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Think I might get some 8)

Anyone keep them? is it easy?

we had turkeys ones for a while, then they got stolen one night.  didn't really rake much looking after but made a right old mess with their shit.

a mate has chickens in his back garden, he likes them.  i think you should do it.

Many people have chickens here and even driving down my road I have to be careful sometimes not to run them over. They seem dead easy to look after, they just sort of seem of be there.

They are and, once you have had fresh eggs, you notice the difference between them and the 'fresh' eggs you get from Sainsbury's. There is no way they are fresh!!

You'll need a good Chicken Coop to house them in and a safe environment at night for them.
Even if you've never seen a fox in you garden before,they will descend on it once you start
keeping hens.

One of my mum's friends has them, and as triseros says, the eggs are amazing. Always seem a bit more rich and yolky. They probably get fed better than even freerange jobbies.

I say go for it!

If you have a lawn it will probably end up as mud. Will you be squeamish when it's time to say bye bye birdy?

my sister and her fella have two, they're not producing eggs yet as they've only had them a few weeks. their dog is very interested in them, he sits outside the coup and stares :P

what is is with everyone sudden facination with chicken? im not putting the idea down, it just seems everyone is getting chickens all of a sudden. have i missed soemthing?

you've not heard about the golden egg then?

Have you got any chickens yet, Yeovil?

I have 3 chickens - Penny, Tikka and Noodle. I keep them in an Eglu, which is a moulded plastic nesting box with attached run. They are hilarious and great pets for the kids, plus they produce lovely eggs. Its true that they destroy lawns and flower borders if you let them out alone too long. As for hard to keep, they just need a daily top up of water and food and a weekly cleaning out. They need worming every couple of months and you have to keep an eye out for mites and 'grotty bottoms' as a sick chicken goes downhill very, very fast!

I'm done with chickens - our dog kills too many of them so now I will be mainly keeping Bees...

Bees are evil!!!

Don't put them in the chicken coop or they might escape

Put them on a lower shelf in the fridge yeovil,to reduce the risk of salmonella poisoning.

No, wasps are evil - bees are friendly.  Bee's will allow you to stroke them whilst collecting pollen - next time you see a Bee on a flower, try it. Wasp's however will sting you at any opportunity so never try to stroke one.

My neighbour had chickens, then came the foxes.
Chickens make a terrible sound when the fox is chasing them, and that last squel when his teeth goes in - nasty.

My chickens keep getting confused and worried by a local ginger cat. When ever its around and they are out in the garden they make a terrible racket and sometimes come and peck on the patio door to attract our attention.

Never kept them, but a few months back I wa camping on a farm site that let the chicken roam around.  Lovely animals, they came at sat right next to us every evening, one managed to get in to the tent. 

Taste great in a curry as well.

When I was little I was never allowed over the alloments by my house but some naughty kids fromover the road made me go over there with them and I got stung by a bee on the ear and it hurt ALOT - plus then I had to tell my mum the truth about where I had been as well!

Thats why bees are evil

although granted wasps are probably worserer

How do you know it was a bee that stung you?

Mummy, Mummy, the boys over in the allotment said I only had bee stings. ?

hahahahahahahahaha I set myself up for that one Neville!

It was a Bee I saw it

So the moral of the story is....don't let a wasp sit on your ear. If a bee settles in the aforementioned location, don't try and stroke it. If a chicken lands on your ear, make sure you are wearing ear-muffs or headphones in case a fox or ginger cat is in the vicinity ! In addendum, just wait 'til you get stung by a hornet ! Double ouch.

Do wasps sting?

         
  Gordon Bennett. You really ought to get out more Ben. Yes, wasps sting. And so do chickens, albeit not too seriously since the thickness of the beak compromises their ability to penetrate the skin.

People say snakes sting, but they don't they bite.

  You are quite correct in both respects. First they bite, next they swallow. Then comes the sting. But I don't really want to keep harping on about the ex-wife.

Now that, weirdly, I believe and yet I've never been bitten by a snake. Why don't I believe, why do a lot of people not believe that wasps sting?

Never heard of people not believing in wasp stings.

I got stung twice as a kid, now I shreek like a girl whenever one comes near me.
I was chased around the car park at work last week by a wasp.
They can smell fear.

  What gives me the impression that you might be a gay entomologist ?

A bee dies after stinging somebody, and so will only do so as a last resort or to protect the hive.

Wasp's however can sting to their hearts content and have no adverse affects therefore they are a tad more 'trigger happy. However even a wasp has the basic instinct that if it pisses a big animal of by stinging it, then there is a good chance that that big animal will try to kill it and so usually wont bother unless you really piss it off a bit.

   
  Not strictly true BR. Otherwise any bee-keeper would lose half the colony when collecting honey. A bee will only sting (and die) to protect itself or the queen.

Which is exactly what I said, is it not?

   
  Erm...no. By saying ''protect the hive'' implies that a bee will die to protect its colleagues. It won't. It will only sacrifice itself in the interests of self-preservation and allegiance to its queen.

Do the bees have a national anthem for the queen?

Beemian rhapsody?

Flight of the bumblebees

It's not really that clever, is it?

Honey, Honey ?

God save our Queen?

Bonkers by Dizzee Rascal

Anything by the police.