people with house chickens

[kyrose]

i love the last pic.he looks like he has a beer gut.

 

[specklesmom]

Romeo is a cutie!! Is that a stuffed animal he is standing on in the last two photos? He looks like he is demonstrating who is head of the household there....."Just TRY getting up you no good stuffed whatever! Romeo conquers all!!" And that is NOT a beer gut---that is his manly chest! He must have just taken a deep breath or something or maybe you didn't get the photo from his best angle.

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Romeo is too cute! I just love his colors! And it looks like he's telling the dog "These toys are mine, get your own!"

 

[dntd]

My rooster is in a time out and stuck in the bathroom, he attacked me this weekend after I let him stay with his girls, Hes a suck normally but this time he felt he was the man! I scooped him up out of the girls encolsure and back upstairs, butter butt is never going to see his girls again unless I want furtile eggs!

 

[iluvcks]

Morning Everyone

suburbanminifarm I'm not on daughters DSI anymore we were given a monitor that the cave men used
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(horse). I can sleep until ten because my kids are 13 and 10 and very good. I don't do it a lot but it is nice. Little secert, they let me nap too. But don't tell anyone.

kyrose I love Romeo. I wish more people posted pics on here. HINT HINT

He's a beautiful boy. The kids and I wish we could have a rooster here. They are so much more flamboyant than the hens. But alas we have been outvoted buy the jester( I mean king) of the castle. Of course the neighbors wouldn't like it much either.

dntd is your roosters name really butter butt or is that a nick name? That is one funny post.

Gabby laid her egg this morning in a milk crate in the closet in the living room and the d*** dog ate it. Gabby ruffled her feathers and squawked at him. I swear she was telling him off. All that hard work, for nothin.

 

[kyrose]

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yes speckles it is.that is his girlfriend.he gets very upset when the dog grabs it and makes it squeak and shakes it like a rag doll.its to funny.

 

[jojo54]

We have a house chicken named Lulu. Lulu is a GSL and was the lame runt. We got our girls (31 GSL) the end of June. In the fall we noticed two were lame and skinnier than the rest. We built a small enclosure for them and fed them extra food, treats and vitamins to strengthen them up. Lucy was able to go back the the big girls and now has a very little limp. We tried to intergrate Lulu but she got skinnier and just laid in the bushes. We realized that she wasn't getting much to eat because the others would peck at her and she couldn't get away easily with her lame leg.

We brought her into the house and made a cozy area for her in the corner of the kitchen. She didn't move around too much but ate more all the time. At first her eyes looked glassy and her feathers were rough feeling but as time went by she looked brighter-eyed and her feathers were getting smooth and silky. She started walking around some but was slow because she had to lift her foot quite high so she wouldn't step on her other foot and trip. We figured out it was probably her hip not her leg that bothered her because of how she was walking.

Lulu has gained some weight but still is very light compared to the other girls. She has a box in the garage where she sleeps at night. After the other girls started laying eggs, we wondered about Lulu. She started doing the rooster squat so I made her a nesting box in the corner of the closet. She started laying eggs and expects peanuts for a treat when she does.

She has a variety of foods that she really likes to eat - corn, peanuts, grapes, celery leaves, cukes, bean sprouts. She also shared my DH's peanut butter sandwich in the morning.

Since the weather has been nice, she stayes outside most of the day. She has the run of the whole yard and when she decides she wants in, she climbs/hops/flies up the back steps. She comes in whenever she wants to lay her egg, has her peanuts and then goes to the back door to be let out again.

We have tried to integrate her with the others because she seems to want to be in there with them but it doesn't last long and they start pecking at her so she wants out again. She does like sneaking into the coop to eat her fill out layer pellets though.

She is quite a smarty as she knows to stay in the kitchen and not come in the living room. She does sneak in on occasion when she is lonely and no one is paying her any attention. She also seems to know to come to the house every afternoon around 3:30 because we are sorting the produce from the grocery store. She likes to get her beak in the bags looking for grapes and other tasty tidbits before it is thrown out to the girls. She is quite vocal and likes to chat up a storm with me.

Here is a pic of Lulu when she looked sickly.

Here is a pic of Lulu looking healthier.

Here is a recent pic of Lulu laying in front of the fridge.

 

[kyrose]

aww lulu is a very pretty girl and is very lucky to have such a great family...

 

[Chick_a_dee]

I don't have any house chickens because of the dogs, *but*, my lovely EE hens like to flap-jump up at the front door to get a good view in the kitchen lol. They also camp out on the window sill. Some days I have to race them to the front door

 

[Chickie'sMoma]

my house chicken is now a ROOSTER! just hit his 1 year mark!

my boy is a bantam splash polish by the name of Chickie! being my first chick that i hatched i didn't know what to call him at first since i didn't know what gender he was till he started to crow! it took him over 3 months before he finally did. he was a solo hatcher, so for his first 2 weeks he had been all by his lonesome and always would call for me to come and cuddle with him, he never got along with other chicks so i kept him separated. he grew up in my 29 gallon fish tank as his brooder so every time i would walk by it in the mornings to get ready for work i would have to go by and pick him up and do some house keeping in his pen.

how cute in the mornings and after work to see him running back and forth trying to get my attention. even cuter when he started learning how to fly, then i needed to put a top on it so he wouldn't escape on a daily basis. (should have seen it when he would hear the plastic bags they put the deli cheese in-had to brace for impact or DUCK!

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i've brought him outside when the weather was warmer and let him scratch around some and he does fine on his own, but if i call for him he comes running to his name. loves to ride on my shoulder but tends to be a little shaky so i usually put my hand over his back to steady him and he gladly will allow me to. he has that perfect position on my arm that always relaxes him and he allows me to groom his neck and crest. he'll coo and chuckle while i'm doing it too! i love to hear him do it. i bring him upstairs to watch TV, cuddle and groom his back and crest. he'll sort of play with the dog when it gets into his face being 'nosy'.

he's good about not crowing early. if i haven't gone down to his pen in the basement to turn on the lights by 7:30am i will hear him calling for me to come wake him up and get his day started! such a wonderful boy! and certainly not like any other polish i have seen or raised so far! he is not flighty except when the dog has startled him. and his first thing is to fly to me and my shoulder for comfort.

Chickie at a couple months old on the back of my dining room chair

about a month ago strutting his stuff around the top of my broody's cage.