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He's very handsome!!!
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Name: Twinkle
Age: 14 months
Breed: Silver Colored EE/Black Cochin Bantam
How'd You Wound Up With this chicken: I wanted two more chicks to raise and add to my flock, and I coincidentally found a place with four black chicks they were going to give away. I grabbed one chick with sleek black down, but as I pulled the chick from the cage, one of its siblings followed it, it's eyes saying "where are you going? don't leave!" I was at first going to pick another sleek black chick over this one as it was a dull grey and a bit fat and lazy looking. I felt bad though, and decided I'd take it anyway. This chick grew to be a beautiful rooster who isn't dull, fat, or lazy.
He was named Twinkle.
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Name: Tispaa
Age: 7-12 months
Breed: Wheaten American Game
How'd You Wound Up With this chicken: A friend of mine said they found a chicken in their backyard that apparently arrived during the recent blackout at the time. They knew we kept chickens and offered that we keep her. We agreed and went to their house equipped with a sheet and boxes to catch what was described as a fast and flighty chicken. When we find the chicken, she is foraging under the bushes. We try to lure her out with scratch that we brought, and it works. But when we get within 5-6 feet of her she backs away. After about 20 minutes of uselessness it turns into a wild chase around the yard with a small little hen jumping high and flying with impressive accuracy for such a young bird. She was still peeping at the time. We tried throwing sheets on her which she would dodge with incredible speed. After a long time the poor hen had had enough and jumped up onto the fence to our horror. Surprisingly, she liked it up there so much she almost went to sleep. We were creeping up beneath her when she heard us and jumped off of the fence onto a shed in the yard opposite ours. It was literally a yard facing a yard. We were scared now, we thought we had lost the hen. But we had to try, we drove around the neighborhood and after 15 minutes of searching came to the right house. We knocked on the door, and waited longer than anyone would wait for someone to answer the door, but we were desperate to save this hen. Finally, a frail old chines woman came out. We told her everything, and she became very excited and led us through the house to the backyard where, surprisingly, the hen was standing in the exact same spot we left her 25 minutes ago. We tried coaxing her down, but she decided to take an enormous leap to the roof of the house. We then took a tall pole that was conveniently nearby and shooed her off the roof, where she lept down to the shed again, amazingly needing only two wing beats to break her fall. We tried the same thing with the pole and she jumped on the roof again. Then we managed to get her back on the shed, finally we were able to get her on the ground where there were no hiding spots. She frantically darted all over the place and we frantically tried to grab her. It was a battle of two backyards. Finally she was caught by the legs and wrapped in a blanket as quickly as possible. On the car ride home she was named Tispaa (tee-spah) meaning "quick feet" in Farsi.
Picture:
You can see one of her babies at the bottom of the pic.
Name: Peep
Age: 4 Years
Breed: Barred Plymouth Rock
How'd You Wound Up With this chicken: One of the original four chicks I bought to start off my flock.
Picture:
Age: 14 months
Breed: Silver Colored EE/Black Cochin Bantam
How'd You Wound Up With this chicken: I wanted two more chicks to raise and add to my flock, and I coincidentally found a place with four black chicks they were going to give away. I grabbed one chick with sleek black down, but as I pulled the chick from the cage, one of its siblings followed it, it's eyes saying "where are you going? don't leave!" I was at first going to pick another sleek black chick over this one as it was a dull grey and a bit fat and lazy looking. I felt bad though, and decided I'd take it anyway. This chick grew to be a beautiful rooster who isn't dull, fat, or lazy.
Pictures:
Name: Tispaa
Age: 7-12 months
Breed: Wheaten American Game
How'd You Wound Up With this chicken: A friend of mine said they found a chicken in their backyard that apparently arrived during the recent blackout at the time. They knew we kept chickens and offered that we keep her. We agreed and went to their house equipped with a sheet and boxes to catch what was described as a fast and flighty chicken. When we find the chicken, she is foraging under the bushes. We try to lure her out with scratch that we brought, and it works. But when we get within 5-6 feet of her she backs away. After about 20 minutes of uselessness it turns into a wild chase around the yard with a small little hen jumping high and flying with impressive accuracy for such a young bird. She was still peeping at the time. We tried throwing sheets on her which she would dodge with incredible speed. After a long time the poor hen had had enough and jumped up onto the fence to our horror. Surprisingly, she liked it up there so much she almost went to sleep. We were creeping up beneath her when she heard us and jumped off of the fence onto a shed in the yard opposite ours. It was literally a yard facing a yard. We were scared now, we thought we had lost the hen. But we had to try, we drove around the neighborhood and after 15 minutes of searching came to the right house. We knocked on the door, and waited longer than anyone would wait for someone to answer the door, but we were desperate to save this hen. Finally, a frail old chines woman came out. We told her everything, and she became very excited and led us through the house to the backyard where, surprisingly, the hen was standing in the exact same spot we left her 25 minutes ago. We tried coaxing her down, but she decided to take an enormous leap to the roof of the house. We then took a tall pole that was conveniently nearby and shooed her off the roof, where she lept down to the shed again, amazingly needing only two wing beats to break her fall. We tried the same thing with the pole and she jumped on the roof again. Then we managed to get her back on the shed, finally we were able to get her on the ground where there were no hiding spots. She frantically darted all over the place and we frantically tried to grab her. It was a battle of two backyards. Finally she was caught by the legs and wrapped in a blanket as quickly as possible. On the car ride home she was named Tispaa (tee-spah) meaning "quick feet" in Farsi.
Picture:
You can see one of her babies at the bottom of the pic.
Name: Peep
Age: 4 Years
Breed: Barred Plymouth Rock
How'd You Wound Up With this chicken: One of the original four chicks I bought to start off my flock.
Picture:
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Name: Roo
Breed: Easter Egger
Age: 11 wk
Aquired: I bought her as a chick from CAL ranch!
Breed: Easter Egger
Age: 11 wk
Aquired: I bought her as a chick from CAL ranch!
- Feb 8, 2012
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Name: Dragon
Breed: Modern Game Bantam
Age: 12 weeks
How acquired: Hatchery bird
Name: Stormy
Breed: Modern Game Bantam
Age: 12 weeks
How acquired: Hatchery bird
Neither is really *standing up* since I am just starting to work with them and they were nervous, but I love these guys! I have four more...blues, a lavender and a silver.
Breed: Modern Game Bantam
Age: 12 weeks
How acquired: Hatchery bird
Name: Stormy
Breed: Modern Game Bantam
Age: 12 weeks
How acquired: Hatchery bird
Neither is really *standing up* since I am just starting to work with them and they were nervous, but I love these guys! I have four more...blues, a lavender and a silver.
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- #146
- Feb 8, 2012
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I've not thought about clicker training but I bet it would work with these little birds. They are super smart, and they pick things up pretty fast. I'll have to work with them a bit this weekend 
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- Oct 30, 2011
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Name: Onyx
Age: 1 year or so old
Breed(s): Black Sumatra
Picture(s):
Age: 1 year or so old
Breed(s): Black Sumatra
Picture(s):
- Oct 30, 2011
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Name: Tuff
Age: 1 year or so old
Breed(s): Mottled D'uccle
How I ended up with him : We bought him from a local breeder when he was about 6 months old
Picture(s):
Age: 1 year or so old
Breed(s): Mottled D'uccle
How I ended up with him : We bought him from a local breeder when he was about 6 months old
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