Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[HiEverybirdy]

I've got some bad news for you. The one on the right certainly isn't a dog.

Shucks, the shelter said she's a bona fide Bat-Eared Nipplehund, and we never thought to question it. She does look part barracuda at times.

I saw her gray mug on the shelter's social media, and it looked like she needed saving. Months later, we came up on a breeder's waitlist for a black mouth cur puppy. We didn't mean to enlist the old lady to help raise him, but after a week of dirty looks, she forgave us for bringing him home and decided she loved him, or at least loves the taste of his neck rolls.

Fortunately she laid down the law when he was small. At double her weight, he gives as good as he gets.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Dog tax doesn't count. In fact you lose all tax benefits if what you post aren't dogs at all.

Sounds like I may be in trouble with the tax man. Allow me to bribe you with a minute and a half of the Peckscavator digging a landslide-worthy trench into the side of a hill.

 

[HiEverybirdy]

I'm a bit concerend now and wondering if this lack of knowledge on the matter of a creatures sex is responsible for the lack of success many seem to have with male chickens.
I wonder, who can give me a reasonably comprehensive list of the differences between a male and a female chicken?
It's not as easy as one might think.

I wouldn't know where to begin, but hey, we're all kinds of confused around here. Exhibit A: Pinkie the Hen.

 

[Shadrach]

I wouldn't know where to begin, but hey, we're all kinds of confused around here. Exhibit A: Pinkie the Hen.

Does she lay eggs?

 

[Molpet]

I'm a bit concerend now and wondering if this lack of knowledge on the matter of a creatures sex is responsible for the lack of success many seem to have with male chickens.
I wonder, who can give me a reasonably comprehensive list of the differences between a male and a female chicken?
It's not as easy as one might think.

in keeping with dog to mean male, which is a fact
some people consider a chicken to be a female, which is just weird... lol

 

[HiEverybirdy]

Does she lay eggs?

Not since late 2022. Then she grew out her wattles and comb and started crowing.

However, I think I figured out the difference: around here, if you're a male chicken, Stilton will kick you.

Stilton doesn't kick Pinkie. Ergo, Pinkie isn't a male chicken. This diagnostic is how I know I'm also not a male chicken.

 

[Shadrach]

in keeping with dog to mean male, which is a fact
some people consider a chicken to be a female, which is just weird... lol

Isn't it just.

 

[fluffycrow]

Thankfully the English language has a different word for both chicken sexes, as well as an all-encompassing one. Don't know why this doesn't hold true for dogs. In Greek it's the opposite. What an amazing thing, languages are.

I am way overdue on tax after today

 

[Shadrach]

Don't know why this doesn't hold true for dogs.

It does. A female dog is called a bitch.
The correct term to include both sexes is canine.

 

[Shadrach]

Foxes. Female=Vixen, male=dog or tod.