The Story Of My Chickos! (unnamed coop '_')

[DogAndCat36]

So the story of my lovely flock. I wish that I had a phone to take millions of beautiful pictures of my chickies but my b-day gift is a coop that I'm building so, yay! Well just wanted to talk about my chickens. I have 4 Australorps, 1 Easter Egger, 3 Golden Laced Sebrights, 1 Silver Duckwing and 4 temporary living here Meat Chickens (I hope that we never get meat chickens again)

My Chickens
The Australorps- Ivy, Bertha, Nuisance, and Red
My EE- Ivory
The Golden Laced Sebrights- Runt, Danny Bantam, and Wren
My Silver Duckwing- Falcon
The Meat Chickens- Milk, Lemon, Amber, and Mudball
(I will explain their names later on)

So, anyway, we started off with 32 chicks. My mom kinda only likes them in chick form, so ya, 32 poor little chickens living in a really small playhouse. We had 8 meat chickens, 4 golden laced Sebright's, 3 silver duckwings, 1 golden duckwings, 8 australorps, and 8 easter eggers.

My Chickens That Didn't Make It ;-;
The Australorps- Joker, Batman, Blackie, and Shadow
The EEs- Mr. Pickles, Lionheart, Dragon, Safire, Redcap, Ebony, and Midnight
My Golden Laced Sebright- (I sadly don't remember her name)
My Silver Duckwing- Marshmallow and Vanilla
My Golden Ducking- Coco
The Meat Chickens- Pillow and Zest (I didn't name the rest...)
May they rest in peace, my little babies.

I will talk more tomorrow. Bye

 

[DogAndCat36]

Well anyway, before I start with my chickens that are alive, I want to talk a little bit about the chickens that have passed away.

A few of the chicken disappeared when I go to school in the morning, but the main vicious killer, the heartless cruel murders where crows! They dragged off at least 8 chickens, but truth be told it was my parents' fault for making the chickens live outside before they even finished molting and losing their fluff, they were pretty small. And I have seen the crows fly off holding the chickens, I have seen them mauling them, I know what type of creature kills my birds, I don't just assume and blame. Land predators have dragged off at least 3 chickens. And 7 of my chickens died at the time that I like to the massacre.

I went shopping with my parents in the morning and they stalled till night and "tried to call" my siblings to lock them up for the night, leaving only a message. Well, I came home, it is like 10 pm and I looked at the door of the coop, it was open. I was completely horrified when I walked towards the coop, feathers were everywhere, including the distinctive feathers of Mr. Pickles, my baby. In the coop were two chickens, Runt and Lemon, just sitting down, waiting for me. I close the door and shout for my other chickens, nothing. The next day later, my roo, Redcap was heard crowing from the left side of the house, out of the 21 chickens, only 14 survived. I mean, I should still be thankful that not all of them died. (Please just know, we are not talking about my parents, so please don't talk about it.)

Later, Redcap was hit by a car, he was the only one that died after that. If I ever caught that driver that hit him, I would punch him, but sadly self-justice can’t be served so I would fine him to oblivion. I mean, if you hit someone's pet or what they would call “a piece of property” you should still return the carcass to the family to burial and apologize, not just drive off like a piece of scum. It is illegal to kill owned animals that pos no threat to others, you, or your animals, even if they are on your property! If you hit an animal by mistake, don’t just drive off, it is like accidentally breaking your neighbor’s window with a baseball (but even more serious and worse), it might hurt, but you have to do it because it is the right thing.

Here is the story of how Mr. Pickles got his name. He was a little chick, still fluffy. I was petting him one day and I was talking to my sister about what should his name be. My mom must have thought that we said that his name would be Pickles because, in her room, she said, "What!? You are naming one of your chickens' Pickles?!" and then we decided to name him Ms. Pickles... until he crowed and we renamed him to Mr. Pickles. He was a good boy.

 

[chrissynemetz]

I'm sorry about the birds you lost. How are the others doing?

 

[DogAndCat36]

I'm sorry about the birds you lost. How are the others doing?

They are doing great, thank you. ^-^