[Maximo]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

My dentist's assistant, (who I see quite a bit of) has told me about her chicken adventure. She started with I think three, and her son built her a coop. It takes a long time before they lay eatable eggs and in the meantime, you have to spend a lot of money on food and antibiotics and all sorts of stuff. Then she got another hen and found out that they are very territorial and they pecked the new hen to death. I guess you have to get them all at the same time and one becomes the alpha and any new hen upsets the balance. Also, her dog killed another one. So far, the eggs are costing her about 200 dollars apiece. I haven't talked to her in the past few months, but last time I talked to her she wasn't as enthusiastic as she once was. If you had your own yard and the chickens could be "free range", I say go for it, if you have to hide them, I think you'll end up regretting it. Are you sure you just don't want to have a baby? You won't have time for anything else. Lol, it sounds like you internal clock is insisting on a bird.

I want chickens, but when dad told me they do this to each other, and I read here about Michele's experience, it turned me off.