Holy Dinah! Wow I bet you were furious - poor wee chickies to be stolen like thatI didn't announce it last week but I lost 2 of my favorite roosters. A naked neck who was the son of Big Boy and Blackie, who was half EE and half Japanese bantam. Lety had loaned them out for breeding purposes and they were stolen along with several of the hens that belongs to Lety's friends. I was furious but powerless to do anything about it.
Handled with extreme prejudice anyway!
Oh the cheek of them - what's got into people these days - sheesh - stealing chickens, cattle here, what's next? good grief
Well I have some ideas - surrounding throwing them on the barn floor tied up and let the peck their eyes out
Oh sorry Officer - he went into the horse's stall and the horse freaked out and trampled him - so sad (Good Truly....).
Ooooohhhh, I love it!Found her! Hiding up high - Bob said they love to fly....
Anyways here is the story:
Went to the feed mill this morning, and they have baby chicks - sooooo cute. But I don't need any more chickens ok?
But the owner at the mill told me 'I have ready to lay pullets here - seems the person who ordered them doesn't want them'.
Oh no I don't think so... well what kind? I asked
The owner told me: Red sex-link (oh, no won't get those), and Azur Blues
Darn - my kryptonite I wanted Azurs - but not POL pullets, I wanted chicks. Then I thought, hmmmm, well I won't have any issues selling eggs, oh why not I will get a couple. What's the harm.
So I said: OK I'll take 3 of them
And that is how I ended up with 3 wild as the west wind POL pullets who can really fly! Those Azures are Leghorn crosses so they can really fly well and they have floppy combs and wattles. Mine though look like they are splash, and one even has a topknot.
What I am EXTREMELY displeased with is the beaks on two of them, I don't know if they were cut back incorrectly or if it is cross-beak. But I am really annoyed, as to me if I have 2 out of the 3 with this anomaly then it is likely due to poor breeding factors or environmental factors.
I am glad I bought the poor things, they look a bit ratty but that is likely from transport, and they are scared to death of me, so likely never seen a human before.
Since I wasn't aiming to get any more chickens then I am now scrambling to house the poor wee lasses, but that is minor, their comfort is of the the utmost importance. I was showing them how I picked up and fed Fluffy so they could at least see that I wouldn't murder them. They are in the Summer House, I have no way to quarantine the suckers, so I hope to H E double L they don't carry anything (highly unlikely with the biosecurity on these poultry factories here), or that mine don't have anything to give them!
I am sooooo very glad I bought them and wish I could have bought the other 3 but with me not working at the moment I need to really save my moolah. But I am glad I got to get these three and if they do have cross beak it doesn't seem to be bothering them, and I can deal with filing a beak every so often. I just need to gentle them now, with any wild beast it's a slow process of desensitizing them to me, and showing them that food is always there for them - Is this what chicken math is?
Here is the background for these Azur Blues
https://layinghens.hendrix-genetics.com/en/our-brands/special-layer-breeds/azur/
Topknot girl I will call Topsy (she has a cross beak I think)
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The one with the black spotted beak and upright comb will be Turvy
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The one with the obvious cross beak I will call Twister (or twisted sister hahaha)
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They all look like they will have splash colour pattern.
Bad Kelly.....
And you didn't even need any enabling this time
“but mamm, that wound looks surprisingly like a 2x4 hit him!
Hey good idea. Dirt is a stallion, does not act like one but a stallion none the less. Everyone thinks stallions are mean. Let me throw them in Dirt's stall and stick a few peppermints in their pockets. Sorry officer. I told him he came from a public barn and had a biting habit. I do not know why he thought it was smart to go into his stall with a pocket full of peppermints.
No, Good Kelly. Through no fault of their own those beaks will need some form of tlc. I will think of those as rescues. Now, as for the flying, um, you saw that one of my Marshmallows now roosts in the tree right? Have fun, if any girls lay in your hay loft, it will be them. Good luck taming them. My Marshmallows are semi wild still and I had them since chicks. They will eat out of my hand but no touching is allowed willingly. I cannot reach under them to get a egg, they bite. If they are not bright enough to get on the big roost and are on the stall boards when I go to lock up the coop, well, they get carried to the coop to be locked up. They bite the entire way and angrily squawk. I think they like to bite me, every other night I have to pack at least one of them to the coop. They really have paid too much attention to Momma Hen. But oh those leghorn smarts, let's hope they inherited it, that alone is worth the biting. One of my Marshmallows alerted me to a unwelcome devil bird sitting on the power pole out back the other day. Her alert sent the whole flock running for cover and allowed me to get outside to shoo it away. It was bold, banging two kettle lids together did not phase it. I threw a water bottle up at it and almost hit it to make it fly off.Found her! Hiding up high - Bob said they love to fly....
Anyways here is the story:
Went to the feed mill this morning, and they have baby chicks - sooooo cute. But I don't need any more chickens ok?
But the owner at the mill told me 'I have ready to lay pullets here - seems the person who ordered them doesn't want them'.
Oh no I don't think so... well what kind? I asked
The owner told me: Red sex-link (oh, no won't get those), and Azur Blues
Darn - my kryptonite I wanted Azurs - but not POL pullets, I wanted chicks. Then I thought, hmmmm, well I won't have any issues selling eggs, oh why not I will get a couple. What's the harm.
So I said: OK I'll take 3 of them
And that is how I ended up with 3 wild as the west wind POL pullets who can really fly! Those Azures are Leghorn crosses so they can really fly well and they have floppy combs and wattles. Mine though look like they are splash, and one even has a topknot.
What I am EXTREMELY displeased with is the beaks on two of them, I don't know if they were cut back incorrectly or if it is cross-beak. But I am really annoyed, as to me if I have 2 out of the 3 with this anomaly then it is likely due to poor breeding factors or environmental factors.
I am glad I bought the poor things, they look a bit ratty but that is likely from transport, and they are scared to death of me, so likely never seen a human before.
Since I wasn't aiming to get any more chickens then I am now scrambling to house the poor wee lasses, but that is minor, their comfort is of the the utmost importance. I was showing them how I picked up and fed Fluffy so they could at least see that I wouldn't murder them. They are in the Summer House, I have no way to quarantine the suckers, so I hope to H E double L they don't carry anything (highly unlikely with the biosecurity on these poultry factories here), or that mine don't have anything to give them!
I am sooooo very glad I bought them and wish I could have bought the other 3 but with me not working at the moment I need to really save my moolah. But I am glad I got to get these three and if they do have cross beak it doesn't seem to be bothering them, and I can deal with filing a beak every so often. I just need to gentle them now, with any wild beast it's a slow process of desensitizing them to me, and showing them that food is always there for them - Is this what chicken math is?
Here is the background for these Azur Blues
https://layinghens.hendrix-genetics.com/en/our-brands/special-layer-breeds/azur/
Topknot girl I will call Topsy (she has a cross beak I think)
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The one with the black spotted beak and upright comb will be Turvy
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The one with the obvious cross beak I will call Twister (or twisted sister hahaha)
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They all look like they will have splash colour pattern.
Bad Kelly.....
