I haven't been keeping chickens quite long enough to have any ancient ones, but I do have an oldest hen.
This is Pecker, the only surviving chicken of my first flock. She is 3 1/2 years old, and still lays like the youngest of them. She's not the friendliest (which is to be expected of a Rhode...
I felt it down here in SW OK. I was asleep when I felt the vibrations... Thought at first someone was drying clothes awfully early in the morning :P. Then I realized it wasn't the dryer, but I never figured it out until my Mom told me. Fortunately no damage, and only slightly startled chickens...
Her playing on the keyboard makes me think of the cat I once had. He loved sitting right next to the laptop while I used it! She looks a lot like my own hatchling... Who is calling for "Mama" as I type ("Mama" is his adopted mother. His true mother was never broody)
Ah, I see. I don't think my chickens would ever let me put clothes on them... Though I think Yellow (my misnamed cross rooster) would look nice in a chicken tux :P .
Yay! Too bad about the other one though. But this probably gives the live one a better chance of survival.
And now that we are so happy, we shall do the dance of CHICKEN! :yiipchick
I have 11 Rhode Island Reds(7 pullets), 4 Buff Orpingtons( 3 hens 1 roo) a Barred Rock, an Australorp (the Rock's BFF :P), two Cornish Cross hens, 3 White Rock pullets, 3 Golden Laced Wyandotte pullets, 3 pullets that are either Dominiques or Cuckoo Marans, A roo of unknown breed (probs a...
@Rosecomb Lover: It's not uncommon for more docile chickens to get beaten up by less tame ones. It has always been true with all the breeds in my flock: the fiesty ones (like most of my RIRs) are on top of the pecking order, and the tamer Orpingtons and one Barred Rock I had are on the lower...