Feral chickens.
Feral roosters can be dangerous.
From: Lewis Bergman
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 11:16 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic
A half dozen checkens could forage the back yard of a 1/2 acre fine I think. I
have lived around them before, I just think most that are buying them have no
idea what they are getting into. I predict massive chicken flocks roaming the
streets in a few weeks...until they are made into chicken fajitas or road kill.
On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 11:00 AM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:
They forage for extra protein (bugs) or so I'm told. I presume if they
ranged a large enough area they could live on just forage, but wouldn't they be
leaner if they spent all day running around looking for seeds and bugs?
I do enjoy the politician analogy. IMO, the underlying drawback of
democratic processes is that you'll end up being led by people who honestly
believe they're better than everyone else. The person who is willing to stand
in front of a crowd of thousands and declare "vote for me because I am clearly
the best person for this job" is basically guaranteed to be a narcissist or an
idiot. You're probably better off with the narcissist, but sometimes you'll
get the idiot. It would be best of all if you can get a person who is at once
stable, ethical, and competent, but that's only going to happen 1% of the time.
The narcissists will lie to manipulate people and the idiots will promise the
impossible because they don't know better. Either way they'll say things
voters like better than the nuanced facts of real life.
I'd love some sort of meritocratic control mechanism built into the process,
but it's hard to imagine a way to prevent such a thing from being corrupted.
On 4/6/2020 11:34 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
I guess feeding them is cheap, literally “chicken feed”.
Maybe people see chickens pecking at the ground and assume they eat dirt.
Cracked corn is indeed cheap. Whenever I go to Farm&Fleet or RuralKing, they
have lots of bags of chicken feed, so chickens must be popular.
I remember when my daughter still lived with us, she decided she wanted to
raise some ducks. She literally mail ordered ducklings. I suspect most people
would buy chicks rather than have a rooster and raise their own. Even our
local pig farms are not typically farrow-to-finish, same with cows. Raising
the babies and then feeding them to slaughter tend to be separate specialties.
Some people say Mick Jagger reminds them of a rooster. I think politicians
are like roosters. Noisy, self absorbed, don’t produce any eggs, aren’t even
good eating, but you still need them.
From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com On Behalf Of Steven Kenney
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 9:58 AM
To: af mailto:af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic
They don't live that long too so you only get eggs for a year or so.. so
you need roosters and if you have roosters you can have fertilized eggs... and
loud and annoying noises ! We have rules in our town you can't have roosters
because the noise bothers neighbors. Texas on the other hand everyone lives
far apart :)
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From: "Jaime Solorza" <losguyswirel...@gmail.com>
To: "af" <af@af.afmug.com>
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020 10:53:31 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Texans begin hoarding chickens during pandemic
Yep...and worse...the smell of chicken shit....
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020, 10:52 PM Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com> wrote:
I wonder if they understand what it takes to raise a chicken so it will
lay eggs. Where are they going to house them, what are they going to feed them?
So Stupid.
On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 9:22 PM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
https://www.newsweek.com/texans-begin-hoarding-chickens-during-coronavirus-pandemic-1496226
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