Orps must have more feather follicles than other breeds to look so fluffy. What amazed us was how small a chicken body is without feathers. After a bath we can see how small a Silkie really is!
Oh, poor thing. Can't our chickens at least be comfortable before they're culled and processed?
Yes, very sadOh, poor thing. Can't our chickens at least be comfortable before they're culled and processed?
My grandparents tried meat chickens (broilers maybe?) one year. These ones were bred to only grow in about half of their feathers, maybe even less. They looked absolutely miserable. They never did meat chickens again after that.
. Cornish Cross broiler/meat chickens are bred to grow abnormally FAST to process them at 6 to 8 wks old. Barbaric! Unfortuately those are the chicken meat sold in supermarkets, restaurant menus, or fast food drive-thru's. Yuck!
Oh no, that spot is getting blocked. I now have a nightmare. It involves a whole row of silkies plus some of my big girls all lined up in the back at the same time. They would do it too first chance they got.Sounds very much like the slavic domovoi including the tendancy to be grumpy and play tricks. Maybe it's a common figure in various lore ? Or it made it's way through Finland.
I'm not sure that's a good idea... Momma hen's spirit will just make them find another hidden spot. Better a hidden spot that you know, than a spot you have no clue about.
When Merle last came out of broodiness five weeks ago and started looking for a place to lay on top of our 8 feet high wooddtack, at the very bottom that's utterly unreachable, my partner had the excellent idea of making a nest on an intermediate platform.
He knew what would happen.
It just took longer than we expected - five weeks not sitting is her record in more than a year.
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Here's a frizzle naked neck
And when I put my head down on my knees (sooo tired), they all crowded around and groomed my hair. They're so sweet. Until they start pecking hard 
Such pretty mugs, all of them
