Chickens

**cinn&sprinslave** · #1 11-10-04, 02:52 pm

Anyone have any info on chickens? I would really like to get a pair of females aka hens (as pets, I would never eat them). I need any sites with info, housing ideas etc.
Thanks in advance,
Natalie

**bunnyluv17** · #2 11-11-04, 02:39 pm

www.farmanimalshelters.org/care_chicken.htm

www.farmsanctuary.org

**mncavylover** · #3 11-11-04, 04:48 pm

Have fun finding your chickens, cinn! I hope that you can find some from a reliable source.

**sofiemuffins** · #4 11-12-04, 08:17 am

I'm jealous! I want a pet chicken! my mom had one growing up, that actually fostered some abandoned kittens! how odd is that?

**cinn&sprinslave** · #5 11-12-04, 12:28 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by mncavylover

Have fun finding your chickens, cinn! I hope that you can find some from a reliable source.

Ya that will be the hardest part! Not many people are adopting out chickens.

**cinn&sprinslave** · #6 11-12-04, 12:28 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by sofiemuffins

I'm jealous! I want a pet chicken! my mom had one growing up, that actually fostered some abandoned kittens! how odd is that?

Wow weird!

**cinn&sprinslave** · #7 11-12-04, 12:32 pm

Thanks for the links!

**mncavylover** · #8 11-12-04, 03:41 pm

That's really odd about the kittens! Did you know that pigs are almost as intelligent as chimpanzees, but most people have no idea?

**loves2travel** · #9 11-12-04, 06:17 pm

speaking of intelligence of pigs, so many people have come to my house and said "guinea Pigs? but why????? They are so stupid! All they do is huddle in a corner all day."

And I really wanted to say, well, if they had a cage that actually allowed movement, theyd be doing lots. And if you actually made an effort to interact with them, they wouldnt just hide all day.

aaargh. makes me soo mad. mncavylover, do you have a link to something that says facts about piggy intelligence?

**mncavylover** · #10 11-12-04, 06:43 pm

I agree with you. It's totally stupid of people to say that!

Well, one link is here: http://www.peta.org/feat/parade/cinpig.html
Hold on, I'll find more.

**mncavylover** · #11 11-12-04, 06:47 pm

Ok, here are some more:

http://www.peta.org/feat/piggycontest/
http://www.goveg.com/feat/ifyourdog/
http://www.petakids.com/food_pigs.html

There are other sources than peta, but I knew those are reliable sites.

**loves2travel** · #12 11-12-04, 07:27 pm

thanks! do you have anything that says stuff about guinea pig intelligence?

**loves2travel** · #13 11-14-04, 06:33 pm

does anyone have info about guinea pig intelligence

**mncavylover** · #14 11-14-04, 07:07 pm

Sorry, I must have accidentally missed this thread previously.

Yes, there are plenty of sites about this. Here are some:

http://www.myerscough.ac.uk/animal/p.../guineapig.asp

Ok, scratch that. There aren't many. That's pretty much all I could find that wasn't a lab or a breeder. Please know that I don't really support the link above. It's all I could find. Look on the guinealynx forums if you'd like.

**loves2travel** · #15 11-14-04, 09:20 pm

i read somewhere that they were slightly more intelligent than a cat. is this true?

**loves2travel** · #16 11-15-04, 06:37 pm

anybody know?

**bunnyluv17** · #17 11-16-04, 05:19 pm

What constitutes intelligence? If you define intelligence as sociability and trainability, then cats would be considered "less intelligent" than dogs. But if you define it as stealth and cunning cats would be way more intelligent than dogs. It is too hard to determine intelligence and what animal is more "intelligent" then what other animal.

but here are two sites

http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull/Guin...or.html#senses

http://members.iinet.au/~podbay/guinea/pigs2a.html

**mncavylover** · #18 11-16-04, 08:56 pm

Thanks for the links! I just couldn't find too many very quickly.

The second doesn't work, though.

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