- Feb 23, 2014
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Last week, as I was waking up with a cup of coffee, I looked out my door towards my chicken run and saw a chicken outside the run. At first I was like "Oh crud! Betty got out!" because at first glance it looked like my Golden Laced chicken Betty.
But then I realized that it was smaller, tail feathers shaped wrong, and of course Betty is molting like crazy right now.
So someone's chicken decided to come investigate mine. It kept walking all around the chicken run looking for a way in. My rooster, Nugget, who is also a Golden Lace was making all sorts of sounds. My Cinnamon Queens made a lot of sqwaking sounds at it.
I stepped outside with some scratch and it ran quickly away, making squwaking sounds of it's own. So it's real skittish of people. I spread some scratch down, and for almost a week now it's made itself home just outside our chicken run.
Today our schedule and the weather finally made it possible for me to let my chickens free range. The strange chicken came right up to mine. Seemed obvious it wants to join the flock. Not too many confrontations were made.
Finally, it ran into the chicken run and that's where it is now with my other chickens. There's some pecking going on, and Nugget just tried to mount it (it didn't like that). But otherwise not too bad.
I took some pictures of it. I have no idea what the breed is or if it's a hen or a roo (hope it's not a roo). It's a lot smaller than my Golden Lace or my Cinnamon Queens.
Here it is:


It's tail feathers are shaped like a axe head in a wedge.
Here's my roo, Nugget:

And my some of my Cinnamon Queens:

But then I realized that it was smaller, tail feathers shaped wrong, and of course Betty is molting like crazy right now.
So someone's chicken decided to come investigate mine. It kept walking all around the chicken run looking for a way in. My rooster, Nugget, who is also a Golden Lace was making all sorts of sounds. My Cinnamon Queens made a lot of sqwaking sounds at it.
I stepped outside with some scratch and it ran quickly away, making squwaking sounds of it's own. So it's real skittish of people. I spread some scratch down, and for almost a week now it's made itself home just outside our chicken run.
Today our schedule and the weather finally made it possible for me to let my chickens free range. The strange chicken came right up to mine. Seemed obvious it wants to join the flock. Not too many confrontations were made.
Finally, it ran into the chicken run and that's where it is now with my other chickens. There's some pecking going on, and Nugget just tried to mount it (it didn't like that). But otherwise not too bad.
I took some pictures of it. I have no idea what the breed is or if it's a hen or a roo (hope it's not a roo). It's a lot smaller than my Golden Lace or my Cinnamon Queens.
Here it is:
It's tail feathers are shaped like a axe head in a wedge.
Here's my roo, Nugget:
And my some of my Cinnamon Queens: