PULL UP A CHAIR, AND LETS TALK ABOUT THE FREE CHICKENS YOU HAVE ACQUIRED!!!!!!!!!

Well, I once got a free purebred show-quality silkie. Here's the story.

I was in my favorite pet store, and they were selling adult silkies! So, I scraped together the money to get one. When I get him home, I learn that he has lice! I did y best to treat him, but he died because he had been infested for so long. When I told the employee's of the store, they promised to tell the store owner, and, a few weeks later, the store owner told e that she owed me a free silkie chick. I was so excited. So, the store owner brought me a very show-quality silkie, along with six others. I bought two silkies just because I liked them, and received my third one free.

That's the story of Freebie, my splash silkie.

 

I have a strict policy that I absolutely will not take any chickens off craigslist, from flea markets or auctions because of the disease factor; the risk of bringing nasties to my healthy flock is too great. I was, however, given an Easter Egger pullet by a friend as a gift over four years ago, but only accepted her because that friend hatched the chick from a breeder's eggs and her own flock had never had any respiratory illness. Even then, June was kept in a quarantine coop for two months until we knew she was okay to incorporate into a larger group. So, I have had only one gift chicken in the entire 7 years we've owned our own flock. June is still with me and is now going on 5 years old.