Odd looking packing peanut

[Mom2Twinz]

How cute is he? He is one lucky chick to have such a devoted human mama.

 

[highcountrychickens]

I LOVE your video! You should name him Gardner :lol

This whole thing should be a children's story!

 

[Etakeh]

It's pouring outside, with thunder and lightning and all that. Oddball doesn't like it. He wanted to come inside.

He's been up there for about half an hour now, doesn't seem interested in going anywhere else.

 

[m2wandc]

What exactly is "egg tooth" ??

I noticed my chicks looked like their beak was clipped and then a couple of days later their beaks looked normal???

 

[Etakeh]

The egg tooth is a little nub that is on the end of the beak of the chickie that helps them get out of the egg.

 

[sethsleader]

Hes a real cutie, cute video!

 

[m2wandc]

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It always looks like someone cut the tip of their beak off...or is it gone from breaking the egg and grows back quickly?

my silkies looked like someone cut off the tip of their beak and then a day or two later they had a sharp point again at the tip of their beak??? why is that?

 

[walbarbsa]

What a sweet chickie and what a devoted chickenmama you are. Loved the video.....

 

[Etakeh]

My little man is growing up! He crowed for the first time on Saturday. He's still small, a little smaller than the silkie bantams I've got, and he's still got some weird feathering around his head, but otherwise he's looking pretty "normal".

Here he is:

I've made him a little chicken condo, all the ladies are jealous of him now and hang out outside of it during the day. Of course, they still chase him off if he gets too close...but it's something.

In true family tradition, it's made mostly of "repurposed" materials. Metal frame from a delivery at work, zip ties left over from another project, the fencing from my original chicken enclosure (that was before I went to metal fencing because of escapee bunny). Even the rain cover...old shower curtain.

He seems to like it, as well. Thing is, the crowing won't please my neighbors, so I'm going to be trying some tricks I've found on this forum to quiet that aspect of him - starting having him sleep in the house in a carrier at night. I can put him out on my way out to work in the morning, so at least the neighbors will get that much more sleep.

I've got a few people at work who offered to take him if he gets too loud, but I can't see me doing that. He's family, now.

 

[cochinbantam-lover]

Amazing!!!!!! You are an awesome chickie mommy!!

That is a spoiled chicken and I love it!!

What a handsome little man he is