I sure hope I'm not too new for this! I'm doing it anyway. Hope this thread gets to at least 100 pages!
so. here's my chicken story, about how chickens changed my life forever.
when I was 3 or 4 years old, we got chickens. we had a pretty little coop that my mom and I painted pink. yes. pink. (it was meant to make the heart of a 3 or 4 year old girl happy). needless to say, it did, and it also made my 6 RIR hens happy. I named all the chickens. I really don't remember ther names, but one of them was named Maisie. Maisie and the other hens all were attacked by foxes, racoons, you name it! the next year we got more chickens. one of these was named broody. they were a mix of a few dfferent breeds. there was a RIR, an Isa Brown like hen (maybe a star?) and a rooster. it was a white rooster. His name was Odette. we had an umm... sexing problem???
. anyway. This female named male chicken was the sweetest rooster there ever was. he would let me pick him up, did his job, was just a great rooster to have around the coop! he was living at a different farm where there was a guard dog that let the chickens sleep in herdog coop at night. well, my dad had a hound named Honey Badger (that dog didn't care!). he was a bad dog. he comped the head off my sweet, kind chicken! we were very sad. The next year, my dad got 2 chickens from the same guy who he got the rooster from. One was a black hen with white speckles, who we named Emily. the other was a pure white hen who we name Odette. I still have those hens to this day. Odette laid white eggs, and Emily laid brown eggs like the rest. Then my dad got 3 hatching eggs. we put them under a broody hen. 2 of those eggs hatched. We had a rooster, and a hen. I still have that hen (her name is Odile, you will hear more abpout her later). the rooster ended in a Shakespeare-worthy tragic romance story. the story is that one night a fox came. the rooster gave up his life for Emily. We had some more chicken deaths over that summer and winter, to the point of having 3 chickens (odile, odette, emily). The summer of 2018 we got even MORE chickens. 4 golden commets? buff orpington? isa brown? sex link of some sort? all of the above? I still don't know. I named them after disney princesses. Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, Aerial. Aurora was foxed in 2019. In 2019 we also paid $113 smackaroos at an auction for 12 chickens. I only have 2 of them left. we will get to the story of them later. we also moved the chickens to a new house. we made a house for them out of 2 coops we bought, and some plastic chicken "wire". the hens stayed in that make-shift "coop" all through that summer. that is the end of this post. I am too tired to write the whole thing tonight 
I'll tell part 2 in the morning.please tell me your chicken acquiring stories. I am waiting with listening ears and eyes!
so. here's my chicken story, about how chickens changed my life forever.
when I was 3 or 4 years old, we got chickens. we had a pretty little coop that my mom and I painted pink. yes. pink. (it was meant to make the heart of a 3 or 4 year old girl happy). needless to say, it did, and it also made my 6 RIR hens happy. I named all the chickens. I really don't remember ther names, but one of them was named Maisie. Maisie and the other hens all were attacked by foxes, racoons, you name it! the next year we got more chickens. one of these was named broody. they were a mix of a few dfferent breeds. there was a RIR, an Isa Brown like hen (maybe a star?) and a rooster. it was a white rooster. His name was Odette. we had an umm... sexing problem???
. anyway. This female named male chicken was the sweetest rooster there ever was. he would let me pick him up, did his job, was just a great rooster to have around the coop! he was living at a different farm where there was a guard dog that let the chickens sleep in herdog coop at night. well, my dad had a hound named Honey Badger (that dog didn't care!). he was a bad dog. he comped the head off my sweet, kind chicken! we were very sad. The next year, my dad got 2 chickens from the same guy who he got the rooster from. One was a black hen with white speckles, who we named Emily. the other was a pure white hen who we name Odette. I still have those hens to this day. Odette laid white eggs, and Emily laid brown eggs like the rest. Then my dad got 3 hatching eggs. we put them under a broody hen. 2 of those eggs hatched. We had a rooster, and a hen. I still have that hen (her name is Odile, you will hear more abpout her later). the rooster ended in a Shakespeare-worthy tragic romance story. the story is that one night a fox came. the rooster gave up his life for Emily. We had some more chicken deaths over that summer and winter, to the point of having 3 chickens (odile, odette, emily). The summer of 2018 we got even MORE chickens. 4 golden commets? buff orpington? isa brown? sex link of some sort? all of the above? I still don't know. I named them after disney princesses. Aurora, Belle, Cinderella, Aerial. Aurora was foxed in 2019. In 2019 we also paid $113 smackaroos at an auction for 12 chickens. I only have 2 of them left. we will get to the story of them later. we also moved the chickens to a new house. we made a house for them out of 2 coops we bought, and some plastic chicken "wire". the hens stayed in that make-shift "coop" all through that summer. that is the end of this post. I am too tired to write the whole thing tonight I'll tell part 2 in the morning.please tell me your chicken acquiring stories. I am waiting with listening ears and eyes!
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