Have I lost it when I have determined that one of my chickens are um..

[GiddyMoon]

For some reason or another, God has always found it funny to surround me with special needs living beings. I have had many lil bus animals..when I was in my later teens I was hired to work at a private home for Autistic teen boys..I knew then there was a reason for it..move forward a few years..3 out of 4 of my kids are on the spectrum, and so is their father, he is undiagnosed..but it's there..this trend continued with more pets that end up at my door..all who have "special traits" ......we now have a "special" chick as well..and my better half said this morning..."I don't know Pumpkin, you always seem to attract the "special"...why would chickens be any different?" ...

 

[karlamaria]

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We are first time chick people, my daughter can tell every chck by there talk , they love her so much that they make all kinds of sounds, she knows like a mom what each one is by sounds from the other room lol

 

[mmaddie's mom]

"Special" really are special.

 

[Momagain1]

ok I'm gonna get ap ic of my "special" two tomorrow...lol one is so darn cute..but I swear she'd lick the cotton candy windows if she could...and the other one is so ugly it just "LOOKS IT"...

 

[critterranch]

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lol me too i can tell when i'm in the house who is making the noise. i thought i was the only crazy one nice to know i'm not the only one.

 

[Dowie]

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Where's the pics? I wanna see your special hens!

 

[mmaddie's mom]

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lol me too i can tell when i'm in the house who is making the noise. i thought i was the only crazy one nice to know i'm not the only one.

Not on BYC... we're all "special"!

 

[mrszlopez]

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I am in the same boat with attracting special animals. I have a rooster that was born completely blind, but thrives as well as the others. My mother has a kitten that was born with no eyes. A goat that hapenned to have stunted growth as well as arthritis and the list could go on for dayssss. I love all my "specials"

 

[Bengalcats1]

My little silkie must be Very special then.....she just sits there, no personality and doesn't do much, I wondered what's "up" there....but I find her adorable all the same, sometimes she just stares into space and wonder what she is thinking

 

[TreeHugger]

I bought a silkie hen at an auction last year. She was very underweight and infested with mites/lice when I got her. She spent 2 months in quarentine and I believe she is brain damaged. Luckily the majority of my flock are silkies and they don't pick on her. It took weeks of repeatedly showing her where the food, water and guiding her up the ramp into the chicken house before she got the hang of it. I have no clue how old she is and I don't believe she has ever laid an egg (at least I've never seen her on the nest). She has a permenant spot in my flock since I feel sorry for her and I don't think she would adjust well to a new environment.