Derperella, the (weird) Faverolles, & Friends

[froggiesheins]

I randomly lost an EE pullet (link down below) so I'm looking for the right opportunity to get a SF. I need a new lap chicken because Lady has been very grumpy lately and Molly doesn't like the heat. Anyways, I hope the Fud Lady is having a good time providing for her chickies. 

I am sorry you lost your girl, I bet there is a SF out there somewhere with your name ion it!

 

[thechickenwhisperer24]

I am sorry you lost your girl,

I bet there is a SF out there somewhere with your name ion it!

I really hope so, thank you so much. If anybody has any ideas, please check the thread in my signature.

 

[NovaAman]

Oh, I am sorry! I hated when both of mine died... They are just so lovely...
I hope you find a few hens. You can not just have one... Like pringles...

 

[silver1313]

It took me a few months then I saw an ad on here and jumped right on it !!! My 6 babies are so awesome .. none derpy that i have noticed per se but so sweet and well behaved !!

 

[Just reebok]

Woohoo! How old? Be sure to post pictures

Day old chick shipping out from My Pet Chicken. I am getting one SF, one Australorp, one Red Star, and fingers crossed... A silver laced Wyandotte. If the candling goes well that is.

 

[ChirpyChick]

I don't have any SF yet, but I do have a pair of Buff Orps and a pair of Welsummer hens...and a Welsummer Roo. My Roo? HE'S the talkative one in my flock. Always talking to someone, some chick or someTHING...yesterday...he was talking to a stump. Yep, an honest to goodness stump. I just give him a pet and a piece of bread and say "Silly Tim"

Daisy, one of my wellie hens...she honks like Derp! Especially when she has a cricket or a grasshopper. She gets the Honka-honka-honka going on while she's chasing them through the yard. Lots of giggling going on then. Until Mama catches us being giggly. Then she fixes you with one of those chicken-glares about how totally improper giggling is. Her name is actually Aunt Pittypat and she acts it quite often. However, Aunt Pittypat has a bit of the Derpy skull twist thingy going on. I think the only thing it affects is how she runs...because she runs rather...off center? cattywompus? crooked even? She just does...and then there's more giggling and more chicken-glares

Oh well...for some reason I felt like sharing that

Missing Derp...and I hope Fud Lady doesn't stress out too much... We'll just sit and stare at things until she comes back.

~jr

 

[NovaAman]

My SF Loralie has been an evil thing that last few days. Evil to my chickenstock babies. That would be the SF cockerels I got. I think it is because she knows they are in her future, well one will be, and the other will be with Beulah. I think she is whipping them into shape and establishing she is boss for as long as she can be. LOL

 

[Nambroth]

So here's a question, I got some Welsummers three weeks ago and one has that same "twisted" face as Derp. Is there something that causes it, or is it just a random physical thing? I will try to get a picture later, but it's really quite the twisted beak/comb etc. It doesn't seem to interfere with anything, just looks goofy.

I wish I knew. I suspect it is either genetic or a nutritional deficiency in the hen that laid the eggs. The health of the hen carries on to the eggs she lays, of course, and it's something that we often overlook when we get weird chicks. If you have more than one bird with this problem, and you know the breeder, it may be wise that the hen (and or roo!!) not be bred anymore if it's throwing a lot of twisted chicks. Though Derp cracks us up, I would never try to intentionally get a 'derpy' result. We should all strive to breed healthy chickens.

 

[Nambroth]

thank you FROGGIESHEINS!!! Any help is greatly appreciated. Thought I'd check in on the Derperella thread for a smile. As usual, I found several!

I've responded too, in case it helps. Coho had a secondary infection but we were able to take care of it. It was the entire side of her foot! It was scary, but keeping a cool head can help. She is completely healed now. It can be done!

 

[7L Farm]

Derperella's life growing up as a 'defective' pullet was no less adventurous. As she continued to grow, it became more and more clear to her people that nothing about her was going to be normal.

Even her feathers were coming in the 'wrong' colors! While her people had no great ambitions about her quality, it was no less amusing that poor Derp couldn't even grow normal Salmon Faverolles colors.

Much more disturbing was the fact that Derp's entire skull seemed to be slightly askew. Yes... as she grew it was more and more clear that her face was indeed twisted to one side.

Soon, the other pullets were reaching an age where the terrible pecking order was starting to be laid out.
Surely this deformed, runty and mentally handicapped chicken would be as low on the list as one could get! Her people were actually quite scared the other chickens would sense something wrong with her and beat the tar out of poor Derp.

But... no!
Derperella actually simply didn't seem to care about things like pecking orders. She mistook chest bumping for saying hello, and would affectionately preen the other chicken's face. When they'd peck her so say "I'm boss of you!", Derp would sit there and stare into space. Their disciplines had no effect on her! And so it was that Derp was not only high on the totem pole... she seemed to be outside of it entirely.

DERP.

I just found out about this thread the whole nine yards. You shoudl of used this picture for the calander.This chickens got it going on. I have a crooked toes hen that I should of fixed & everyone told me to cull her. Did I heck no.