Random Flock Picture Time!

[Chicken Whisper101]

View attachment 1237776 I just have to post about this! About a year ago, we had hatched our first batch of chicks for the season. They were mostly all Asil, so they grew considerably in just a month! It was miserably cold that year, and we couldn’t spare any extra heat lamps to send them outside. So we placed a wire over the top. Later that week, no one was in the house all day. We came home, and there was chicken poop all over the kitchen floor...two of the month old chicks had somehow escaped! We though they’d be easy to catch, but no. They had begun to discover they had wings, and they didn’t want to be caught! We cornered one, but that other chick was still running. But he saw his “escape”. A window. He took off running and flying, with his feet down/in front of him the way chickens do. He smashed feet first into the window and sat dazed for a few seconds before we caught him, and when we did, he started “screaming”, terrified that he had been caught. After we put them back in their little pen, we discovered a TINY hole where the wiring on top didn’t go close enough to the heat lamp. Both chicks were OK, and we had no other escapees! We named the one who hit the window Oswald, Ozzy for short. He is pictured up top!

Very Pretty rooster.

 

[Mimi13]

I was picking cantaloupes from the garden this past summer and decided one of them was too small and probably wouldn’t have a very good taste so I gave it to the hens. After they had pecked a pretty good sized hole in it I split it into two halves, which really excited the girls. Obviously it excited my 13 month old grandson as well. He came straight over to the hens, bent down, picked up one of the halves and took a big bite. He did not want to give it back to them either. Of course I had to have a taste as well and it was wonderful. Needless to say, I won’t be tossing out the little cantaloupes anymore. Anyway, the hens had an awesome tasting cantaloupe, minus the few bites my grandson and I took. I don’t think they minded sharing though.

 

[Then I Will]

Hey Chickeroos,

I end up trading both of them in for 3 gorgeous hens! Now the family is up to 6
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How you ever ended up getting 6 hens out of 2 roosters just amazes me! Generally, roosters are hard to get rid of let alone sell or "trade in." That was one GOOD Deal I'll say. Haha You must be able to barter and haggle pretty well I'll assume.

 

[TheFluffyButt]

How you ever ended up getting 6 hens out of 2 roosters just amazes me! Generally, roosters are hard to get rid of let alone sell or "trade in." That was one GOOD Deal I'll say. Haha You must be able to barter and haggle pretty well I'll assume.

Well I've actually had 3 roosters, I traded 1 of them for a 4 month hen and the other 2 for 3 chicks. So 4 of my 6 hens were received from trades.

I think it's because the roosters were so tamed and obviously their incredibly good looks!! The most wild thing the roosters did was probably kikiroo at 4 in the morning, which is the main reason why I got rid of them.

Oh and the trades were done at a produce shop where the owner is a good friend of ours