My family already learned about just one chicken by themselves. They're very social and need a flock. There was one that hatched out in my sister's classroom, who was called Calamity, and we tried to integrate him with the flock when he came home. He was really really not a well-adjusted kind of...
My family had six Fayoumi over the years, and we had to be careful with the gang of four to get them in the pen before sunset, or they would find their own perches. Those ones were wild and were not easily bribed. The first two were relatively tame and we had no problems with them. Calico in...
We definitely used ours for that. Calico was the best. She would clean flies off windows very quickly and was always hungry for more. She also enjoyed carpenter ants, and considered a line of them an excellent treat.
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I can't have chickens where I am right now -- it's an apartment, so there's really absolutely no room -- so when I get to missing having chickens around I wind up looking at the pictures and remembering my old friends.
Hi, I'm Azz, and I keep winding up back here when I'm looking for pictures of chickens and fun stories.
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
My family got chickens when I was about 9 years old. My Calico quickly became my best friend and tried to eat my books as I...