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snoodog  ·  2680 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 26, 2017

In the future would not recommend naming chickens. Just setting yourself up for disappointment





lm  ·  2680 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, I suppose. They're half pets, half laying birds; I don't think my wife could stomach eating them.

ButterflyEffect  ·  2680 days ago  ·  link  ·  

...go on...

OftenBen  ·  2680 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Personal experience, my parents got four birds, named them Eggs, Bacon, Toast and Jam.

Within the first six months a fox or racoon had taken Eggs, and my mom went out to the coop one day to find that a hawk had killed Toast and dragged the body into the coop to eat it, in front of her friends.

We don't name chickens anymore.

snoodog  ·  2680 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Same deal first year we lost 3 chickens, 2 got taken out during the middle of the day by a racoon, one just up and died one morning and the chicken corpse got pecked a bunch. Never named them and glad I didnt, my wife would have been a lot more upset if they had names.