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Discussion in 'Midwest - USA (NE, KS, OK, MO, AR)' started by Jedi, Aug 8, 2010.

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  1. Jedi

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    #1 Jedi, Aug 8, 2010
    I posted this in "Silver" but now realize that posting in a regional section where there
    might actually be someone who KNOWS SOMETHING about chickens can help me out...
    Thanks for any help on this. Please don't take offense that I am "assuming" that
    folks in NE, KS, OK, MO, and AR will know about chickens (Mrs. Jedi asked me to add
    that part :)) - I just figured that folks there might know a tad more than folks here
    in Seattle :)

    Here's the post:

    Yes literally. Mrs. Jedi and I are tasked with taking care of a house while the
    family is away on vacation for a week. We had scant instructions, and they can't
    be reached as they are camping in some backwoods place with no cell phone service.

    We just got back from a VERY TRYING episode of trying to get 3 chickens into the
    bloody coop for the night. They can't be left out because of raccoons and other
    animals - but the only instruction the owner gave us is "make sure the chickens
    are in the coop by nightfall"

    THEY DIDN'T TELL US HOW!

    After a bloody hour chasing them around their pen in muck we FINALLY got
    them inside by both of us "ganging up" on them and making them head to the
    little ramp into the coop. But they time after time dashed UNDER the coop...
    and we'd then have to wait 5 minutes to let them come out and try again.

    We FINALLY got them into the stupid coop and latched the door.

    Does ANYONE here know ANYTHING about bloody CHICKENS? Is there some
    easier way to coax them into the coop? Don't say "just pick them up" HA! TRY IT
    SOMETIME if you think THAT'S easy....!!! Also, there's no water dish inside the
    coop (there IS food) - are they going to be OK all night each night with food but
    no water? The owner didn't have a dish in there - should we add one?

    All I know about chickens is I love to pick up Popeye's in the Ferrari.

    Anyone?
     
  2. agup48

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    #2 agup48, Aug 9, 2010
    Really Jedi, you were serious about posting this in the midwest section :D:D
     
  3. GuyIncognito

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    #3 GuyIncognito, Aug 9, 2010
    LOL! Not a bad assumption, though. Lots of chicken farmers, particularly in SW Mizzourah and Arkansas. That's what they do when not cooking meth :D
     
  4. jssans

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    #4 jssans, Aug 9, 2010
    I'm envisioning jedi as Stallone in RockyII.

    Rocky: Hey yo, Mick, what do I got to chase a chicken for?
    Mickey: First, because I said so. And second, is because chicken-chasing is how we used to train back in the old days. If you can catch this thing, you can catch greased lighting.
     
  5. slm

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    #5 slm, Aug 9, 2010
    I am not sure if we should be flattered or insulted. lol I would get whichever chickens go into the coop in and then shoot the rest for a nice dinner. :) But then again, I am originally from Detroit so not so well versed on such matters.

    May want to fire off a pm to chrisparrenzo. He has a small farm and an expert chicken farmer. :)
     
  6. Dave

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    #6 Dave, Aug 9, 2010
    If the owners have a plastic feed bucket that makes a sound when shaken with a little feed inside, that will usually do it.
     
  7. Dave

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    #7 Dave, Aug 9, 2010
    By the way, I'm originally a city boy from San Diego.
     
  8. champagne612

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    #8 champagne612, Aug 9, 2010
    Those chickens were just klucking with you. Show them the bucket of Popeye's :)
     
  9. agup48

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    #9 agup48, Aug 9, 2010
    :D

    I'm hungry now :eek:
     
  10. dasMafia

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    #10 dasMafia, Aug 16, 2010
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    if the feed bucket doesn't work....

    DISCLAIMER, my in-laws keep 20-30 chickens - mostly egg-laying hens - on their acreage just outside of town (6-acres, nice little spread)... that is the ONLY REASON I KNOW ANY OF THIS...

    chickens usually put themselves up into the coop on their own, they know what time they need to be there and as the sun goes down usually make their way up into the coop.

    whenever I have to go "put the chickens in" (like for instance, this week while the in-laws are in France and my wife is sick), they are already in the coop by the time I get there.

    if not... feed in a bucket almost always works.

    if both A and B fail... chicken soup and blame it on the coyotes.
     
  11. Steveny360

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    #11 Steveny360, Aug 16, 2010
    shoot them and after a few minutes they will stop running around. Place them in the coop or eat them and then replace them with new. Chickens are cheap and most have the same appearance.
     
  12. jmn

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    #12 jmn, Aug 16, 2010
    Wait. That is all you need to do. If they were still out, you didn't wait long enough. Once it is really getting dark, they will generally go in, unless somebody has scared the sh** out of them chasing them around. If they still won't go in and they are roosting elsewhere, they are stupid (even more so than the average chicken) and deserve to be eaten by racoons (or whatever). Ours always go in by the time it is dark out.
     

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