How to raise Backyard Chickens: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Rocks

some one ought to compile all these stories.

From: Straight <straight6@earthlink.net>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Rocks

The Barred Rocks I've had have always been like that. The old colloquial name is Grizzles. The hens are like a bunch of sociable old women, and not much fazes them. The roosters---well. They're delicious, and freeze well too.

Funniest thing I ever saw was the day I heard all this noise from them. Up in back of the garden the hens were all standing around in a bunch----and they had a cat cornered in a small shed! The cat was a wild one that lives around here, housecats abandoned several years ago, and it was scared for it's life! I stood there and laughed, and the minute it distracted the hens that cat was GONE!

Still laughing at remembering,

Diane S.

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From: sidesaddle5@yahoo.com

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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 3:55 PM

Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Rocks

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I have Barred Rocks--they seem quite hardy (mine free-range), and goodness knows they lay well (with virtually no change at all during the winter; the only extra light they've had is from the heat lamp on some really frigid nights). They are reasonably friendly--or at least they recognise that when I am carrying something it's worth coming at a dead run! (I didn't handle them as much as I probably should have as they grew up, so they aren't "cuddly.") One rooster was a bahstid and succumbed recently to, er, lead poisoning... But the other two have always been quite respectful.

Rhonda

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