My welsummer chick is a dinosaur.

[Bantamphantom]

 

[TimBaumann]

ahhhh thats so cute!!!!

Great pic!!

 

[ChickensRDinos]

ChickensRDinos approves of this photo. ROAR.

 

[McGobs]

my 7 yr old says that everytime they run up the yard. "Look dad...veloci-raptors!"

 

[Bantamphantom]

I think of chickens as little fluffy dinosaurs but my family just doesn't see it.

Point of interest: are the scales on chickens' feet dinosaur scales?

 

[ChickensRDinos]

"The origin of birds has historically been a contentious topic within evolutionary biology. However, most researchers now support the view that birds are a group of theropod dinosaurs that evolved during the Mesozoic Era.
A close relationship between birds and dinosaurs was first proposed in the nineteenth century after the discovery of the primitive bird Archaeopteryx in Germany. Birds share many unique skeletal features with dinosaurs.[1] Moreover, fossils of more than twenty species of dinosaur have been collected which preserve feathers. There are even very small dinosaurs, such as Microraptor and Anchiornis, which have long, vaned, arm and leg feathers forming wings. The Jurassic basal avialan Pedopenna also shows these long foot feathers. Witmer (2009) has concluded that this evidence is sufficient to demonstrate that avian evolution went through a four-winged stage.[2]
Fossil evidence also demonstrates that birds and dinosaurs shared features such as hollow, pneumatized bones, gastroliths in thedigestive system, nest-building and brooding behaviors."

quoted from this article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_birds

 

[Pullet Surprise]

Be afraid! Be very afraid!!! If you have any doubts, just listen in on one of our coops when Hannah & Helen are ready to lay!! Jurassic park. Love the pic

 

[tlkjaw]

Awwwwwwwwww