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We just took an extended road trip with Toggles and another. We got to see some things having fun all the way.

Correct. Same thing happens with fish and even trees

I brought Toggles back into house to keep him out of rain. Look at check marks on tail feathers from when he was down with coccidiocis. There are no similar marks on his wing feathers I can see. He is getting extremely buddy buddy with me where he perches on my shoulder to preen and sleep...

After an hour she has resumed clucking and Toggles went back to cheeping. They are now on the roost together about 6 feet up.

And they are tidbitting for each other.

Toggle was released to hang with his mother after a two week separation. They still recognized each other by voice. The got into three short fights where she one each time. Then she held here head down to listen to him talk like a rooster bonding to young chicks. Toggles and his mom are now...

I had to a test determining if Toggle would consume the substantially larger adult Dubia roaches. I assumed he would dismember first like he does for larger praying mantises and Differential Grasshoppers. He consumed the roach intact, which I did not expect.

Today, I got 6 of these critters for Toggles to eat. I will take him through a sequence of feed types / sizes to show how it impacts his approach and vocalizations when feeding. First, we will do regular meal worms, then medium sized Dubia Roaches and finally adult Dubia Roaches as shown below...

Toggles in deep sleep mode. Note head tucked.

Toggle has found something good he can do in the home. Eating brown recluse spiders. We have a bunch in some boxes, and he got down to business. Not enough fill his crop to even a measurable degree, yet he saved me trouble of using the vacuum cleaner on them.

Toggles has gotten insistent about roosting on me under my shirt. He is a cuddler!

Bug hunt. We walked doorways around lights looking for insect drift attracted by night lights that settled low to ground as sun came up. Most of what Toggles found were moths, mayflies, and crickets although we did find an adult green phase female Carolina Mantid. She proved tasty. Toggles did...

Commander Toggle

Toggle will have opportunities, likely daily to interact with other chickens. At some point he'll be moved outside at least while I'm at work. Most of the time he will be house alone although I may make so he has a girlfriend once he is in adult feather. Otherwise, if like prior birds I have...

I had a sick chick, the only survivor of his brood due coccidiosis. He is well on to the road to recovery from very near death so he is a very tough little dude. He went through about a week where he had trouble thermal regulating. I took him from his mother at about six weeks post-hatch and...