Do you kiss your chickens?

[windwalkingwolf]

I had to limb the lower branches of Spruce in my back yard, because several birds would fly up in there, and while I considered it good exercise to climb a tree every evening to get them down so they wouldn't be eaten by coons, there was a couple that would go up higher than it was safe for my weight. I started cutting branches off at 4 feet down, and kept going higher because I wanted to clean and landscape under the trees, AND chickens were still jumping up there. Now I think they're cut over 6' up. There's still the odd one that gets up there, but I'm not chasing them down anymore, now that I've managed to make my own tree-climbing efforts that much more difficult but as much as I love to spend time in a tree, spruce trees ain't it. I do not miss trying to get spruce resin out of my hair.

[SusanH]

WWW, You know you love your chickens when you get spruce resin in your hair from climbing trees to get them down! Not so off-topic after all.

[labradors]

Come on Canadians! Don't you know how to get a chicken out of a tree? You need a hockey stick :).

You place the bent end of the stick just a little higher than the branch that the hen is on and she will climb onto it and you can lower her down!!!! At least this is what my chicken-owning friend told me when she presented me with my very own hockey stick :).

Linda

[Happy]

So...has anybody else noticed that @Farrier1987 started all of this but hasn't really thrown his own lips into the conversation declaring to be a kisser or a non-kisser?

[windwalkingwolf]

So...has anybody else noticed that @Farrier1987 started all of this but hasn't really thrown his own lips into the conversation declaring to be a kisser or a non-kisser?

Yes I did. I didn't say anything though, because I wasn't sure if he was a closet chicken kisser, or had rampant cold sores, or maybe both. He's a strange guy who made his living clipping toenails, and pulls goat teats for fun and profit, and I didn't want to broach a potentially sensitive subject

[Killerbunny]

I caress my Tom turkeys heads. I have since learned what this means to a turkey.

[Jaye]

Ummm, sorry to be ignorant, but what exactly does that mean to a turkey?

[Killerbunny]

It's part of courtship. If you watch them the females start twining necks with the males and rubbing neck and head. BTW I spend far too much ime with my birds!

[WLLady]

So...has anybody else noticed that @Farrier1987 started all of this but hasn't really thrown his own lips into the conversation declaring to be a kisser or a non-kisser?

Oh he does. Absolutely. On the lips! And i can say this because he dragged me into this first....ha ha

[Farrier1987]

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Oh he does. Absolutely. On the lips! And i can say this because he dragged me into this first....ha ha
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I do not, that's a lie! I was worried about you maybe getting Herbies in your scientific zeal.

And you remind me of an old uncle of mine. Would make a loud rude noise with his nether regions, and declare "Speak again, oh lips that never told a lie!"