Author Topic: Does anyone own a chicken (or duck)  (Read 5396 times)

and the roosters will chase you and scratch you the moment you approach a hen, unless you're my grandma.
That's because your grandma is top chicken.
do not get a chicken. i've gotten sliced up many times from the razor sharp claws. you might think they're timid, but most arent
Birds in general can be pretty terrifying if you piss them off. I blame their dinosaur grandparents not raising them right.

I've eaten both chicken and duck before
Was it a Turducken

Raised two ducks from egghood because six year old me somehow caused the mom to fly away.

Years ago when I was living in a big house we had a family of chickens in our small wooden fence area, it was for a short period of time though but they were cute.

do not get a duck if you want:

- location it's in to smell nice
- clean water
- dry ground
- dry anything
- an animal that doesn't have solely liquid poo
- no loud quacking (if hen)
- no constant low-quacking (if drake)

ducks are the spawn of satan himself and should never be taken into your care unless absolutely necessary


I did have several ducks, but then a few died (sob) and we gave the rest to someone who had chickens and ducks both because they were hard to take care of.
They're neat, though. Picking them up is hard, they don't want to be picked up and are hard to catch anyways. They're not pets, even if they're not food (ours just laid eggs and then ran out of lifespan to live or got given to a better home with more ducks.)

Although picking them up as ducklings may be easier. We ordered them online and picked them up at the post office, and the box was going peepitypeepitypeep with very confused boxed ducklings. (Warning: If you mail order them, they might not survive the trip so be prepared for sad when opening box. It's completely legal and the box is marked "live cargo" so it's not just thrown around like a regular box.)

We had to put heated water bottles in the coop with them during the winter, too, by the way. I recommend doing lots of research before making decisions.