Sentences with phrase «chickens pecking»

One image, «Your sadness is drunk», depicts several chickens pecking in a dusty abandoned site — like vultures feasting on a dry corpse, pecking on nothingness.

We'd come upon two chickens pecking at a compost heap, and instead see a KFC.

Her children play nearby, as scrawny chickens peck in the dirt yard.

If you are constantly having to chicken peck your search settings on your mobile phone then you are wasting valuable time.

In the version demonstrated by Geoff Lawton in the video below, the chickens aren't fed grain at all — but rather food scraps from local restaurants, which the chickens peck at and incorporate into a mulch mixture, creating high quality compost exactly where it is needed.

And, the more of them I used, the more I felt like a chicken pecking and swiping around on a screen on my wrist, instead of using the Gear 2 for what it really should be: a simple one - glance substitute for staring and pecking and swiping at my phone.

Not exact matches

Be like a chicken, pecking in the barnyard all day long, «never full but never hungry.»

This year, Jokgu the piano playing chicken will peck out the National Anthem («definitely a first for us,» Morris says).

On a cloudy summer day, Iowa farmer Wendy Johnson lifts the corner of a mobile chicken tractor, a lightweight mesh - covered plastic frame that has corralled her month - old meat chickens for a few days, and frees several dozen birds to peck the surrounding area at will.

Detestable are those spring chickens who pick and peck with no sullen reasoning.

Chickens also have a pecking order, and if a fight breaks out among floor birds, the loser of a chicken fight can undergo an involuntary change of career from laying eggs to becoming someone's dinner.

Our chickens (I haven't talked about them here yet — we got chickens) scratched at the creeping charlie, pecking at the grass seed we put down as an exercise in futility.

A close cousin to our fowl friend the turkey, a ten foot, 250 pound chicken in full Towne Park valet regalia has been spotted pecking around outside Towne Park Headquarters just in time for Thanksgiving.

A few wannabes will even give an illicit peck to Derek Jeter, but Morganna really was pecked — by the San Diego Chicken.

Susan, a stay - at - home mom to two toddlers, blogs at Pecked To Death By Chickens, runs the site Wooden Train Set Reviews and is working on a line of two - piece footie pajamas perfect for potty training.

As mom to 2 toddlers (ages 2 and 5), wife to a work - from - home husband and executive director of the Maccarelli family meals, activities, cleaning, laundry, shopping, real estate endeavors, travel and general errands, she derives constant inspiration for her blog, Pecked To Death By Chickens, from the little annoyances that pop up daily as she tries to keep an eye on all the moving parts.

She did however convince him to do so and the chickens are still happily pecking away.

, making paper plate pecking chickens and getting a visit from one of Smolak Farms» barnyard friends.

Very soon the roosting chicken will be on the loose and in pecking condition, especially in the north in whose court the egg must remain until 2023.

Paladino is colorfully emphasizing his point in several ways, including hiring a person to wear a chicken costume while driving a chicken car to dog — pardon, peck at — Lazio during campaign appearances.

Chickens that do not waste energy pecking each other are likely to lay lots of eggs.

In one study, researchers left the pecking order in some chicken flocks undisturbed.

Chickens that moved around frequently tended not to peck at their companions.

These farmers, including many in the United States, have learned to raise drug - free chickens, mainly by going back to the old ways — letting chickens roam free, day and night, pecking at grubs in the ground.

California poultry had the highest, consistent with strict furniture flammability codes, but it's not like chickens are pecking at the furniture.

According to Dr. Jennifer Rooke — Assistant Professor in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine at Morehouse School of Medicine, «Cattle no longer feed on grass and chickens do not peck in the dirt on factory farms.

Pecking Order; a «flockumentary» which follows the members of the 148 - year - old Christchurch Poultry, Bantam and Pigeon Club as they prepare for the National Show and facing off against the next generation of chicken fanciers.

Regardless of age, M.O.D.O.K. getting pecked in the face by chickens is pretty funny to watch.

That's where we get the phrase «pecking order,» because people - like chickens - like to know who's better than whom.

See, chickens need to establish a pecking order to organize the social aspects of their flock.

The idea that dogs follow the pack leader first began to take shape in the 1920s when ethologists (biologists who study animal behavior) discovered pecking orders in chicken coops.

When the music started, the chickens would jump on the platform and start scratching and pecking until the food reward was delivered.

The chickens would stand quietly on a platform in the beginning of training; however, once they learned to associate the platform with a food reward, half (50 %) started scratching the platform, and another 25 % developed other behaviors, such as pecking the platform.

Much of the meat sold by the restaurants is sourced locally and reared in a fashion to which the tag «free range» takes on a whole new meaning: often, as you settle into your seat in almost any rural café, the owner's chickens will be pecking around your feet and his goats will be fighting with each other in front of the bar.

we ask and two kids hop into action — «come on» — and lead us a few yards down the road to a nondescript alleyway where a chicken slowly pecks away at his tin of food and a woman hangs up laundry to dry.

But like chickens moved to a new coop, not all fair - goers travel far and wide, many stay close to the center, until on occasion they peck each other's eyes out.

Here's a thought: let's not cram millions of chickens in cages packed so tight that we have to cut their beaks off just so they don't peck one another to death.

Battery chickens have their beaks cut off to prevent them from pecking themselves and other chickens as they react to being kept in unnaturally confined spaces.