Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

[fluffycrow]

That little naked neck is insane, I swear. She wants to brood, but she doesn't want to brood, but she wants to act like she's brooding... I guess?? She was sitting in front of the nest boxes brooding (not in the nests, in front of them ), so I picked her up and held her up to the fence where the 'teenage' chicks I have growing out spend the day, and I said, "Is this what you want? This is what you get for brooding!"

I don't think I can adequately describe the dinosaur-esque, high-pitched screeching sound that emitted from that bird just as I finished that statement. I'll take that as a no?

The chicks are terrified of her, by the way. Not in the sense of she's a bigger, older, more dominant chicken, but in the sense of 'holy crap what the heck even is that'. All the way around, I could not stop laughing after these events unfolded.

I love her a dinosaur icon really

 

[fluffycrow]

Isn't she the only NN you have? What a broody icon

 

[Shabby Chic-Hens]

Hmm, well here are some names I like from the classics, personally, though some might be a bit obscure to go with the theme.

For pullets: Alice, Aurora, Briar Rose, Flora, Fauna, Merryweather, Ariel, Bianca, Anita, Perdita, Olivia, Belle

For cockerels: Trigger, Skippy, Triton, Sebastian, Scuttle, Bernard, Orville, Wilbur, Rolly, Chip

I just saw this!
Okay ! Cool! I already have an Ariel, and I had an Aurora and Belle (I don’t reuse names). I shall use them all!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Isn't she the only NN you have? What a broody icon

She is, yes! The good news is that if she spends enough time on this broodying stint, she should be 'cleared out' enough from the mixed flock roosters that I can pair her with one of my silkied Cochin roosters like I wanted to and hatch more little crazy broody naked neck dinosaurs.

 

[fluffycrow]

She is, yes! The good news is that if she spends enough time on this broodying stint, she should be 'cleared out' enough from the mixed flock roosters that I can pair her with one of my silkied Cochin roosters like I wanted to and hatch more little crazy broody naked neck dinosaurs.

Those babies would look insane. Although I do have a marketing idea

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Oh?

 

[fluffycrow]

Oh?

OK picture this. You make said silkied NN bantam cochin dinosaur. You come up with a stupid name. We translate it to Greek so it sounds fancy (and even more dumb, but people won't recognize it). You sell it on eBay as a rare breed with the tags: "blue egg gene" "auto sexing" "don't miss out! Limited number of eggs!"

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Hmm, I'd have to work on getting blue egg genes and an autosexing variety into them, though

What's the Greek word for dinosaur? That would probably suit them quite well

 

[fluffycrow]

Not so good as one would imagine. The word is dinosavros, spelt δεινόσαυρος in Greek

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Ooh, yeah, kind of similar to the English. But a cool name nonetheless! Maybe I'll just name one of them that instead.

...Here I am naming them already and I'm nowhere near even setting any eggs!