This little roo was the "read me a story chicken". One couldn't cuddle up with a book without him finding out and DEMANDING to be read to:
then here's Roaster our EE, finally putting up with The Back of The Chair, took some convincing. If I were slimmer, younger, not so harried I wouldn't mind The Fat Chicken in The Lap while trying to work. Mostly she puts up a fuss until there's adequate music videos for her highness' entertainment. She loves Kelly Clarkson singing "Walkin After Midnight":
None of our chickens are house-chickens. But all of them are very good pets. They have their coop outside, but will seek social company from us. Its not about food. It about the lap. They don't like any snacks except cheese.
The other day I heard people talking about getting chickens, and one said something like, "...but after they don't lay eggs you have to slaughter them..." or "they dont lay eggs for more than a year, then you have to eat them...". Its shocking that people are brainwashed into believing the Food Production Poultry model of life. Its like they can only percieve of the CAFO model of getting eggs, as if that's all a hen is about. I hope they will be shocked the other way around when they meet their first backyard hen! OMG its a creature with a social life, and a personality, it talks to me, and its seeking a lap!
pgpoultry, the "arm" chicken looks like he's wearing that pink pouffy thing on his head......
Because no human people live with me, I don't have the opportunity to get photos of my lap chickens! Oh waaah!
I can't get the mini-doxies to take pictures - especially since they're JEALOUS of any chicken in my lap.
The cat gets a bit grumped out about it, too. (He's a Himalayan and therefore Royalty. He will even lay ON TOP of a dachshund buried under the lap robe on my lap!)
Love all these photos... I hope more folks post some!