Miracle- Hello! guinea/chicken crossbreed

[Spore]

Are we thinking miracle is a boy or a girl?

 

[OurLittleChickenFarm]

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I have no clue! It's killing me not to know and it's possible I'll never know. Isn't that sad.

 

[canada-goose]

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Um, no. Ostriches are MUCH too big to cross with chickens. A boy ostrich would squish a hen and a rooster could never mate with an ostrich.

I don't think guinea chickens lay, either.

 

[OurLittleChickenFarm]

Hello from Miracle,

Today I am 4 months old and it has been a very exciting week here on the farm. Mena decided I was ready to stay out of the cage so I can roost up high and go in and out just like the grown up birds. The big birds chase me sometimes and since I am not as strong as they are I have to be smarter. I fly up onto the edge of my baby cage and go down in it to get away. Also, they keep my high protein feed in the cage so I can get it. The other birds don't bother my feed in there.

One day Mena left the whole flock in the coop for a few hours. I got in one of the nest boxes to get away and my 2 buddies got in with me. They are my best friends and we don't mind being squished in there together. We stay together most of the time. They think of me as their big brother/sister and come running to me when we get seperated.

One day the two roosters got in a fight. Usually Boss, the RIR, just chases Warlock, the EE, away and they get along fair but this time was different. They just wouldn't stop fighting. Mena picked up Warlock and put him on the roost so the fighting stopped until the next morning. Boss got a bloody comb and Warlock lost half of his beard. Everything is peaceful now because Warlock went to live with a friend who has some lonely little chickie girls. He will be a lot happier there and we will not have to see them fight again.

I stay in the coop most of the time. It is really muddy outside and the sun has not come out for a long time.

Goodbye

(2 exhausted roosters taking a break from their fight)

(no more fighting - Warlock is rehomed)

 

[henryetta]

I absolutly love your stories!! and.........that is way too funny how the ding a lings lay beside eachother after wanting to kill each other... Dang chickens..lol Glad one got rehomed though, there can be 'peace in the valley' now

 

[donnie]

awwww.... how kool....


when will we get to see more pics of miracle

maybe i will get a miracle from my birds but i doubt im that lucky ....

 

[teach1rusl]

The three amigos...Miracle and his/her two half-siblings. I'm glad he's got buddies! Or she...lol. Still waiting to figure THAT one out.

 

[MareeZoCool]

Maybe you otta name them Danny or Danielle ~ as in Dan Quail (I think your chicks resemble bobwhites.)

 

[MareeZoCool]

Good little story.

 

[prov31gal]

i just looked up some pictures of full grown chicken and guinea crosses. uuuuuuuuggggly. they look like vultures, scary, maybe being sterile is for the best, but you know......most animals who cross and have sterile offspring, 1 out of however many thousands will not be sterile. thats pretty interesting. i wonder if someone really was dedicated to it, could create a non sterile hybrid. i mean, you can mate guineas with peacocks even, can a chicken and a peacock cross, whatother kinds of fowl can be crossed, i have to look this up! btw i love the stories!