Sorry your chickens died. Can I come over for dinner?

He's two. Tell him they flew away.

Was it really someone not raccoons?

Sufiya Zinobia strikes again!

Luckily, BillyWitchDoctorDotCom deal mostly in chicken.

Mostly.

Lionel Mandrake: He and the toddler's mother, Ashley, now face the heart-wrenching task of having to tell their son what has happened.

Tell him the Chicken Faerie took them and give him a few quarters. Or tell him that they were so pretty God miracled them up to Heaven to make grandma happy.

There are times when lying is the right thing to do

Exactly. Kid is only 2. A small lie about a dead pet won't scar him nearly as much as "your chickens were murdered."

BronyMedic: Luckily, BillyWitchDoctorDotCom deal mostly in chicken.

Mostly.

Arise, chicken! Arise!

CruiserTwelve: [i162.photobucket.com image 400x363]

Duct tape.

Came for this... Carry on.....

Primary suspect:

1) The city's a bag of dicks. Give them a farking variance.

2) Since the city's a bag of dicks, they were going to have to get rid of the chickens anyway. Take your kid to visit the head of code enforcement and tell him, "This is the dick who took your chickens away."

doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

That or weasels.

LasersHurt:
Does it have to be chickens? Probably not. Did they notice that chickens worked, and decide to keep doing what was helping their son? Probably.

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." For anyone with autism, much less a 2-year-old, this is far more than a cliche.

I couldn't stop myself from laughing when I first read about this story just because of the seeming absurdity of it. Yeah I know, I'm an evil person, and it's a horrible thing to do but there it is.

Hey subby, these are tough times, how else am I supposed to feed my family?

staplermofo: Therapy chickens?
Jesus. I was going to strangle my nephew for having lights in his shoes and keeping the volume on on his ipad.

1. Who the hell finds their son is autistic and thinks "chickens!!! THAT'S the answer!!"??
2. Teeth marks? It's a raccoon. Get over it. Raccoons kills chickens, generally by decapitation. They've got freakishly dexterous hands and can open simple coop latches.
3. If he's autistic like you say, I don't think you're gonna "tell" him anything specific. He doesn't understand enough English to convey the concepts of them being dead and not knowing what did it. He might have a one-syllable repeated sound to refer to it, like "cla-cla" and all you can say back is "no, no more cla-cla". I don't know if that makes it easier or harder on either of you, but that's the reality of the situation.

Absolutely sick someone would do this

Would not be surprised it is some dick busybody who works with the local government. DeBary is mostly a small, rural-like town with not a lot of box-house type subdivisions. There should have been no problem with chickens on the property...outside of your normal dick busybody

You really need to ask why it's a code violation to keep chickens in a rural neighborhood?

Dog's barking aren't enough for you? You'd like to be roused awake at 5am by a horny cock?

Guess we know where this coont moved to.

Five minutes to the news segment on this...ooooooooohhh four minutes to the news segment on this.

/Syrup needs to be on the the table before the pancakes.

Mitch Taylor's Bro: wellreadneck: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

That or weasels.

Would a wild animal eat just the heads?

They go down through the neck and eat the rich vital organs.

Mitch Taylor's Bro: wellreadneck: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

That or weasels.

Would a wild animal eat just the heads?

Racoons aren't predators, they're assholes. Chickes are a treat, not a meal.

mooseyfate: Guess we know where this coont moved to.

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I thought that woman would be FARK's hero. She's a real life trollface.

Having my own kid who loves his chickens, I really feel for this family.




Fark whoever did this with a rusty chainsaw.

doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

Well, maybe the chickens were pretty old....

krug9999: Primary suspect:

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I lol'ed.

/one ticket, aisle seat please

I saw this on the local news, just depressing all around.

I've got a friend a couple blocks from downtown Orlando that's managed to keep several backyard chickens as pets for years. They're pretty awesome and harmless if properly cared for.

My money is on the parents. They probably killed all the chickens in some sick way to draw attention to their situation and to generate enough sympathy that the local authorities will give them an exemption.

Frowns on these shenanigans.

/Therapy Chickens would be a great grunge band

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You owe me a new keyboard sir.

wildcardjack: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

They found teeth marks.

Hey kid, WANNA BUY A CHICKEN??

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: doglover: wildcardjack: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

They found teeth marks.

It was obviously someone from the local government who had fashioned himself a raccoon-toothed knife blade.

Or an asshole neighbor with a pet gimp.

What a bunch of peckers.

Foxes, weasels and mink will kill every chicken in a henhouse.
Fur is murder.

"The necks of some of the carcases bore what looked to be teeth marks, a police report stated, though the family is convinced it was no animal attack...

...Aside from that, however, there are few leads. The Harts have never had any trouble with neighbours, they said, nor had they been threatened in the past.

There was no sign of a forced entry, police said, but the family observed two bricks and a piece of wood blocking the entrance to the coop."

I know this means I have no soul, but the first thing that came to mind was "what if the kid snuck out at night and did it?" I mean, two-year-old boys are prone to biting, and he is autistic...

doglover: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: doglover: wildcardjack: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

They found teeth marks.

It was obviously someone from the local government who had fashioned himself a raccoon-toothed knife blade.

Or an asshole neighbor with a pet gimp.

The city only knows about what is going on in your backyard if someone tells them. It was probably whichever neighbor called code enforcement. When they realized the autistic kid was going to keep his chickens, they probably flipped out. Also, the only reason it probably bothered the ass in the first place, was because they were some crank who was upset about their neighbor breaking a zoning rule, and felt that that somehow meant they and their property values were somehow being hurt, even if they could not exactly explain how.

BronyMedic: mooseyfate: Guess we know where this coont moved to.

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I thought that woman would be FARK's hero. She's a real life trollface.

Nah. Trolling is suppose to be funny and to targets that earn it. There is nothing funny about making wrecking the life of a six year old dying of a very painful disease.

My mother raised chickens in the 1950's & the same thing happened to hers. Weasels or raccoons, yes, will just chew their heads off and leave the bodies. That's why you bury your chicken wire fence below the surface of the ground and up and over the coop.

Dummies.

I had chickens as a kid. Every now and then a raccoon would find its way into the pen and kill one or two. Decapitations were typical, because they go for the throat and there's not much there on chickens. If someone was cutting the heads off, they wouldn't have left the fifth one alive.

Mitch Taylor's Bro: wellreadneck: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

That or weasels.

Would a wild animal eat just the heads?

Yes. Ask any wild animal: the head is the best part.

/Seriously: I've worked with raptors for years. When prey is abundant and easy to catch (like chickens are), a hawk will happily just take the heads off its prey and nothing else. Heads are their favorites.

CTZanderman: I had chickens as a kid. Every now and then a raccoon would find its way into the pen and kill one or two. Decapitations were typical, because they go for the throat and there's not much there on chickens. If someone was cutting the heads off, they wouldn't have left the fifth one alive.

Mom?

Mithraic_bullshiat: CTZanderman: I had chickens as a kid. Every now and then a raccoon would find its way into the pen and kill one or two. Decapitations were typical, because they go for the throat and there's not much there on chickens. If someone was cutting the heads off, they wouldn't have left the fifth one alive.

Mom?

Child?

As police investigated the slain fouls...

Kweens English!

I'm putting my money on some kind of weasel.

Had a mink break into our coop - what did it do? Go for the necks, and decapitate a bunch of the birds. But when they are done, they can't get the body out the way they came in. They can only eat so much meat but will kill EVERYTHING they can get their teeth on.

jtown: Since the city's a bag of dicks, they were going to have to get rid of the chickens anyway. Take your kid to visit the head of code enforcement and tell him, "This is the dick who took your chickens away."

I'd be OK with that, but the kid's preverbal, he can't possibly understand this.

thatboyoverthere: BronyMedic: mooseyfate: Guess we know where this coont moved to.

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I thought that woman would be FARK's hero. She's a real life trollface.

Nah. Trolling is suppose to be funny and to targets that earn it. There is nothing funny about making wrecking the life of a six year old dying of a very painful disease.

Your right; it's not funny. It's hilarious!

/ the pain of others amuses me. I keed, I keed.

// also; autism isn't fatal. It just means someone wasn't put together the same way as everyone else

Teufelaffe: Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: doglover: wildcardjack: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

They found teeth marks.

It was obviously someone from the local government who had fashioned himself a raccoon-toothed knife blade.

It's obvious that we're looking for a barefoot guy carrying a wolf.

or some pissed-off neighbor with a ferret.

The decapitated chicken heads have not yet all been recovered.



"I have no idea nothing's going on, right? I come home one day and the fence is empty, and I mean completely empty. They even took the chicken heads out of the coop. What kind of a sick biatch takes the CHICKEN HEADS out of the COOP?"

had98c: I couldn't stop myself from laughing when I first read about this story just because of the seeming absurdity of it. Yeah I know, I'm an evil person, and it's a horrible thing to do but there it is.

You work in code enforcement?

iheartscotch: thatboyoverthere: BronyMedic: mooseyfate: Guess we know where this coont moved to.

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I thought that woman would be FARK's hero. She's a real life trollface.

Nah. Trolling is suppose to be funny and to targets that earn it. There is nothing funny about making wrecking the life of a six year old dying of a very painful disease.

Your right; it's not funny. It's hilarious!

/ the pain of others amuses me. I keed, I keed.

// also; autism isn't fatal. It just means someone wasn't put together the same way as everyone else

So, take him/ her back apart and try to get it right next time.

DataShade: jtown: Since the city's a bag of dicks, they were going to have to get rid of the chickens anyway. Take your kid to visit the head of code enforcement and tell him, "This is the dick who took your chickens away."

I'd be OK with that, but the kid's preverbal, he can't possibly understand this.

It's not for the kid. It's to make the official feel like the dick s/he is.

thatboyoverthere: BronyMedic: mooseyfate: Guess we know where this coont moved to.

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I thought that woman would be FARK's hero. She's a real life trollface.

Nah. Trolling is suppose to be funny and to targets that earn it. There is nothing funny about making wrecking the life of a six year old dying of a very painful disease.

Yeah, you're right. God already trolled the hell out of that kid's chromosomes. No need to add insult to injury.

It was a neighbor. More than likely an adult neighbor who was butthurt about chicken noises. Either that, or there's a serial-killer pupating in a nearby hovel, getting his gumption all primed and ready to get his stab on.

FTA:

A fifth bird, a silky rooster, is in a bad way following the attack, having received cuts to his neck.

This gives reason not only that the attack was probably not human, but that if it was, there was a motive.

1. The rooster would be aggressive at fighting off a predator: hence the reason it survived. It also explains why the other chickens weren't mutilated further: the rooster probably chased off the predator.

2. That being said, if it was a human, it might have something to do with a rooster in a residential neighborhood. The feral one in my neighborhood liked to sound off anywhere from 3 to 5 AM on a daily basis. Fortunately, it wandered into my neighbor's yard and his dog got it. However, the dog ended up requiring stitches: roosters can be vicious especially when cornered.

Is it actually possible to diagnose autism in a two-year child ?
I thought the diagnoses wasn't possible before the age of three or four.

BronyMedic: thatboyoverthere: BronyMedic: mooseyfate: Guess we know where this coont moved to.

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I thought that woman would be FARK's hero. She's a real life trollface.

Nah. Trolling is suppose to be funny and to targets that earn it. There is nothing funny about making wrecking the life of a six year old dying of a very painful disease.

Yeah, you're right. God already trolled the hell out of that kid's chromosomes. No need to add insult to injury.

She's a human politics tab post. Poor thing.

ScreamingHangover: FTA:


A fifth bird, a silky rooster, is in a bad way following the attack, having received cuts to his neck.

This gives reason not only that the attack was probably not human, but that if it was, there was a motive.

1. The rooster would be aggressive at fighting off a predator: hence the reason it survived. It also explains why the other chickens weren't mutilated further: the rooster probably chased off the predator.

2. That being said, if it was a human, it might have something to do with a rooster in a residential neighborhood. The feral one in my neighborhood liked to sound off anywhere from 3 to 5 AM on a daily basis. Fortunately, it wandered into my neighbor's yard and his dog got it. However, the dog ended up requiring stitches: roosters can be vicious especially when cornered.

+1

ever seen roosters fight? they fight harder and dirtier than two evil biatches who hate eachother and want the same dick.

don't care if the farkers, furry or human took out the chooks for a laff, they still need to be taken out back and tuned up with a 4lb sledge to the knees and other major joints.

Those chickens were helping the poor lad.


/Fark'em in the arse with a sandpaper coverd bookshelf.

No Dumb and Dumber references yet? You people disappoint me.

That's some serial killer fuel right there.

Anyone remember that scene during the psychedelic boat ride in Willy Wonk and the Chocolate Factory?

So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?

wtfisthat: I call shenanigans on this. Why does it have to be chickens which are illegal for them to have? A dog or cat would serve the purpose much better. Also why are farm animals of that sort illegal in town?

They may have started out keeping chickens for the eggs. It is getting more popular in residential areas to keep chickens since they don't take up much room. I live out in the country and raise chickens, I've had more than a few requests to give/show people how to raise them. It's legal in the Madison, WI city limits as long as you get a permit, are not keeping roosters and follow some other basic guidelines. Not all cities are doing this and while most places have allowed in the past - it fell out of favor with the general population over the last few decades and was forgotten. Now there is a resurgences and the cities are either doing like Madison - allowing it with regulation or banning them since they don't want to bother with regulations to keep the neighbors who don't own chickens happy. I'm also seconding that this was likely an animal attack - those bastard can cut a head a clean off and sometimes they don't bother with body. Since the city is raising a stink, just tell the little boy some tale about them going to a farm since they didn't like living in the city. Then get him a different pet or take him out to country to see chickens, maybe find a local petting zoo that has chickens.

Wanted for questioning?

Active introvert: So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?

It is actually quite easy. You can buy eggs by the dozen at the grocery store. Just take them home, plant them, and pretty soon you will have chickens sprouting in your garden!

doglover: Mitch Taylor's Bro: wellreadneck: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

That or weasels.

Would a wild animal eat just the heads?

Racoons aren't predators, they're assholes. Chickes are a treat, not a meal.

Actually, raccoons can be a lot of fun to watch. No rabies up here in the population, either. Used to have one in the woods near my place, I used to give her treats when she came around as a kit, and even at 4 years later I could call her and she'd be coming up my back deck in 2 minutes flat. She'd climb up onto my lap and settle down with her treat (peanut butter sandwich, sometimes leftover chicken in it) and get her back scratched. Basically like a cat only friendlier. I always laugh at the Sears commercial- she would always want to move into the house but not a good idea- they don't make great housepets.

capt.hollister: Is it actually possible to diagnose autism in a two-year child ?
I thought the diagnoses wasn't possible before the age of three or four.

Yes. Earliest it's been diagnosed was I think 14 months, but CDC says it can be reliable by 2 years.

Mock26: Active introvert: So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?

It is actually quite easy. You can buy eggs by the dozen at the grocery store. Just take them home, plant them, and pretty soon you will have chickens sprouting in your garden!

Eggplants?

God I farkING HATE ICP!!!

Mock26: Active introvert: So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?

It is actually quite easy. You can buy eggs by the dozen at the grocery store. Just take them home, plant them, and pretty soon you will have chickens sprouting in your garden!

So if I plant the brown eggs will I get brown chickens?

Why tell the kid anything? They're chickens. Just get some more. Not like he'll notice.

mr smart the great: ever seen roosters fight? they fight harder and dirtier than two evil biatches who hate eachother and want the same dick.

I have a friend in NJ who had a large property in the woods back when there was a band lyme disease problem. He raised a mess of guinea hens and let them roam free which were taking care of the tick problem. However, they started disappearing due to the local population of chicken hawks and racoons. He acquired a pair of bantam roosters from the friend of a friend in the Puerto Rican community (aka: fighting cocks).

Problem solved: those things would chase off his 80 pound dogs off if they came anywhere near.

/Not to mention if it was a human that did it (which is improbable), the first thing they would have gone after is the d@mn rooster.

a) Why would the city official even bother? They got a two weeks notice, which hadn't run out yet. They'd simply have the sheriff come visit, if they didn't comply. So stop scapegoating someone out of misdirected rage, you nitwits.

b) It's probably an animal - birds come apart real easy at the neck, so it might look clean cut. After all, euthanizing a hurt bird is done by simply pulling the head off.

c) To those who don't get why zoning laws exist: the birds can't stay because 1) they're noisy and it's a residential area, 2) hygiene: you don't want farm animals in an area with many humans - remember the SARS scare? Yeah, we've gotta keep potential carriers away from populated areas.

d) If your child is important enough, then move to a place where you can have chickens in your backyard.
Yeah, it goes both ways, parents.

Aulus: OK, the parents need to get new chickens, reinforce the area in which they are kept and then get a doctor to sign off on the chickens being service animals and then tell the city council to go fark themselves.

Laws aren't like school rules. A doctor's note won't trump them.

HBK: Aulus: OK, the parents need to get new chickens, reinforce the area in which they are kept and then get a doctor to sign off on the chickens being service animals and then tell the city council to go fark themselves.

Laws aren't like school rules. A doctor's note won't trump them.

No? Weed in California and Colorado. I was actually in a store once and there was a woman with a "service" miniature horse. Not a great dane, an actual tiny farking horse.

I dont always fark with disabled people, but when I do, I like to smack the animal on the ass and yell YAAAAAAHHH!!!!

Badgers: /SHAAAAARON... I DID IT AGAIN...

Thank you. I can now go back to work!

Public Savant: a) Why would the city official even bother? They got a two weeks notice, which hadn't run out yet. They'd simply have the sheriff come visit, if they didn't comply. So stop scapegoating someone out of misdirected rage, you nitwits.

b) It's probably an animal - birds come apart real easy at the neck, so it might look clean cut. After all, euthanizing a hurt bird is done by simply pulling the head off.

c) To those who don't get why zoning laws exist: the birds can't stay because 1) they're noisy and it's a residential area, 2) hygiene: you don't want farm animals in an area with many humans - remember the SARS scare? Yeah, we've gotta keep potential carriers away from populated areas.

d) If your child is important enough, then move to a place where you can have chickens in your backyard.
Yeah, it goes both ways, parents.

Yeah, that shiat almost killed 1/1000th as many people as the flu does EVERY farkING YEAR. Yeah that was farking SCARY!

CALIFORNIA:
In 2003, Senate Bill (SB) 420 (Chapter 875, Statutes of 2003) was passed as an extension and clarification of Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. The Medical Marijuana Program, within CDPH, is administered through a patient's county of residence. Upon obtaining a recommendation from their physician for use of medicinal marijuana, patients and their primary caregivers may apply for and be issued, a Medical Marijuana Identification Card. Senate Bill 420 also required that the MMP be fully supported through the card application processing fees. Both the state and the counties have authority to cover their costs for the program through these application fees. From Link

COLORADO
"In November 2000, Coloradoans passed Amendment 20 establishing the Medical Marijuana Registry. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment maintains a confidential database of patients who have applied for a registry identification card for the medical use of marijuana. Registry identification cards are available to Colorado residents and valid only in Colorado." From Link.

There are laws allowing the use of medical marijuana in the states you listed. Additionally, I think the only ADA approved service animals are dogs and miniature horses. Apparently miniature horses are common "companion" animals and/or the miniature horse industry have a very powerful lobby.

I'd say it was a coyote.

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Wanted for questioning?

With eleven herbs and spices?

Genevieve Marie: HBK: There are laws allowing the use of medical marijuana in the states you listed. Additionally, I think the only ADA approved service animals are dogs and miniature horses. Apparently miniature horses are common "companion" animals and/or the miniature horse industry have a very powerful lobby.


They're easy to train and they live a lot longer than dogs. They're also really pretty tiny- easily smaller than say, a great dane or a mastiff. They make great service animals.

And you can ride them along the border, with your tweezers gleaming in the moonlighty night.

HBK: CALIFORNIA:
In 2003, Senate Bill (SB) 420 (Chapter 875, Statutes of 2003) was passed as an extension and clarification of Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. The Medical Marijuana Program, within CDPH, is administered through a patient's county of residence. Upon obtaining a recommendation from their physician for use of medicinal marijuana, patients and their primary caregivers may apply for and be issued, a Medical Marijuana Identification Card. Senate Bill 420 also required that the MMP be fully supported through the card application processing fees. Both the state and the counties have authority to cover their costs for the program through these application fees. From Link

COLORADO
"In November 2000, Coloradoans passed Amendment 20 establishing the Medical Marijuana Registry. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment maintains a confidential database of patients who have applied for a registry identification card for the medical use of marijuana. Registry identification cards are available to Colorado residents and valid only in Colorado." From Link.

There are laws allowing the use of medical marijuana in the states you listed. Additionally, I think the only ADA approved service animals are dogs and miniature horses. Apparently miniature horses are common "companion" animals and/or the miniature horse industry have a very powerful lobby.

OK you win, I don't do research. But I really don't get the horse thing. You can buy tiny tractors for about the same price and you don't have to pay anybody to take care of them when you aren't using them. Additionally horses are expensive, stupid, dangerous and delicate. Now that you cant make dog food out of them, they are filling up our land fills. We need that space for beaded leather vests and all the other weird shiat old crazy people that use horses for service animals leave behind when they die.

thisisarepeat: I really don't get the horse thing.

Bronies.

Well, I read the headline as ending, decapitated "him". He should find some solace in that. It could have been worse.

doglover: thisisarepeat: I really don't get the horse thing.

Bronies.

Whats farked up is...I almost began that post with "I'm a dog lover but..." I didnt want anybody to mistake it for "I'm doglover".

I guess you all know what I'm eating for dinner, then.

BoxOfBees: I guess you all know what I'm eating for dinner, then.

chickens, chicken heads, miniature horses or Bronies? I dont even remember what thread this is.

weasel or racoon....autistic kid!?

Active introvert: So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?



Where all the white chickens at?

ToxicMunkee: He's two. Tell him they flew away.

They grew up to become farking eagles or something. Because that's what chickens do. The chicken is just the caterpillar stage that metamorphosised into an eagle. Yep, I'm sure he'll understand.

Genevieve Marie: thisisarepeat: OK you win, I don't do research. But I really don't get the horse thing. You can buy tiny tractors for about the same price and you don't have to pay anybody to take care of them when you aren't using them. Additionally horses are expensive, stupid, dangerous and delicate.


Yea, none of that is true. Mini horses are easy to take care of and can be housebroken, they can live to be as old as 40 or 50 in some cases (which means all the specialized training they receive as service animals extends over a much longer time span as a working animal) and they're really easy to groom and care for.

They're also really fantastic as guides for the blind because horses sense danger really quickly, can see in the dark, and have extremely good peripheral vision.

You know why police still uses horses? Because they're really, really good at what they do.

Thumbelina (the worlds smallest and sweetest horse) is saddened by the original comment.

Harry_Seldon: Genevieve Marie: thisisarepeat: OK you win, I don't do research. But I really don't get the horse thing. You can buy tiny tractors for about the same price and you don't have to pay anybody to take care of them when you aren't using them. Additionally horses are expensive, stupid, dangerous and delicate.


Yea, none of that is true. Mini horses are easy to take care of and can be housebroken, they can live to be as old as 40 or 50 in some cases (which means all the specialized training they receive as service animals extends over a much longer time span as a working animal) and they're really easy to groom and care for.

They're also really fantastic as guides for the blind because horses sense danger really quickly, can see in the dark, and have extremely good peripheral vision.

You know why police still uses horses? Because they're really, really good at what they do.

Thumbelina (the worlds smallest and sweetest horse) is saddened by the original comment.

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Oh my god! That's so cute!

I can feel it on the wind....

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Genevieve Marie: thisisarepeat: OK you win, I don't do research. But I really don't get the horse thing. You can buy tiny tractors for about the same price and you don't have to pay anybody to take care of them when you aren't using them. Additionally horses are expensive, stupid, dangerous and delicate.


Yea, none of that is true. Mini horses are easy to take care of and can be housebroken, they can live to be as old as 40 or 50 in some cases (which means all the specialized training they receive as service animals extends over a much longer time span as a working animal) and they're really easy to groom and care for.

They're also really fantastic as guides for the blind because horses sense danger really quickly, can see in the dark, and have extremely good peripheral vision.

You know why police still uses horses? Because they're really, really good at what they do.

I thought it was because beings with too great a differential between IQs make poor companions.

doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

Doubtful; my dad raised chickens on his farm, and raccoons would sometimes raid the coop. They'd tear the birds to pieces, not just decapitate them. We also had weasels kill the chickens, but they'd just rip their throats out.

/dad has a raccoon and a weasel pelt dried on the wall now

Granted, I'm not a horse fan. I'm not sayin they arent better than most people, but that midget horse is pretty creepy lookin.

thisisarepeat: Genevieve Marie: thisisarepeat: OK you win, I don't do research. But I really don't get the horse thing. You can buy tiny tractors for about the same price and you don't have to pay anybody to take care of them when you aren't using them. Additionally horses are expensive, stupid, dangerous and delicate.


Yea, none of that is true. Mini horses are easy to take care of and can be housebroken, they can live to be as old as 40 or 50 in some cases (which means all the specialized training they receive as service animals extends over a much longer time span as a working animal) and they're really easy to groom and care for.

They're also really fantastic as guides for the blind because horses sense danger really quickly, can see in the dark, and have extremely good peripheral vision.

You know why police still uses horses? Because they're really, really good at what they do.



None of it? Can I rescue one down town for $35
C'mon, Gregor's miniature giraffe might be hell on rats but I doubt I would see them skittering about barns any time soon. And maybe you can kick the miniature ones around like a soccer ball, but the big ones ARE delicate. They trip once and its curtains. A dog can miss a jump and roll a dozen times and bounce up like they hope nobody saw it. Stupid is subjective, i've met some labs that were pretty damned retarded so I'll give you that one.

Weasels will behead chickens. I have lost chickens this way.

staplermofo: Therapy chickens?
Jesus. I was going to strangle my nephew for having lights in his shoes and keeping the volume on on his ipad.

/My first nephew/niece is being born this morning, so I'm getting a kick....

That said, he's a toddler. Autistic or not, just get him some new chickens. Are they sure this was a person doing the beheading and not an animal? I realize the corpses would look different, but unless they've had them examined by a trained eye, they might not know for sure.

octopied: staplermofo: Therapy chickens?
Jesus. I was going to strangle my nephew for having lights in his shoes and keeping the volume on on his ipad.

/My first nephew/niece is being born this morning, so I'm getting a kick....

That said, he's a toddler. Autistic or not, just get him some new chickens. Are they sure this was a person doing the beheading and not an animal? I realize the corpses would look different, but unless they've had them examined by a trained eye, they might not know for sure.

Teeth marks, missing heads.

Number of "wild animal slaughters chickens" stories I've heard: numerous
Number of "psycho beheads entire chicken coop" stories I've heard: nil

While it could have been a crazy neighbor, my money's on raccoons.

thisisarepeat: Public Savant:
c) To those who don't get why zoning laws exist: the birds can't stay because 1) they're noisy and it's a residential area, 2) hygiene: you don't want farm animals in an area with many humans - remember the SARS scare? Yeah, we've gotta keep potential carriers away from populated areas.

Yeah, that shiat almost killed 1/1000th as many people as the flu does EVERY farkING YEAR. Yeah that was farking SCARY!

Yes, so appreciate the zoning laws - they're obviously working.

wildcardjack: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

I've seen it before. At a farm I worked at there, we found litters of kittens missing their heads only.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: eraser8: He's young enough that he would probably not notice if they just replaced the chickens.

He's autistic. He wouldn't notice if they just superglued Peep heads on the chicken carcasses.

Pull your head out of your ass long enough to read an article and understand Autism isn't the same as mentally retarded

HBK: Aulus: OK, the parents need to get new chickens, reinforce the area in which they are kept and then get a doctor to sign off on the chickens being service animals and then tell the city council to go fark themselves.

Laws aren't like school rules. A doctor's note won't trump them.

Tell that to the medical marijuana people

Wouldn't put it past a human to do this, but I suspect animals. Probably unrelated, but I was bsing with an animal control officer a few years back. He told me of a case where cats were being found with their heads missing. They suspected the usual malicious monkeys in the area until they figured out it was actually snapping turtles. Cats would see one on the shoreline, go up to investigate, then that was all she wrote. Can't remember if they pieced together the markings around the neckline or someone observed it.

Just wanted to point out that animals don't block the entrance to the chicken coop.

Bathia_Mapes: Really? Why would you think that? I realize there are some real trolls on fark, but the majority of us were horrified and disgusted by this b*tches harassment of a dying child.

Look, I understand your argument. But.

As a counter, I submit to you the politics tab.

When I was 5 my family had chickens on a farm in Rural Ga. One by one and sometimes more than 1 at a time, they all died with their heads being removed. It was owls. Not saying this was not people, but owls definitely will do this.

ThatGuyGreg: 1. The kid is 2. Autistic or not, there is NO reason to tell the kid the truth. The chickens went to a farm. Whatever lie you were going to use in two weeks, use that.
2. I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

I agree 100%. Just get a couple of new chickens; He'll never know.

Florida su*ks

No mystery here -- the chickens were against code for where they were, which suggests that the neighbors called in the complaint because of noise, smell or a combination of the two. When the family didn't take the hint, the chickens had to go.

Hint to parents: just because your crotchfruit is autistic or retarded doesn't mean the world owes you anything. Least of all to bow down, get out of your way, and worship at the altar of your good parenting. This doubly applies to women in capri pants driving SUVs.

Active introvert: Mock26: Active introvert: So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?

It is actually quite easy. You can buy eggs by the dozen at the grocery store. Just take them home, plant them, and pretty soon you will have chickens sprouting in your garden!

So if I plant the brown eggs will I get brown chickens?

Yes but they will only lay heuvos rancheros.

Hawks and owls kill chickens all the time.

Hell, chickens will kill each other sometimes.

Then there are foxes, coyotes, dogs...

It's not like anyone would know about the code violation unless they were crowing it from the rooftop.

Chickens are farm animals. They don't make good pets. They smell, they make a lot of noise, and require a lot of space. They are not good animals for an urban area.

It's a shame though, that they found a way to get this kid to open up and they got slaughtered, but I don't think people did it.

Buried question:



Does Fark have a financial relationship with the Daily Mail? For years I've noticed US related articles linked to this foreign newspaper and wonder if it's a single Subby or something else. 


/pro capitalism, pro disclosure

G.I.R.B.: Now why do they have to have a rooster?

Eggs.


ಠ_ಠ

Roosters don't lay eggs, and chicken eggs are only good for eating in America when unfertilized.

chaddsfarkprefect: Buried question:



Does Fark have a financial relationship with the Daily Mail? For years I've noticed US related articles linked to this foreign newspaper and wonder if it's a single Subby or something else. 


/pro capitalism, pro disclosure

Fark was bought out years ago by news agencies. They put up links from sponsored websites all the time. Sponsored sites always get priority in the case of multiple submissions.

This is why we still get Gawker links, even though they just source shiat from other places.

sodomizer: No mystery here -- the chickens were against code for where they were, which suggests that the neighbors called in the complaint because of noise, smell or a combination of the two. When the family didn't take the hint, the chickens had to go.

Someone kills my pets or livestock, code violation or no, they'd best be very flexible.

Uhh, chickens are cheap. Just get him new ones. Do people really tell 2 year olds that thei pets died?

Oh, and their are many animals that will decapitate a chicken and leave the rest. We used to find our chickens like that sometimes (and we lived in the middle of nowhere, with no others around to get annoyed). It happens.

fluffy2097: Does Fark have a financial relationship with the Daily Mail? For years I've noticed US related articles linked to this foreign newspaper and wonder if it's a single Subby or something else.

/pro capitalism, pro disclosure

Fark was bought out years ago by news agencies. They put up links from sponsored websites all the time. Sponsored sites always get priority in the case of multiple submissions.

This is why we still get Gawker links, even though they just source shiat from other places.

Biatch about them. Mock them. Ridicule their bottom-feeding, muck-raking, degenerate pretense of journalism, and ridicule the flabby, naive, cow-hearted Englishwomen they pander to while you're at it. Companies that pay for advertising keep track of how their investment is coming along. Daily Mail doesn't just want page hits. They want good word of mouth, so if a Google search of "Daily+Mail+Fark" turns up pages of "Daily Mail sucks gleet from donkey dong!" they might take their business elsewhere.

I suspect that this is what happened to StrongBad. There was a steady swell of hate for the obligatory SBemail until every one of their threads was half full of bile and derision, and they dropped off the radar not long after.

Drew is entitled to make money, of course. As it is DM is the only paying sponsor that is a nuisance. If you don't like Smoking Gun, for example, you're free to skip it. The trouble with DM is that we end up having to comment on their worthless version of a genuine news item, which makes an intelligent discussion mighty difficult as most of the posters have been mislead as to what's going on. At most, Daily Mail links ought to be restricted to ironic Bat Baby and Christ-on-a-Tortilla type articles.

Now, time for peacocks.

fluffy2097: Chickens are farm animals. They don't make good pets. They smell, they make a lot of noise, and require a lot of space. They are not good animals for an urban area.



They aren't the best for tight areas, correct.

some can be noisy, but no worse than your stupid dog,or the idiot with the open pipes on his Harley/Camaro/Truck..

as for space and smell? 3 or 4 chicken need about 30 square feet total.

bborchar: Do people really tell 2 year olds that thei pets died?

I've noticed a lot of concern about that from various posters here. What's odd is that a lot of these people have been around 2-year-olds, at least enough to know that at age 2 a non-autistic child is tackling cognitive feats like repeating words, sorting colors, overcoming solipsism, and holding his wee-wee. A 2-year-old could throttle a kitten and be puzzled that kitty don't work no more (and then forget it ever existed a hour after Dad buries it). Deep understanding (and terror) of mortality is something that is a bit farther down the road for him, and something that farkers appear to be projecting on him.

Therapy chickens?? wtf?

Stop being cheap-ass parents and buy your kid a dog.

Chicken shiat stinks, if the parents weren't cleaning it up in a suburban area I'd have called code enforcement on them myself.

The cynic in me wonders if the parents didn't want to the chickens for their urban farming initiative or whatever and then just used their autistic son as a card to play against code enforcement. I'd also wonder if the parents did it themselves for sympathy. I'm curious as to why a neighbor would do this, the neighbors had won (assuming they were ones who called code enforcement). In two weeks the chickens would be gone or a massive fine would be dropped, mission accomplished. The neighbor doesn't really gain that much by sneaking in to kill the chickens, but lose if they were caught trespassing and chopping the head of chickens. So either the parents or an animal that kills for fun, cats come to mind. A feral or just a house cat that is let out at night.

jtown: ...
Take your kid to visit the head of code enforcement and tell him, "This is the dick who took your chickens away."

I'm picturing the mom then releasing a strap on her son's Hannibal Lecter moving dolly before screaming, "SIC 'EM JO-JU!" and the two-foot tall kid lunging over the desk at the guy's face

ShannonKW: bborchar: Do people really tell 2 year olds that thei pets died?

I've noticed a lot of concern about that from various posters here. What's odd is that a lot of these people have been around 2-year-olds, at least enough to know that at age 2 a non-autistic child is tackling cognitive feats like repeating words, sorting colors, overcoming solipsism, and holding his wee-wee. A 2-year-old could throttle a kitten and be puzzled that kitty don't work no more (and then forget it ever existed a hour after Dad buries it). Deep understanding (and terror) of mortality is something that is a bit farther down the road for him, and something that farkers appear to be projecting on him.

I have an ASD and when I was three my mom got me a rabbit that had bunnies shortly thereafter. I was playing with them in the sandbox one day and my younger sister came in and stomped the sandcastle flat while the bunnies were inside. not sure how many there were but I know it traumatized me and to this day whenever I bring it up her excuse was "well how was I supposed to know you put the bunnies in there?"

all kids have flushed a goldfish down the toilet at one point. Just say something about "gone to fishy heaven" and not "ZOMG YOUR CHICKENS WERE DECAPITATED THERE'S BLOOD EVERYWHERE, MEAN PEOPLE BE MEAN BUT NOT ME MOMMY WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU NEVER LEAVE ME WHY ARE YOU CRYING?"

href="http://www.fark.com/comments/7381388/80020446#c80020446" target="_blank">wildcardjack: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

I doubt wildlife would stop at the heads.

Raccoons are notorious for eating only the heads. People frequently enclose their chickens in "chicken wire" fences--great at keeping the bird in, but perfect holes for a raccoon to stick its hand through and grab a chicken-head nugget. If you build a coop, make sure you use hardware cloth.

Teufelaffe: Sometimes autistic kids just get attached to a type of animal, or even specific animals. My ex's son is 6 and autistic and pretty much hates almost all pets. Shrieks and cries when their dog (a min-pin/dachshund mix, so it's not exactly big and scary) gets close to him, won't get within 10 feet of the tortoise's terrarium, hides behind his nearest parent when house cats or kittens get near him at family gatherings at a relative's house. Then, a few weeks ago, they got two Cornish Rex kittens, and he freaking loves them. Plays with them whenever he can, cuddles with them when they're sleeping, gets upset sometimes when leaving the house because he remembers they can't come with, etc.

I really hope they can find a good replacement for the chickens for this kid.

I, too, have a kid on the autism spectrum in my life. His favorite creatures in the world are a ball python named Buckminster Fuller and a white dove called Mrs. Tesla. (He is extremely fond of science, even for a nine-year-old.) He'll talk and play with them for hours, lets nobody else help with their care and has to be checked each morning, lest he take Bucky to school with him and scare the bejesus out of his bitterly ophidiophobic teacher. He likes cats and will pet them, has been known to play fetch with our one black cat that does that and can be persuaded to tolerate dogs if they aren't noisy, but for years no animal in the world interested him at all. It was like they were just kind of there and why should he pay any attention, but then we took him to a rescue zoo and the keeper let him handle a snake and some birds and...yeah. That's his favorite kind of pet, avians and reptiles. He's even managed to train Mrs. Tesla to do a few appropriate dove/pigeon tricks.

The interesting thing is that his speech has become way more natural and his self-confidence has increased like crazy since we got him the dove and python. An adult at the pet store started screaming at someone else (the cashier wasn't giving her a return on stuff her dog chewed,) something that would normally freak him right out and trigger a meltdown that could tap him out for the entire day. (His disorder does NOT let him tolerate aggressive noise, to the point where he has to watch any movies and shows with gunshots, yelling or sudden bangs in them on silent with the subtitles so it doesn't trigger a breakdown. We adults have headphones for the TV and he's been able to read since he was 26 months old, so it's no big deal.) But since he had Bucky with him (he wanted to select a new hot rock and be certain Bucky liked it,) he actually turned, raised his voice a bit and said "Ma'am! You need to quiet down! Use your inside voice!" which, amusingly, shut the nasty lady up and made her storm out. He was shaking and looked white as a sheet, but he kept his composure for the first time in the presence of a screaming adult, just holding his ball python.

And then he explained that he didn't want Bucky to be scared, which just melted my heart.

Every autistic or on-the-spectrum kid who responds to an animal should be allowed to own one of that animal, even if you do have to search him for snakes every morning. A child who once couldn't handle eating at restaurants during the busy hours without muffling headphones now asks specifically to go to Sunday brunch with his grandmother and orders soup-and-salad, knowing that there's a particular kind of cracker they have in little packets is Mrs. Tesla's favorite. He even does chores for allowance so that he might better indulge, if not completely spoil his pets, and I've never seen a dove, which is essentially a high-class pigeon, eat so well and have so many luxuries.

TheHappyCanadian: [...] when I was three my mom got me a rabbit that had bunnies shortly thereafter. I was playing with them in the sandbox one day and my younger sister came in and stomped the sandcastle flat while the bunnies were inside.

3 != 2. Also, there's a great deal of difference between witnessing something terrible and being able to imagine how terrible something was from a spoken account. Also, I like the cut of your sister's jib.

Most small children are semi-amnesiac and at 2 their brains aren't close to wired together, even among normals. You could tell this kid you'd taken his mother's head off and he'd be worried about how he was going to get cookies now, and he'd be over it in a day (given an alternate cookie source). I bet you could slay a 2-year-old's mother in front of him and so long as you smiled and made it look like happy-fun-playtime he'd laugh and clap his hands and fingerpaint in her blood. Especially if you did it with muppets.

"Look, Jon-Jon, Grover is mad at mommy. Yes, she is a baaaad mommy and she's napping on the couch because she's all tired from banging the plumber, so Grover is gonna get the biiig knife and KILL MOMMY! YAY! Can you say, "Kill Mommy?"

"Kiew Mommy! YAY!"

"Yay! I knew you could! Now, be very quiet! This is a surprise! Grover holds the biiig knife in his mouf, and we walk on tippy-toe... 1... 2... 3... KILL MOMMY! RRRRAAAHHHH! HAHAHAHA! DIE SLUT WHORE, DIE! HAHAHAHA!"

"YAY! Kiew swut Mommy!" *squeal* *happy dance*

Teufelaffe: Sometimes autistic kids just get attached to a type of animal, or even specific animals. My ex's son is 6 and autistic and pretty much hates almost all pets. Shrieks and cries when their dog (a min-pin/dachshund mix, so it's not exactly big and scary) gets close to him, won't get within 10 feet of the tortoise's terrarium, hides behind his nearest parent when house cats or kittens get near him at family gatherings at a relative's house. Then, a few weeks ago, they got two Cornish Rex kittens, and he freaking loves them. Plays with them whenever he can, cuddles with them when they're sleeping, gets upset sometimes when leaving the house because he remembers they can't come with, etc.

Autistic kids are VERY particular about their likes and dislikes. The receptionist at my office has an autistic 8-year-old who's very, very attached to a stray dog they took in a few years ago. When he gets agitated, that dog is the only thing that can calm him down. The dog is getting pretty old, and they're looking to get him a trained service dog and hope he'll bond with it before the other dog dies, but there's no guarantee it will help.

I really hope they can find a good replacement for the chickens for this kid.

Me too. I can't even handle normal kids, I can't imagine what it must be like to raise an autistic one.

/oddly enough, some asshole murdered my (non-autistic) cousins' chickens years ago. What is it with the chicken-murdering?

fluffy2097: G.I.R.B.: Now why do they have to have a rooster?

Eggs.


ಠ_ಠ

Roosters don't lay eggs, and chicken eggs are only good for eating in America when unfertilized.

There is nothing wrong with eating fertilized eggs, just so long as a hen hasn't been setting on them for a while. (Although I don't see why balut couldn't be made with chicken instead of duck. Either way, ew.) A hen will lay eggs without a rooster, although a good rooster may at least attempt to protect his hens from weasels and raccoons. Wouldn't rely on a silkie to protect his flock, though. They're fun birds, but small.

That said, the eggs you get at the grocery store won't be fertilized.

I never understood people keeping chickens as pets. They are vermin - plain and simple. I've raised chickens. The fact that they lay eggs and are delicious when heated to an internal temperature of 170 degrees are the only reason that they shouldn't be driven extinct. Well, and their downy feathers make for nice pillows. So three reasons.
/vermin

Mock26: Active introvert: So get some more chickens. How hard is it to get a white chicken?

It is actually quite easy. You can buy eggs by the dozen at the grocery store. Just take them home, plant them, and pretty soon you will have chickens sprouting in your garden!

You have to make sure to plant the eggs pointy-side up, otherwise the chickens come out in China.

Canton: There is nothing wrong with eating fertilized eggs, just so long as a hen hasn't been setting on them for a while. (Although I don't see why balut couldn't be made with chicken instead of duck. Either way, ew.) A hen will lay eggs without a rooster, although a good rooster may at least attempt to protect his hens from weasels and raccoons. Wouldn't rely on a silkie to protect his flock, though. They're fun birds, but small.

From a more practical perspective, though, if you're keeping chickens in town, and you have a rooster, you're being a jerk about it. They're noisy, and getting woke up Every Farking Day By The Damn Illegal Neighbor Rooster would get old REALLY fast. They probably wouldn't have been reported to the city in the first place, if they didn't have a damn rooster.

That said, sounds more like a critter attack to me. And they should tell the kid "Sometimes animals like to eat chickens, just like people do, it's how life works", and move on. Turning it into a drama situation only makes it worse.

Canton: That said, the eggs you get at the grocery store won't be fertilized.

Challenge accepted.

Step 1: Move someplace that doesn't have asinine zoning laws.
Step 2: Get ducks instead. Much cooler than chickens and make great pets (have 11). When raised yourself from chicks, they are very docile and friendly. Mine will let you pick them up and pet them. They will eat right out of my hand. Chickens are just fugly. 
Step 3: Profit

Canton: fluffy2097: G.I.R.B.: Now why do they have to have a rooster?

Eggs.


ಠ_ಠ

Roosters don't lay eggs, and chicken eggs are only good for eating in America when unfertilized.

There is nothing wrong with eating fertilized eggs, just so long as a hen hasn't been setting on them for a while. (Although I don't see why balut couldn't be made with chicken instead of duck. Either way, ew.) A hen will lay eggs without a rooster, although a good rooster may at least attempt to protect his hens from weasels and raccoons. Wouldn't rely on a silkie to protect his flock, though. They're fun birds, but small.

That said, the eggs you get at the grocery store won't be fertilized.

Ducks lay eggs too, and they taste almost exactly like chicken eggs! I have a breed that lays more eggs than any domestic chicken. The Khaki Campbell will lay 300+ eggs per year, and are super friendly as pets. They rule.

I guess Dad figured out how to get rid of the chickens and avoid the fines.

Canton: here is nothing wrong with eating fertilized eggs, just so long as a hen hasn't been setting on them for a while.

I did specify "In America" for a reason. I'm well aware in other places eating chicken fetuses out of their shell is a delicacy. Or at least, tourists are told that so the locals can laugh at their ass.

djh0101010: Canton: There is nothing wrong with eating fertilized eggs, just so long as a hen hasn't been setting on them for a while. (Although I don't see why balut couldn't be made with chicken instead of duck. Either way, ew.) A hen will lay eggs without a rooster, although a good rooster may at least attempt to protect his hens from weasels and raccoons. Wouldn't rely on a silkie to protect his flock, though. They're fun birds, but small.

From a more practical perspective, though, if you're keeping chickens in town, and you have a rooster, you're being a jerk about it. They're noisy, and getting woke up Every Farking Day By The Damn Illegal Neighbor Rooster would get old REALLY fast. They probably wouldn't have been reported to the city in the first place, if they didn't have a damn rooster.

That said, sounds more like a critter attack to me. And they should tell the kid "Sometimes animals like to eat chickens, just like people do, it's how life works", and move on. Turning it into a drama situation only makes it worse.

Oh, I agree with you there. My parents' farm has four barns, and the one farthest from the house is the chicken coop. That is not by chance. Those birds are loud. That said, the fact that the rooster was the only one who survived the attack (if barely) suggests that it was indeed an animal attack. A human would have gone for the rooster first. Hmm....



On the other hand, a human might not have recognized a silkie as a rooster. They're a bit of an odd breed.

fluffy2097: Canton: here is nothing wrong with eating fertilized eggs, just so long as a hen hasn't been setting on them for a while.

I did specify "In America" for a reason. I'm well aware in other places eating chicken fetuses out of their shell is a delicacy. Or at least, tourists are told that so the locals can laugh at their ass.

Sorry about the misunderstanding there. That said, I grew up eating fertilized eggs. They were undeveloped -- no fetuses -- but when you have roosters in with your laying hens, eggs get fertilized. And the hens rarely have a desire to hatch them. Fertilized or not, eggs are perfectly good so long as there isn't a fetus in there. (Or if there is, if you're into that sort of thing.)

/American

Mitch Taylor's Bro: wellreadneck: doglover: Was it really someone not raccoons?

That or weasels.

Would a wild animal eat just the heads?

A lot of animals (raccoons and weasels notable among them) will, or at least will carry the heads off for no good reason.

If there was anything (a wire fence, for instance) that the chickens could poke their heads through, a fox would be another possibility. I used to know a guy who raised fancy chickens. He had to put mesh with very small openings over all his pen fences because one chicken would stick its head through the fence, a fox would bite it off, then the other chickens would stick their heads through the mesh to see what was going on, repeat, and so on through a dozen or more chickens. And since all it could get was the heads, the fox ate those.

Frankly, I'm inclined to suspect an animal because it was just the heads. A human would have been ... messier. A lot messier.

shokokuphoenix: My vote (my qualifications to vote: I am 5th generation Floridian and was born and raised in rural Central Florida, had chickens and other critters all my life, I've personally raised (from the eggs themselves in many cases) hundreds of chickens, ducks, geese, peacocks, turkeys, pheasants, quail, chukar, parrots, finches, cockatiels and pigeons in both Florida and Washington state, and I am a licensed falconer who's worked with plenty of hawks, falcons and owls) is that 100% this was the work of raccoons, and not a murder committed by a human.

Step up and collect your prize

I'm gonna go with the raccoon/weasel/mink theory. Not every meat-eating animal just kills one prey animal and eats it. Some are just dicks.


/also came for Mike the Headless Chicken

I'm autistic and I work with kids. I know how hard it is to get an autistic kid to open up and act social. If anyone hurt my cat I'd kill myself. I can relate bit time. (Although my cat would want to eat those chickens).

ScreamingHangover: FTA:


A fifth bird, a silky rooster, is in a bad way following the attack, having received cuts to his neck.

This gives reason not only that the attack was probably not human, but that if it was, there was a motive.

1. The rooster would be aggressive at fighting off a predator: hence the reason it survived. It also explains why the other chickens weren't mutilated further: the rooster probably chased off the predator.

2. That being said, if it was a human, it might have something to do with a rooster in a residential neighborhood. The feral one in my neighborhood liked to sound off anywhere from 3 to 5 AM on a daily basis. Fortunately, it wandered into my neighbor's yard and his dog got it. However, the dog ended up requiring stitches: roosters can be vicious especially when cornered.

Someone was tired of hearing the goddam thing every morning.

Then get some new chickens! Chickens all look alike, he won't tell the difference. All he wants to do is play with some damn birds anyway.

fusillade762: xanadian: fusillade762: Headless chickens can still make decent pets.

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wat?

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 - March 1947), also known as Miracle Mike,[1] was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been mostly cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish the facts of the story.

So I take it the chicken got a doctorate in Mormon theology...

Saruman_W: Chickens all look alike, he won't tell the difference

The same is true for other races too! I sure as shiat can't tell anyone who's not Caucasian apart.

/They look the same because you aren't paying attention
//Autistic kids pay attention to things like that
///He'd know

xanadian: fusillade762: xanadian: fusillade762: Headless chickens can still make decent pets.

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wat?

Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 - March 1947), also known as Miracle Mike,[1] was a Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been mostly cut off. Thought by many to be a hoax, the bird's owner took him to the University of Utah in Salt Lake City to establish the facts of the story.

Huh.

Can chickens vote Republican?

*ba dum bum bssh*

Canned chickens vote Republican.

fluffy2097: Saruman_W: Chickens all look alike, he won't tell the difference

The same is true for other races too! I sure as shiat can't tell anyone who's not Caucasian apart.

/They look the same because you aren't paying attention
//Autistic kids pay attention to things like that
///He'd know

Like I said, even if he could tell it's not like he's going to give a shiat. All he wants to do is play with some birds so just get some new ones.

I loved having chickens as pets. They are so interesting and so intelligent. Very clever and they get rid of ticks! We had five. They had their own coop and could wander around our yard, never caused any trouble. The cutest thing is that they would follow me around single file. Our yard consisted of a forest and lawn and was over and acre in size. They were hens, so there's no way they could have been a nuisance to our neighbors. But they all mysteriously died. It was the strangest thing. Five nights in a row, they died one by one. I felt so bad for my parents who had to bury them. They appeared as if they exploded according to my parents. We started locking the coop at night and there was wire all around it so no animal could get in. We never heard gunshots, so we don't know what happened. But it was pretty disturbing and very sad.

Unfortunately where we live now, I don't think you're allowed to have chickens. They are great for bug control, so it's a shame they don't allow them.

digitalrain: But what do you do if the animal that your child connects with is a shark? Seriously. My youngest son
is FASCINATED by sharks. Knows just about everything about them. Which ones are the most aggressive,
where the most shark attacks occur, which ones aren't aggressive at all, etc...

He started middle school this year and his science teacher actually majored in marine biology in college.
That class is Paul's favorite. The teacher lets him watch shark videos and stuff if he gets his work done,
talks to him about sharks - intelligently talks to him, not adult-to-kid condescendingly- and everything.
Paul absolutely loves it.

We have a dog and a cat as pets, and he likes them both well enough, but nowhere near as much as he
likes sharks.

Nurse sharks and other small species of shark can be kept as pets, albeit at great expense for the aquarium. A zoo membership where he can sponsor a shark and visit it often, especially if the staff can be persuaded to call the shark by a name of the child's choosing, will also do.