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Reality Check!
Lee G:
Last year my husband told me no more chicks in the basement...so I've moved them to the bedroom.
Lo and behold, suddenly the basement is just fine for the first few days, hehe.
Sharon Yorks:
Mike...anti-anthropomorphic ??? I don't do big words. What does that mean?
Jerry...You win!
Lee...I am SO going to remember that the next time my husband makes another comment about the birds in MY office. And I've got the perfect little cage to put a few in and know just where to put it in the bedroom ;) I really must meet you some day.
Susan Mouw:
--- Quote from: Sharon Yorks on April 27, 2014, 05:24:13 PM ---Mike...anti-anthropomorphic ??? I don't do big words. What does that mean?
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Interesting thread. Right now I don't have any chickens in the house (except the eggs I'm gathering to fire up the incubator this weekend), but I do have three dogs and a cat. Last spring, at one point, I had over 100 chicks inside...
Never thought of putting a furnace filter over the brooder (I use big plastic storage bins from WalMart) to cut down on the dust. What a great idea!
Anti-anthropomorphic. Well anthropomorphic is giving animals human like attitudes, emotions, traits, etc. Like when we call our dogs our "kids", and our chickens our "babies"...things like that. So anti-anthropomorphic would be against that, I take it.
Temple DaSilva:
Our study is where we hatch then brood chicks for a few weeks. I know... they are chickens and it is in the house but it makes it easier as far as temperature control in a New England winter. Plus, my husband just loves the whole hatching process so it's nice to have easy access to the incubator.
As for the basement, I do keep my show coops down there... and my birds in quarantine post-show... and then a grow-out space for chicks after all the show birds are long gone and everything is de-conned. But the basement kinda isn't "in the house"... right?
Plus, I thought you were never supposed to count your chickens... before or after they hatch! I'm all for keeping records but never a running total. ;)
Birdcrazy:
--- Quote from: Susan Mouw on January 26, 2016, 09:40:21 AM ---
Anti-anthropomorphic. Well anthropomorphic is giving animals human like attitudes, emotions, traits, etc. Like when we call our dogs our "kids", and our chickens our "babies"...things like that. So anti-anthropomorphic would be against that, I take it.
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Thanks Susan, so that is what that big word means! I've made it past 4 letter words and moved on but just not to gigantic words. I don't count my chickens either. People are always asking me how many I have, but I have no clue!
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