Anyone else keep their birds as pets? (Not for food)

[ILuvMyFlock]

Hm.... I've owned chickens for about 8-9 years so I have plenty sad, happy and funny ones. 

A great one is when one of our first batches of chickens pecked my little sisters eye. Not funny for her but funny for us! 

A sad one was when one of our batches of chickens got a bump under her wing and she had it for about a week then she would eat it off and it would come back the next week. This happened for about a month and I found her one day in the pen dead.   R.I.P Curious.

I have more but I can't seem to remember them right now... when I do I'll defiantly share them!


Do you have any? 

A goofy one is my two male adult geese, they think they're the police of the yard, if anything does something they don't like they chase them off. After chasing them off they'll step up onto this little mound and beat their wings and lift their heads in defiance. Another thing too is they'll follow me everywhere, they greet me with their heads lowered and then I'll lower mine, and we keep greeting each other it always makes me chuckle.

 

[chicken4prez]

A goofy one is my two male adult geese, they think they're the police of the yard, if anything does something they don't like they chase them off. After chasing them off they'll step up onto this little mound and beat their wings and lift their heads in defiance. Another thing too is they'll follow me everywhere, they greet me with their heads lowered and then I'll lower mine, and we keep greeting each other it always makes me chuckle.

That's hilarious!!!!!!!!!

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

Thank you. They also run of my tom turkey when he wants to come after me, he's usually pretty tame but since the ladies been laying he's been feistier. I also have this young roo who's not all there he tries to mate with anything and everything, and the geese chase him off too. I just love feeling safe due to the geese. I got some bad news for my rowdy flock lol, I have around 9 teen geese in a tractor for now, but soon I will have more men and women on the geese police force haha.

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

Some of my birds

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Can tpu the difference in all of them.

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

Can tpu the difference in all of them.

Hmm? I'm not sure what you mean?

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Like know eevry singleone and have names for eveyone of your animals.

 

[marybhow]

My chickens are my pets! I'll never cull one. My family will eat their eggs and that will be all. I walked out today and one of them was laying out in the sun with her leg and wing stretched out just lounging around. She looked up at me like "what?" She started dozing until someone else bumped into her and then she jumped up to see what all the commotion was about. Chickens definitely have fear of missing out!

 

[ILuvMyFlock]

Like know eevry singleone and have names for eveyone of your animals.

It's not necessarily that I name them all as I have too many to name, but I do recognize them all. It's like anything else; the more time you spend with something the more you get to know them. Some have names, and some do not but I recognize them and acknowledge them. For instance I have this goofy young rooster whose always trying to mate anything and everything - the ducks, geese, guineas whatever he can sneak up on... anyway I call him molestor as a joke but that's not his name. For instance I have this main RIR roo I've had since I first started practically we call him doo floppy because his crest flops to the side. Same with this polish daddy roo I call him crazy, he's not mean but he's very odd like he runs in the goofiest fashion etc. like my two adult male geese I haven't named them yet but In the midst of the other teen geese they're recognizable. Sometimes the younger birds are harder to distinguish but with age and time I do. Even in the coop of 30+ hens I've learned how each hen is unique, some have official names others I nickname or just reference based on their personalities. Does this make sense? I know it sounds odd but I can even kinda tell which birds came from my first birds, which are the kids, grandkids, so forth. I have this Rouen running around and many would confuse him with another / or the Rouen dad but I can just tell them apart.

 

[TheTwoRoos]

I was wandering because guineas look so alike.I have about 30+ poultry period.Ducks,geese,and chickens.I thought Wouldn't recognize the geese but now I can tell all 3 apart.And it is easier to sex them,thought I wouldnt be able to genders.