Most Unique Fowl Contest - Ends 7/1/2024 - Winners announced!

[Susan Skylark]

This is another mutant quail, probably homozygous silver. Can’t stand up straight and shakes like he has Parkinson’s. Zips around like a windup toy and gets stepped on a lot.

 

[Barnette]

This is "Einstein"
Just hatched- came from two black mixed breed parents. Maybe we should call it "mongrel" ? Geez- look at that hair do! What a total mess! Believe it or not it was actually dry when I took these!

Just checked on it in the brooder if I hadn't of taken a picture of that mess you'd have never known how ridiculous that guy looked previously! Totally normal and fluffy cute now. But only a hair do a mother could love on that one! Tee-hee!

If anyone can think of a good caption for these I'm all ears!

OMG adorable Einstein is a great name

 

[Barnette]

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This is another mutant quail, probably homozygous silver. Can’t stand up straight and shakes like he has Parkinson’s. Zips around like a windup toy and gets stepped on a lot.

Poor baby

 

[The Coop Crew]

This is my sweet cross beak Dorothy! We’ve had her since she was about a day old! She cannot eat normally so we make her mash three times a day!

 

[GlicksChicks]

This is Cyclops, a chick I believe would've been a Buckeye, hard to tell when they are wet.

This chick would've hatched out on April 10, 2024 but it was not able to hatch because of it's obvious deformities. I opened up the egg to see what was wrong after all his siblings hatched and I found out pretty quick. The chick breathed a couple times and then died in my hands.

He had a completely exposed brain, 1 eye in the middle of his head and 1 on each side (3 in total), and 2 beaks which appear to be scissor beaks. He is a rare case of "Siamese twins". Taxidermists actually add a second head onto chicks to make it seem like they were siamese twins, but I got the real deal. That was a weird day.

Now I need to find someone who can preserve this chick for me so I can have the specimen as a memory of a genetic oddity.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Next entry would be this little guy. He is a frizzled Cochin and a mismatched crazy quilted pattern of a bird. The Sweetest little guy though! We absolutely love him!

For your viewing pleasure- "no name"

But definitely open to name suggestions lol!

You should call it Spike

 

[StinkyAcres]

This is Laguna, my Muscovy with heterochromia - both of her eyes are brown and blue.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

This is Cyclops, a chick I believe would've been a Buckeye, hard to tell when they are wet.
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This chick would've hatched out on April 10, 2024 but it was not able to hatch because of it's obvious deformities. I opened up the egg to see what was wrong after all his siblings hatched and I found out pretty quick. The chick breathed a couple times and then died in my hands.

He had a completely exposed brain, 1 eye in the middle of his head and 1 on each side (3 in total), and 2 beaks which appear to be scissor beaks. He is a rare case of "Siamese twins". Taxidermists actually add a second head onto chicks to make it seem like they were siamese twins, but I got the real deal. That was a weird day.

Now I need to find someone who can preserve this chick for me so I can have the specimen as a memory of a genetic oddity.

Very disturbing. Although, maybe if it’s brain wasn’t so exposed, you could have had a two headed pet. People pay a lot of money to see weird chickens.

 

[GlicksChicks]

Very disturbing. Although, maybe if it’s brain wasn’t so exposed, you could have had a two headed pet. People pay a lot of money to see weird chickens.

I would feel bad for it. It wouldn't be able to be kept with other chickens because it would be bullied.

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

Don’t let her small size fool you, that bird in the middle is my most important hen. In a world of brown and cream egg layers, and with my Americana “pullet” turning out to be a boy, Robin is something special. You can’t tell by the feathers, but she lays blue eggs.