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[casportpony]

Quote: Did you know that I saw pictures of your turkeys with your kids and loved them?

 

[room onthebroom]

Don't you hate those that hide thier "sexual orientation" from you?


I have a Tom that I thought was a hen until last week when I saw it trying to mount a hen and its normal 1/4 inch snood was 4 inches long! I had even made a deal to sell it to someone as a hen!

Ok, this is a little embarrassing, but DYK our very first 2 chickens were hatched as a part of a homeschool project? We did a lot of research, built a bator from recycled stuff lying around the house & ordered red & black sexlinked eggs so we'd know immediately if we could keep them. Problem was that the lady we ordered the eggs from sent Black Sexlinks & ISA Browns. When the ISA hatched we saw no white dot, thought she was a pullet & named her Bianca. After 20+wks we were waiting for her to lay an egg & there was even one day that I was convinced she was about to lay in front of me. In my defense, I still thought we'd ordered Red Stars, plus 'she' was an extremely gentle roo (unlike the BSL cockerel that hatched with her & wanted us all dead.) The BSL had been crowing for weeks & when Bianca finally crowed her rusty, old Desoto horn, crow, we were shocked & had no idea what it was. We were all looking at each other like, "Wha? What the? What was that? Was that a crow? Why is she crowing?" (I told you this was embarrassing!) Weirder still the two roo's were bonded bff's. When we finally had to rehome them (I live in a rooster free zone) we found a nice, big farm that would take them both. I'm sure the people on the farm thought we were nuts because we told them her name was Bianca & kept telling her what a pretty, pretty girl she was.

 

[Phage]

I have an even more embarrasing story.
My first "real" (as in incubator" ) hatch was of a mixed set of purebred eggs from eBay. Got a great hatch rate and relatively few roosters which were rehomed.
The kids got really attached to the girls including to a pair of gold penciled hambergs that we thought were girls. They were identical. We knew little about chickens though.

Then one of the hambergs started to crow. A full bodied blood curdling blast that any giant beast would have been proud of. We could not keep him.
So when I told the kids that the bird would need to be rehomed they were not happy at all.

A good vet friend of mine (fellow crazy chicken lady and silky lover) said that she castrated her own pet rooster and offered to do the same for us.
So we got the bird asleep and went to look for the testes but found none. Not on either side!!

Then she said "this is not a rooster", but it was barley awake before it was foghorning again.

It was a female (now we know that the males look very different to the females). My friend told me that she knew of a farm that it could go live on so that is where she went.
Turns out the hen was one of theses females that start crowing if there is no rooster about. We live and learn!!

 

[BullChick]

No, I didn't know.
DYK my sister knocked me out with a slingshot and stale jellybean?

 

[Phage]

No, I didn't know.
DYK my sister knocked me out with a slingshot and stale jellybean?

Wow -how big was the jelly bean (or maybe I should be asking how big was the sling shot?? )??

 

[BullChick]

IDK. It was dark, and her good luck. The slingshot was taken from her immediately.

 

[Phage]

IDK. It was dark, and her good luck. The slingshot was taken from her immediately.

And I trust the jelly bean shaped ROCK was not found ..........

 

[BullChick]

That was found. It was black.

 

[ocap]

No, I didn't know.
DYK my sister knocked me out with a slingshot and stale jellybean?

DYK we has a circus act, my sister was the one that stood by the wall while my brother and I would throw darts.

 

[BullChick]