Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[kattabelly]

Hatching egg sourcing tax: the least photogenic chicken ever

 

[Mother of Chaos]

Hatching egg sourcing tax: the least photogenic chicken ever
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But, but, she's lovely! In a pale and interesting way! The Wednesday Addams of the chicken world.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Hatching egg sourcing tax: the least photogenic chicken ever
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Your chicken needs to lay off the sauce

 

[kattabelly]

But, but, she's lovely! In a pale and interesting way! The Wednesday Addams of the chicken world.

I'm really not sure if this one is a he or a she yet! I've been around adults but never raised pea-combed chicks before and I'm not sure how red it should be at 8 weeks old. Initially I was leaning male because this one is so chonky and very outgoing. They're still a total cuddlebug but very polite about it, unlike the Fayoumi pullet - a famously flighty breed - who likes to surprise me from behind by landing on my head.

I think they're gorgeous anyway.

Your chicken needs to lay off the sauce

That squinty eye was caused by another chick (that Fayoumi!) pecking it - luckily it's just cosmetic and doesn't seem to have damaged the actual eyeball at all.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I'm really not sure if this one is a he or a she yet! I've been around adults but never raised pea-combed chicks before and I'm not sure how red it should be at 8 weeks old. Initially I was leaning male because this one is so chonky and very outgoing. They're still a total cuddlebug but very polite about it, unlike the Fayoumi pullet - a famously flighty breed - who likes to surprise me from behind by landing on my head.

I think they're gorgeous anyway.

That squinty eye was caused by another chick (that Fayoumi!) pecking it - luckily it's just cosmetic and doesn't seem to have damaged the actual eyeball at all.

Well, if a cockerel, I guess he could be Edward Sparkledude, the guy from "Twilight"

 

[kattabelly]

Well, if a cockerel, I guess he could be Edward Sparkledude, the guy from "Twilight"

Think I'll continue to let my chickens name themselves, but thanks for the suggestion

 

[rural mouse]

I'm really not sure if this one is a he or a she yet! I've been around adults but never raised pea-combed chicks before and I'm not sure how red it should be at 8 weeks old. Initially I was leaning male because this one is so chonky and very outgoing. They're still a total cuddlebug but very polite about it, unlike the Fayoumi pullet - a famously flighty breed - who likes to surprise me from behind by landing on my head.

I think they're gorgeous anyway.

That squinty eye was caused by another chick (that Fayoumi!) pecking it - luckily it's just cosmetic and doesn't seem to have damaged the actual eyeball at all.

At 8 weeks, that's a pullet.

 

[kattabelly]

At 8 weeks, that's a pullet.

Just a friendly fatty then!

Wednesday might work as a name. That's the day she hatched on, I think.

 

[kattabelly]

53 minutes after sunset and I currently have four pretty much fully grown pullets asleep in one nest box and a teenager making forlorn goose noises from on top of my head.

How's everyone else's evening going?

 

[notabitail]

53 minutes after sunset and I currently have four pretty much fully grown pullets asleep in one nest box and a teenager making forlorn goose noises from on top of my head.

How's everyone else's evening going?

I don't know, evening hasn't happened yet here (Texas).