Our main deal is pastured livestock. So we have beef cattle, pigs, turkeys, laying chickens, meat chickens, rabbit, lamb and ducks - egg-layer ducks.
I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which would mean that there were, in fact, eggs before there were chickens. Genius.
Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
A 'farm' today means 100,000 chickens in a space the size of a Motel 6 shower stall.
I began raising chickens primarily for their eggs, but over the years, I've also grown fond of caring for them and learning about their many different breeds and varieties.
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
I'm not counting any chickens.
The cows shorten the grass, and the chickens eat the fly larvae and sanitize the pastures. This is a symbiotic relation.
Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.
I grew up in the English countryside, raising ducks and chickens.
When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
I grew up in Hollywood in an apartment. Then in Tarzana, California, on a mini ranch where we owned horses and chickens.
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
Sins, like chickens, come home to roost.
My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!
