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The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Revised: Everything you need to know. . . and didn't know you needed to know about backyard and urban chickens (The Chicken Whisperer's Guides)
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Chickens in some forms – roasted, for example – are perfectly acceptable to me, but look into their eyes while they are alive and bear witness to genuine, bottomless stupidity. They are the most horrifying and nightmarish creatures in this world.
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
Pecking Order:
Norwegian psychologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe studied in developing the "pecking order" principle that is commonly used to describe all kinds of groups. Schjelderup-Ebbe found that in any flock, one hen usually dominates all the others. This dominant hen can peck any other without being pecked in return. The second in the order can
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Daniel Boffeytheguardian.comTurkey mothers are wonderful parents: loving, protective and nurturing of their young.
However, look a little more closely and you’ll see that this tenderness hangs by a single thread. If a chick emits the distinctive “cheep-cheep” sound, the mother will care for it lovingly. But if the chick does not, the mother will ignore or even kill it!
The “che
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Later, confirming my hunch that she was an eccentric woman, Mrs. Martínez bought a parrot, which she named Carlos but insisted I refer to as Mr. Carlos. Sometimes I would purposely call him Carlos just to upset Mrs. Martínez. I was scared of this bird but still had to feed him. And as long as I did my chores, Mrs. Martínez didn’t seem to care if I
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