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Have I opened a can of worms? :P What's your favorite chicken breed as far as the roos go? Some are downright gorgeous, but I can never remember what breeds they are. (I wasn't sure where to put this thread--sorry if I'm in the wrong place.)

We had the same problem. I don't know if the hens were just playing in the food or if the multitude of finches we're attracting had something to do with it, but there was food -everywhere-. We ended up ditching the gravity feeder for a little trough about three or four feet wide (we have six...

Hi! :D What breed(s) do you have? I have a little flock of RIRs and they are the sweetest pets. <3

Hahaha, don't get between a chicken and its treats... ;)

1. The chickens received nice juicy mango pits today and lost their tiny minds. 2. I received my first injury-by-chicken today. These facts are 100% related.

A board for my butt! XD Just a scrap of plywood I take into the coop with me so I can sit on something (relatively) clean. :P

Glad to be of service! -salutes- Today was a lot more chill. It was unseasonably and gloriously cool--nice breeze and everything--so I hung out with the girls. Dragged my buttboard in, tucked my knees up, and let Sassy perch on my arm. We just sat there together for a while, facing into the...

I love the Ugly Butterfly Maneuver, when I pick them up and they don't want to be up. Wings out, head down, and paddling. :P I love the way they'll mill around me impatiently until I sit down and then can get up on my lap. Oh, and the way the insist upon wiping their beaks on me. (I choose to...

My dog plushie. XD

Well, I should've mentioned that scorps here are only very slightly poisonous. I've been stung by three and I'm still kickin', but I don't know if a little chicken body could fight it off. Might have been what killed Ethel One, so I didn't want to take any chances. I'm just glad it was dead...

Let me set this up: so I'm moving one of my chooks' waterers to a shadier spot. I hand it to my mom out the kennel door so she can refill it, then grab the cinder block we put the waterer on. Lo and behold! Beetles! Naturally, I immediately say "Hey girls! Lookit!" and they start pecking...

Atheist-ish. I'm very into the Buddhist philosophy, but I don't really adhere to anything organized.

When a chicken molts, will the new feathers grow in with the exact same patterns as the old? One of my hens has one little half-black feather on her shoulder and it's the only way I can tell her apart. :P You think it'll still be there after she molts?

So that's why they do that! I thought they just didn't like the sudden movement when I bent down to pet them too fast. :P

My neurotic little Five let me pick her up, scoop her to my chest, and cuddle her a bit. The whole time she made this dorky little noise that sounded like a cross between a squeak toy and a goose.

I got yelled at this morning. "Doop de doo, any eggs in this box?" "SKREEEEEEACK!!!!" "SORRY."

She was a seven-month-old RIR. Thanks for the link, I'll check it out and keep an eye on the rest of the flock. :)

Ethel's gone. -sigh- We found her all cold and crumpled underneath the nest boxes. She wasn't sick or... y'know, eaten... so it must have been a scorpion--which is still kind of surprising considering I've been stung by three to no ill effect, but a little chicken body must be too small to...

I was checking the nest boxes today and Sassy took a giant leap, latched onto my hip, literally climbed up my body and settled in on my arm (her favorite roost) after much wobbling and flapping. I swear she thinks she's a parrot. :P

Sassy, Peaches, Barley, Five, Ethel, Ethel, and Ethel! :)