She is the SWEETEST bird.. I am a milk test verifyer for DHI california. last summer I got a bright idea to offer my services to people who have milking livestock (you know what its like to want to go out for a weekend but you have chores to do) so anyway I charge a resonable rate of 2.50 per animal milked per milking and then since gas is so high here I charge a gas fee or 50 cents per mile per trip after the first 10 miles per day.... OK so I was milking for this lady who lives about 30 miles from me so she could go moose hunting. she was gone for like 2 weeks.... anyway my little girl went with me frequently and she fed the chickens while I milked the goats. Polly would come to her and she would pick her up and pet her every day. (she NEVER had to chase this chicken). so the day that we finished the job she says to me MOM I wish I could take Polly home. I said I understand but we have no place to put her. she said mom we have that old guinea pig set up couldnt we put her in there? I said yeah but we would have to ask the owner if we could have her.... so any way I took this one chicken as a partial payment for the milkings. My daughter uses her for show in 4-h because she is SOOOOO calm... I go to clean out her caage and she hops out and cleans the floor up in my rabbit barn... she is gentle and sweet.....
when we first got her she was a singlton chicken... she was in our garage. and she was LOANLY...... she would CROW like a rooster we could hear her in the garage.. all the way in the living room upstairs. it was nuts... so we ended up getting one m more and named her eva. she is a black sex-link.
its funny cause my hubby who says he does not like my animals would make me laugh... he would be in the garage working on some dude project... I would hear him yelling at the chicken to shut up..... i would LUAGH... one day he was in there I hear the chicken crowing and chirping (this is before we got the second one) hubby is in there he yells accross the garage and says "brack, brack, brack, for @@#$ sake POLLY, SHUT THE #$!! up" I about peed my self laughing.
Oh BTW I have my 2 chickens in a human baby play pen. they have a plastic courugated floor (the kind of material that signs are made of) I use pune shavings.I will try to get a photo for you all. they were fighting, one is considerably smaller than the other and was very agressive with the food. so I had the hubby build a divider and two nest boxes so the girls can still see each other (which keeps them quiet) they love thier nest boxes and I see them chillin there frequently. they drink from rabbit water bottles. I clean thier houses about 1X a week. they get lotsa pampering meal worms, red wigglers, and crickets. and some house scraps. layer crumble, oyster shell, and scratch. they love anything GREEN!!!! and my favorite to give them is cooked spagetti it makes me laugh.
I have rabbits to but I am quickly learning that the chickens really offer me something that the rabbits DONT (EGGS!!!!!)plus the chickens are cleaner.... seriously rabbits are dirty animals... they make a hugh mess.....
anyway I am so excited about getting my 33 button quail today I only was able to sleep 4 hours.... now I am up reading more BYC!!!!
