Comments on: Henny Penny, My First Feathered Love

By: Robert Blosl Secetary Plymouth Rock Fanicers Club

Robert Blosl Secetary Plymouth Rock Fanicers Club — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:55:01 +0000

I dont know if you will read this message but I wanted to send you a copy of our Club Newsletter.

If I had your email address I could send you a copy.

I think your Barred Rocks are from the Frank Reese Line. We hava about 10 new familys with this great old line going back to the 1900s. Bob Blosl Sec. Rock Club

By: David Simpson

David Simpson — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:31:36 +0000

Allen:
Great story. Here is mine.
My wife and I were both raised on a farm which had chickens, as a matter of fact when I was in 4-H as a youngster I raised chickens as a stock show project one year.
When we got our place here in the Hill Country of Texas our first thing to do was build a coop and get 10 Buff Orpington chicks. Then I saw a trio if partridge cochin bantam chickens and just had to have them for there beauty. Well the chicks grew into 5 roosters and 4 hens and the cochins got noisy. Well needless to say one of the neighbors didn’t like being woke up at before daylight so instead of having problems with the neighbor I got rid of the chickens.
I had forgotten that I had put one egg from the Cochin’s into the incubator with some of my quail eggs. It hatched on Valentines day (named it Val) two years ago but the chick had spraddle legs.
Well my wife, being the tinder hearted person she is got on the Internet and found advice from people on Backyard chicken magazine and took string and hobbled the chicks legs together and gave her kids vitamins placed it in a coffee cup with food and water in another two cups so the chick could eat and drink.
To try and shorten this it turned out to be a female and she is in perfect health and has the run of the back yard and is a wonderful pet.
SAVE THE CHICKENS !!!!

By: Opal Larson

Opal Larson — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:57:54 +0000

When I was very young, I had a love for all things critter, except snakes. We were very poor money wise, but my Dad could point out interesting little things, how the ants worked, Horn Toads, since I thought they were ‘toads’ I wasn’t a bit afraid. I carryed one or two around with me, puttig them in by bibber pocket. When I was older we worked on a egg farm, and I tryed to make pets out of all the chickens. Not too successfully. Later on we had a place of our own, and again we got chickens, white ones that came in the mail. There was a small one that the others seamed to pick on, I would feed her bits of bread, worms and assorted bugs. I really grew to love this chicken. Latter in life I became the possesser of a chick that had come to loose a leg,[ my fault] and I devoted the rest of my life to making it up to this special little girl. She lived on the porch in the summer, and my Dad wasn’t agenst letting her sleep on the side of the wood box in the cold winter. I can really relate to your Henny Penny, we named our one leged hen “Peggy” Not very origional, but it fit. Thank you for your artical. Yours, Opal Larson, Prineville, OR.

By: Mike Mecke

Mike Mecke — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:14:58 +0000

Sandy, you received some very good advice already. An additional tack might be to provide City Council/Zoning with copies of other city’s regs. I was raised in major city – San Antonio, TX and they still allow up to five (5) birds, no nuisance sounds or smells. Now retired to Kerrville, TX and they allow chickens too, but have some pretty tough (too tough) distance factors from neighbors. So check some nearby towns of same or bigger sizes and look into their Codes and find under: livestock, poultry, pets, etc. and copy a few good samples for your town. Make it easy for them to understand and to write their code. Correct on no roosters needed, if on tight neighborhood lots. Good luck, Mike

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:08:38 +0000

Sharon, I was able to find a copy of Henny Penny online. I hope I’m able to post a link here. If not, Google “free download Henny Penny.” The best to you and I hope this helps.

http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=1529104&pageno=7

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 23:37:13 +0000

Sandy, here’s my thoughts on your dilemma. I think possibly a lot of people think that where there’s chickens there’s also going to be a loud crowing rooster. Maybe you should let them know that its not necessary to have a rooster when all you’re after are the eggs.

I’d write them a nice email and include an authoritative link on the subject. Maybe even three links. Good luck to you.

By: Anne Nawawi

Anne Nawawi — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:04:29 +0000

Love the fluffy Sebastopol Geese. Used to hatch different eggs every spring in my Chidren’s Room at the Library!

By: Sharon E. Patterson

Sharon E. Patterson — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:13:01 +0000

Allen, do you know the story, “Henny Penny”? My Mother used to read a story to me when I was little and she is getting ready to pass away, and I would like that story if you have it. I know it has to do with chickens, and it’s very important to me. Could you email me that story. I love your story also, but when I saw this blog I thought you must know the original story also. Thank you, and I love your show, and gardening ideas, absolutely marvelous!
Sincerely, Sharon E. Patterson

By: Robbie Pratt

Robbie Pratt — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 06:39:32 +0000

Hi Allen,
I live in No. California and watch your PBS show ‘My Garden Home’ Daily. . . .My in-laws live in No. Little Rock and I can’t wait to come back to visit and hopefully get a chance to stop in at your ‘Garden Home’. . . Just wondering if you have any guineas amongst your poultry flock??? My grandmother lived in a village in NE AR and I recall all sorts of fowl on the farm. . .I am Vegan and love all sorts of animals. . . My passion, aside from acting, is gardening. . . .I absolutely love all things green. . .well, except the ivy that is growing on my back fence. . .How do I eradicate it???

By: Mary Lynn Metras

Mary Lynn Metras — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:11:45 +0000

Henny Penny is so cute. Thanks goodness you have a desire to rescue and Henny led you to that. I rescue outdoor and indoor birds. They live in my home if they are unable to fly again. My friend found a downed carrier pidgeon named Pidge now and she stays with me in the house. I also have a 7 year old rescued sparrow named George. The 2 of them get along with my own Cockatiel, rescued Budgie and Finch. Love your stories. Keep up the good work.

By: B.J.

B.J. — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:40:09 +0000

Love the chicken stories. retired to the country 6 years ago. Too many projects! Now the barn yard fence is getting fixed, hopefully a chicken house, poultry shelters and pens will be next. We have an irrigation creek, so bugs and misquitoes are abundant. heritage chickens ducks and geese are the plan, for enjoyment, eggs and bug control! Hope to be able to let them roam the pasture and yards during the day. Thanks to all for the info.!

By: Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:09:00 +0000

Love this story!

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:04:50 +0000

Ever since I was a child I loved my grandfathers little Bantam chickens. In the 70′s after moving from Canton, NC to Decatur, AL grandaddy presented my little daughters with two little Bantams, a hen and a rooster. That little rooster crowed almost all the 7 hr trip to Alabama. Rooster looked like a game and the little hen, we named Golddust was gold, fat and fluffy and had the feathers down around her feet. She was a cutie. Eventually we moved and sold the chickens and offspring. Had no trouble selling them. I enjoy your shows when you are showing off your “girls”. Keep up the wonderful programs.

By: Betty Bee

Betty Bee — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:56:02 +0000

Just love your chicken stories! After growing up on my grandparents farm and loving all the animals, this spring we acquired 5 heritage pullets that have just begun laying fresh lovely eggs. There’s nothing more beautiful than waking to the sweet music of their ‘egg songs’ and yummy nutritious eggs for breakfast! Several weeks ago we returned from church and to our surprise we followed a trail of feathers and ‘such’ into our bathroom where our five chickens had gathered! You just never tire of their comical personalities.

By: Mary Trout

Mary Trout — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:29:40 +0000

Because of our visit to Moss Mountain this past spring for the Tale of Two Farms, we finally got “off the fence” and bought 17 acres. It hasn’t been used for farmland in 50 years so there is a lot of clearing to do. Can’t wait for early spring to start our first little brood of feathered friends!

To say your are incredibly inspirational is too mundane. Here is a quote that we feel describes you. You are very humble but we hope you like it too. “Nothing great in science has ever been done by men, whatever their powers, in whom the divine afflatus of the truth-seeker was wanting.” ~~Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95), British biologist and educator~~

By: Caroline Colasanti

Caroline Colasanti — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:07:05 +0000

Chickens are so beautiful. Never had the time to get personally acquainted with one, even though we had about 15 at one time. Moved here to the Midwest, so I paint chickens.

My grandmother in Kansas, had a chicken that came into the house everyday, jumped up on the bed, laid an egg, then went out. What a wonderful gift.

Visit my website for some chicken pictures.

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:12:43 +0000

My little town is considering banning chickens. FOOEY! Portland (OR) and some nearby suburbs allow poultry, usually just four hens. That would be great to have. I only have indoor finches now but I like the idea that I COULD have chickens. The mayor lives just up the street and the next time I see him, I’m giving him my enthusiastic Pro-poultry two-cents-worth! Banning them is such a backwards step when we really need to be encouraging sensible
husbandry, gardening and eating practices.

By: Dianna Bird

Dianna Bird — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:16:27 +0000

Fowl are beautiful. My neighbor up the mtn had chickens they died of old age. Mom had a Tom turkey come visit. They chased him away and he came back with his mate. He pecked his reflection all around my brothers truck. and the telephone repairman had his tool belt pecked.

By: sharon

sharon — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:54:16 +0000

Allen, your story about the chickens was wonderful, but it was the photos that I really loved. As a small child I lived with my grandparents, and a favorite event was afternoon tea with my grandmother. I would stand on the front porch and ring the doorbell, pretending that I was coming for tea. My grandmother would open the door, and I would say, “Hello, Mrs McGillicudy”, her ‘tea name’ and she would reply, “Hello, Mrs Bufforpington”,” my ‘tea name.’ I never knew that the name was a breed of chickens! I’ve had a good laugh over that! Thanks Allen, for awakening some lovely, long-ago memories.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 01:36:43 +0000

I loved your story. We raised Araucana’s and Bantam’s growing up. All were pets to us as well.
We go to our local farmers market every Saturday for farm fresh eggs here in GA. I may ask my husband to build me a coop next spring!