- Aug 22, 2014
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Hello everybody.
First I would like to excuse my English, and also my lack of skills regarding chickens. What I know I mostly learned here.
This chicken was found alone on the street after the Easter holiday (April 20), only about a week old. Probably used as Easter decoration and tossed out when it was over. So it is no way to track its origin.
My daughter brought it home from the public farm where it was delivered by the finder. It was too small to survive, so she volunteered to bring it up to size on her own. Well, we live in a flat at 5th floor in the middle of a city, so yeah; it was a bit... weird. But it turned out to be big fun. She was a part of our family for about 5 months.
Below I will post the latest pictures, as those are easier to classify. I have plenty pictures of her stay with us at bxp.no, but I’m afraid the website is in Norwegian.
She is not the most social bird. She likes to follow the people it knows around, but don’t like to be petted. I’m the only person she clings to, but lately she started to pick on me too. She can be very aggressive if cornered, by man or other fowl (especially turkeys). She also is a clever thief, some visitors at the farm toss her crumbs, but she ignore the crumbs and jump up and go for the whole thing, cake, bread or whatever it is they are eating, often with success. I guess our socializing her as a house pet is to blame for her lack of fear and respect of people.
None among the staff know what she is. Some said she may be a sort of ”fighting fowl”, but in my view she does not attack or fight that much, she just don’t give in. Now even the turkeys and pea fowls who used to pick on her have respect for her. However, I have no knowledge, so I can’t tell.
About Aldo (her name)
I think she looks a lot like a wheaten Malay, but her comb is wrong, also her neck (and legs?) is a bit stumpy. Her size is pretty much the same as an Italian, but she is more compact, she feels very heavy and solid.
She looks like an eagle with comb, the stare makes most people avoid her.
What I wonder is:
Is she a particular breed, or is she a mix?
Is there “hot blood” in her (is she of an aggressive breed) that could make it impossible to have her among children and other birds? Will she change when she is mature? The answers will be important in order to determine her future. We may have to move her to a normal farm, without visitors. If she becomes more aggressive she may have to be taken out.
I’m told she laid her first small egg right after the last picture in this post, which is about 22 weeks after she was found. This post became way longer than intended. If you still read, here are the pics:
First I would like to excuse my English, and also my lack of skills regarding chickens. What I know I mostly learned here.
This chicken was found alone on the street after the Easter holiday (April 20), only about a week old. Probably used as Easter decoration and tossed out when it was over. So it is no way to track its origin.
My daughter brought it home from the public farm where it was delivered by the finder. It was too small to survive, so she volunteered to bring it up to size on her own. Well, we live in a flat at 5th floor in the middle of a city, so yeah; it was a bit... weird. But it turned out to be big fun. She was a part of our family for about 5 months.
Below I will post the latest pictures, as those are easier to classify. I have plenty pictures of her stay with us at bxp.no, but I’m afraid the website is in Norwegian.
She is not the most social bird. She likes to follow the people it knows around, but don’t like to be petted. I’m the only person she clings to, but lately she started to pick on me too. She can be very aggressive if cornered, by man or other fowl (especially turkeys). She also is a clever thief, some visitors at the farm toss her crumbs, but she ignore the crumbs and jump up and go for the whole thing, cake, bread or whatever it is they are eating, often with success. I guess our socializing her as a house pet is to blame for her lack of fear and respect of people.
None among the staff know what she is. Some said she may be a sort of ”fighting fowl”, but in my view she does not attack or fight that much, she just don’t give in. Now even the turkeys and pea fowls who used to pick on her have respect for her. However, I have no knowledge, so I can’t tell.
About Aldo (her name)
I think she looks a lot like a wheaten Malay, but her comb is wrong, also her neck (and legs?) is a bit stumpy. Her size is pretty much the same as an Italian, but she is more compact, she feels very heavy and solid.
She looks like an eagle with comb, the stare makes most people avoid her.
What I wonder is:
Is she a particular breed, or is she a mix?
Is there “hot blood” in her (is she of an aggressive breed) that could make it impossible to have her among children and other birds? Will she change when she is mature? The answers will be important in order to determine her future. We may have to move her to a normal farm, without visitors. If she becomes more aggressive she may have to be taken out.
I’m told she laid her first small egg right after the last picture in this post, which is about 22 weeks after she was found. This post became way longer than intended. If you still read, here are the pics:
