Don't Kick the Leg that Feeds You
My family and I have backyard chickens. With our homestead settled on 18 acres, they have plenty of room to free range. We have had roosters over the years. Usually, they start off pleasant, and sometimes they stay that way. Yet, at other times, they become mean for seemingly no good reason. We don't chase them or hurt them, and they have a good life. So why do they all of a sudden start attacking us? I have many young nieces and nephews who visit my property, as well as other guests at times with small children. When the roosters start attacking the young ones, we usually accelerate their path to chicken heaven. We often feed our chickens leftovers from the refrigerator when we know we won't be eating them ourselves. They also love to munch on apple cores, strawberry tops, and other parts of fruit we don't want to eat. Not long ago, I went to the yard with several treats from our refrigerator, and the chickens gobbled it up. Y...