LGBTQ+ Poultry Keepers

[Tre3hugger]

Spearmint. She is the only bird that likes being held, and she is very spoiled. If she sees something she wants, she will fight for it. That is why she is at the top of the pecking order, even above my cockerel.

Nice. What breed is she? Got a pic?

I'm gonna go do a photo shoot with the new babies!

 

[jolenesdad]

ARGH I’m annoyed I intended to split some of these chicks but Murray McMurray doesn’t mark males.

annoying.

 

[Ihavesomechickens]

Nice. What breed is she? Got a pic?

I'm gonna go do a photo shoot with the new babies!

She is an Easter egger.



Edit: changed it to a better, more recent picture.
Photo shoot, that sounds like fun.

 

[jolenesdad]

ARGH I’m annoyed I intended to split some of these chicks but Murray McMurray doesn’t mark males.

annoying.

On the plus side all 31 arrived healthy and active.

 

[ChristinLewin]

That's what people do. It's how we identify and relate to one another. It's not like you can just NOT label things, our whole brains are programmed to find patterns efficiently.

It's not like you can have a conversation like "Hello! What do you do for a living?" "Oh, I work." "Oh I too work for a living! We are normal humans aren't we?" "Yes we are.".

Instead we divide and label and then define some more, because that's just kind of how language works. It's a balance between strict definitions and evolution of language that makes it so when I say "I'm bi, I'm a dom, I'm a drag queen" or even "I'm a farmer" or "I've got a wife" or "I love God" we know what the other person is saying and how it relates to us. And leaving things unlabeled makes it harder to relate to one another. If I don't say "I'm bi and poly" you would never know if I'm someone whose life experiences you could relate to, or if you're attracted to me you could never know if there's even a chance I could be attracted back, or even if I'm someone you want to be friends with because your religion forbids it.

For that matter, a lack of labels tends to cover up the existence of minorities and make it harder for them to relate to one another. It's easy to say "intersex people are just a rare anomaly" when you don't know that 2 out of every 100 people are intersex. And we can't know how many there are if we don't define it somehow. Gay marriage wouldn't be a thing if a lot of people hadn't been able to stand up and say "I'm gay". The recent court decision protecting our right to not get fired couldn't exist without defining who we are.

We wouldn't get very far without labels for things, as confining as they can be sometimes. The nice thing is, though, we can always change our mind, make new labels, or change old ones if we need to.

I like you a lot.

 

[Tre3hugger]

On the plus side all 31 arrived healthy and active.

Wow, we're 56/56 today!

 

[jolenesdad]

Wow, we're 56/56 today!

I actually was impressed. In all my shipped chicks I’ve never received a box that still had grow gel in it. This one did.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Haha, thanks @ChristinLewin .

@jolenesdad that chick with the afro is adorable and silly looking. I don't think I've ever seen a hatchery mark males/females? Always a relief when they all arrive alive and healthy. <3

Today I have to finish my cornhole board. My tool batteries were plugged into the wrong outlet yesterday and didn't charge. (We have a broken GFCI on one outlet that gets fiddly with weather changes.) I didn't notice until it was too late. But I fixed it so they would charge overnight.
Then I have to bake bread buns with mask/gloves/hairnet. Bleh. The things we do for the people we love.

 

[Tre3hugger]

Here's the new guinea keet babies! 10 mixed. I count 5 white, 2 pied and either 3 regular or 2 regular 1 lavender. ALL SUPER ADORABLE.

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

bedroom preferences?

Sexual orientation is not a preference, it is what it is. Assuming you are straight could you just prefer to change that?