grass by my step and walk way,still green and lush,as the other grass in now going to sleep. anyways don’t bother enclosing them. Just make sure you put your hens to bed at night,and in about 3 days they go ‘home’ on their own.

I have about 1/4 arcre of land, but just would like a few eggs per weeks for myself, is it Ok to keep just 1, 2 or even just 3 chickens?

It normally depends on how many people are in your household?

Hens are sociable creatures and so two would be a minimum, just for their own sanity if nothing else!

Two would produce approx 12 eggs a week or so, so work out how many eggs you go through for your number of people etc.

While you don’t need roosters for hens to lay eggs, some people say they provide an important role in the social structure of the flock, and if you don’t provide a rooster, one of the hens may stop laying, and start acting like one!

Personally I don’t agree as the hens will normally see the keeper as head of the flock – or top of the pecking order. And if you have close neighbours a rooster can be very annoying for them.

People do keep single chickens, but how happy can that be for them??

In Farmville, the chicken coop says you get different eggs if you have different colored chickens in there…how do you get a non-white chicken?

when people have given me the gift of a chicken, sometimes it is brown.

I’m looking for the name of the breed of chickens who have a very fluffy sort of down rather than typical feathers, and beautiful little fluff balls on top of their feet and heads. They may be an Asian breed, I’m not sure.

Thanks!

Silkies.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Silkies/BRKSilkies.html