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chicken phrases.. help please
Did someone say "chicken livered" before? I can't remember.
"Bantam" weight fighter?
"chicken skin" common name for the condition called keratosis pilaris--where you have rough bumps on the back of your arms etc.
Oops. I actually just found a really and truly bad slang term. First page of googling "chicken terms". I am not going to look at it. And I doubt it is medieval.
I had a good and obvious one last night--but I didn't write it down....Think! Think!
Yea! Harmony is back!
Cool huh?Sooo glad.
Hopefully that thunder is 'Ellie's' litte tangerine feet following along behind...
Grow did it we been talkin and she really likes me and i her and it just got better. She is a good friend and a kind hearted person THANKS GROW you made my day!!
Now a smiley with blue eyes and ruby lips is hard to turn down -lol!
Yay Harm and Grow! So glad you got things figured out and that you are coming back for more chick-chat!
Lazy_Ladies- I been on probation. No internet service since Friday morning when Ike hit Houston -not Clarkson KY!!
Glad your back Harmony.
Hooray! Harmony is back!! I'm so happy!!! (doin' the chicken happy dance)
Oh please Harmony, show us your baby dove and how it's growing...
Sorry I don't have any chicken phrases. I just had to post that I was happy...
Claire thank grow she did it with love and compassion sweetest person she is. I was amazed but she did it so give it up for her APLAUSE!!!!! Ellie flapin her ears mighty big breeze in here.
My batteries for my camera are in the charger but i will get up a pic and he has his eyes open and because you like him so i will call him Baby Claire or B.C. for short.
APPLAUSE FOR GROWNUT!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!! Thank you Grownut for bringing Harmony back into our flock. And Ellie too!
Awww, that is so sweet of you to give your dove a name like that! I am so touched! I hope he will grow up big and strong and be a great dove for you.
BTW, Marvin hasn't been back for a few days. I guess he found a pigeon flock to hang out with somewhere else. It was a treat to have him around while he lasted.
We know our Grow she is such a sweetie, as all of you are also. I love all of you and hope all is ok and over and we can move on. Toast to all. Cheers.
Now if we could just get Marvin back... I don't think I did that though.
Trust me i know pigeons and if marvin is doing what i think he/she is doing they have found a mate in the bird that visited marvin and soon there will be 2 little marvins.
Oh! I didn't realize he'd be doing that. (or she). I thought it was too late in the year. All the Canada geese have started to flock, and the starlings too. Migrations have begun. Do pigeons have babies all year round? If Marvin/Marva is doing that, will he/she bring the babies when they are all grown up to check out the yard and eat? That would be so cool!
hey you two, who SAYS we won't kill you both? did you make up with the Chicken Fairy too?
glad to have you back. missing the comaroderie...
Pigeons do mate year round i have to seperate mine to stop them during the winter. Will marvin come back with his brood if you put out feed theres a chance but it all according to if and, or, but when comes to these birds. Keep a watch and one day who knows good old marv just may show up.
I guess they do it to keep warm! LOL!!!
TF, don't go making threatening statements or you'll throw it all out of kilter again!!
What the heck is comaroderie? Is that when people in comas are getting along? I'm thinking that was supposed to be camaraderie....
I didn't eat supper yet, I'm being nit-picky.
"Comaroderie" is one of those code word we Americans use when Canadians are around. If you knew what it meant, you would cry.
Well. Hmpf. Nanny nanny poo poo. Oh right, you got mad at me the last time I said "poo" didn't you.
Yep. So mittelbrought to you!
central bread?
I've been in trouble with the Chicken Fairy for a while now and haven't been brazen enough to D-mail. Wish I knew why. TF- I'm not nearly as good eatin' as a hunky roo. You could kill me, there's plenty of meat here, but I'm a STRINGY OL BIRD...
Don't even try. And don't anyone else tell her. She is a confessed Canadian.
Claire, techinically, you didn't say POO you said poopoo... so cat can give it up LOL
you know i could have sworn i was qutoing grownut saying she and harmony thought tf would kill them both if they didn't make up... now i can't fidn where she said that? didn't mean it to sound so harsh, i am not the harsh one...
well, stringy or not, you are one FINE ol biddy... appreciate cha both... and you two too.
OK gang...here is all the ones I've collected from this thread, the past thread and another list I posted the question to. I'ts a heck of a list! Thanks ever so much for all the help & I appologise for causing any distress to anyone.
Sarah
Flew the coop
don’t count your chickens before they hatch
Setting pretty
Poppy cock
Before the cock crows
Feathers were flying
Chicken scratches (bad penmanship)
Getting up with or going to bed with the chickens
Mad as a wet hen
Cock of the walk
PH – the one that almost started the hen wars!
Hen pecked
Cocktail
“do chickens have lips?”
Pecking order
Just like an old mother hen
Don’t get your hackles up
Stewing in your own juices
Birds of a feather
Rule the roost
Running around like a chicken without a head
Eats like a bird
Bird brained
Chicken (coward)
Chicken sh*t
Flew the coop
Ruffled his feathers
Dumb chick
Playing chicken
Hen party
Cocky attitude
Chickens coming home to roost
Hot chicks
Perched on the edge of my seat
Squawking like old hens
Cooped up
Old biddy
Chicken legs
Scratching up something to eat
Whose watching the hen house
Cackling like a bunch of old hens
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket
Chicken feed
Walking on egg shells
Nest egg
Egg on your face
Don’t lay an egg
Too many roosters in this hen house
Good eggs
Lay an egg
Egg on their faces
eggcentric
Egg heads
Scarce as hens teeth
Fox guarding the hen house
Like a chicken on a June bug
Chicken hearted
chicken livered
Just added
cracked up
bad egg
ain't nobady here but us chickens
Quiet your squawking
flew the coop
feathering your nest
hatching an idea
Stuck in your craw
This message was edited Sep 19, 2008 7:23 PM
Actually, I have heard that "poppy cock" is a polite corruption of the Dutch for "bull ----". You might want to check that.
Weeelll, that's a good start.lol.
TF, I think I said Y'all, but not finding it either. Just don't let Houston cut out my internet again!!
OK, HOuston is grounded for cutting into grownuts internet time...
Tf told me to put this here: "Ain't nobody here but us chickens!"
Cackling like a bunch of old hens....
Glad everything is back to 'normal' here...... We have peace and HARMONY and GROW again!
Night all
Cheryl ~ Pea
hey harmony i have a spotted turtle neck dove (think that the name) egg in the incubator do you know how long they take to hatch
Ha! I snuck over and purloined this from BYC: http://www.backyardchickens.com/fun-chicken-sayings.html
lol
Luckycharm I don't know about turtle doves but these ring necks i have can't be hatched in and incubator. Doves feed thier young crop milk when thier born[hatched] and it's by regurgitaion which in other words they throw it up into the chicks mouth. I don't know about these are they like chicks and eat on thier own when born. I've heard you can raise baby birds with a syringe but i don't have any idea about that "sorry".
My Ring Necks hatch in 18 days and so do pigeons.............
This message was edited Sep 16, 2008 5:23 AM
Bumping up 'cause Sarah needs the link I listed. It has rural sayings I've never heard of.
yeah, that is one LONG list...
WOW.
i have hatched these eggs before but not from the start of incubation and it is no problem feeding it i just get a teaspoon and feed it a formula every half hour