cinnamoncockatiel
Crowing
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Entry 2.
This is Quito, short for Chiquito. He was originally named Chiquita until I heard crowing haha. Quito is also the capital of Ecuador. Quito is half Serama half D´Uccle and is 8 months old.
Quito´s life~
I found 2 eggs in a hidden nest, and 1 was very developed and the other not at all. The undeveloped egg was eaten. The developed egg was hatched under a broody D´Uccle hen. The chick hatched, and now the chick is Quito! The hen immediately decided she did not want to raise chicks, only hatch and sit on them. So I took Quito under my wing (pardon the pun), and everyday I thought please be a pullet Quito. After a few weeks he was a definite cockerel. He lived in a small brooder, but mostly in my pocket and hands. He had a stuffed turkey who he thought was his ma along with me. After a few weeks I got him a sewn chicken to replace the turkey and he screamed his lil´ head off for an hour. So I gave him back the turkey. And a few weeks later he started to attack and mount his turkey, I took it out and he seemed to be delighted the stuffed turkey was gone. He slowly started to become an outdoor cockerel and soon he moved into his own very large dog crate outside. Soon after he moved in with my flock. Than he decided he hated chickens and ran to me screaming and crying. I left him in the run and he adjusted to the chickens. But then he decided he is a duck obviously. And he stayed in the duck´s part of the run and ate and lived with them. He also had his own swing, and would soar all day long. Quito was being trained since he was a chick. He learned to climb trees, peck bells, fly on to your outstretched arm, and he even tried sparkling water a few times.
Sadly, Quito needed to be re~homed because I had too many roosters. It took months to find him a new home but now he lives at an animal rescue with his brothers (who hatched many months after him). I miss him a lot.
He now swings, climb trees, and lives on a farm with alpacas, guineas, turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, pigs, sheep, and many more animals. He has a few Great Pyrenees watching over all the animals and him.
This is Quito, short for Chiquito. He was originally named Chiquita until I heard crowing haha. Quito is also the capital of Ecuador. Quito is half Serama half D´Uccle and is 8 months old.
Quito´s life~
I found 2 eggs in a hidden nest, and 1 was very developed and the other not at all. The undeveloped egg was eaten. The developed egg was hatched under a broody D´Uccle hen. The chick hatched, and now the chick is Quito! The hen immediately decided she did not want to raise chicks, only hatch and sit on them. So I took Quito under my wing (pardon the pun), and everyday I thought please be a pullet Quito. After a few weeks he was a definite cockerel. He lived in a small brooder, but mostly in my pocket and hands. He had a stuffed turkey who he thought was his ma along with me. After a few weeks I got him a sewn chicken to replace the turkey and he screamed his lil´ head off for an hour. So I gave him back the turkey. And a few weeks later he started to attack and mount his turkey, I took it out and he seemed to be delighted the stuffed turkey was gone. He slowly started to become an outdoor cockerel and soon he moved into his own very large dog crate outside. Soon after he moved in with my flock. Than he decided he hated chickens and ran to me screaming and crying. I left him in the run and he adjusted to the chickens. But then he decided he is a duck obviously. And he stayed in the duck´s part of the run and ate and lived with them. He also had his own swing, and would soar all day long. Quito was being trained since he was a chick. He learned to climb trees, peck bells, fly on to your outstretched arm, and he even tried sparkling water a few times.
Sadly, Quito needed to be re~homed because I had too many roosters. It took months to find him a new home but now he lives at an animal rescue with his brothers (who hatched many months after him). I miss him a lot.
He now swings, climb trees, and lives on a farm with alpacas, guineas, turkeys, geese, ducks, chickens, pigs, sheep, and many more animals. He has a few Great Pyrenees watching over all the animals and him.
