Show Off Your Chickens And Ducks! - September 2nd 2019 *CHAT THREAD*
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Weirdo.
We bought 6 EEs the first week of April. First night home, I told my GF ... I'm afraid this one's not going to make it . FREAK-OUT!!! She wanted to call the farm store NOW (9:00 pm) Call a vet! DO SOMETHING! I explained as best I could that sometimes newly hatched chicks just don't thrive (for all the good THAT did)
The reason for all this gloom and doom histrionics and my somber diagnosis? The other 5 chicks were peacefully resting, crouched down on their feet like little fuzz balls. This one was lying fully on her breast, little legs thrust straight out behind her, wings stretched to the side, and neck stretched as far as it would reach ahead. She look like roadkill. Granted, I knew nothing about chickens at that time, but this didn't look good. I talked to my GF into going to bed (yes,I can't just sit here and watch him (sic) die), fully expecting to find a deceased biddie in the morning . Surprise. She was wandering around like all the other chicks. Of course, we spent a disproportionate amount of time watching chicks at day. When rest time came, 5 little fluffballs, one "road kill". Turns out, that was just the way she liked to sleep. By evening of the second day, our first chick had a name . WEIRDO. And a name she work hard to live up to. At barely two weeks old, she was the first one to "fly" out of the brooder (and overcame her awkward sleeping habit because she roosted on the edge of the brooder box after that-heat lamp be damned!) At 4 weeks, first to fly out of the temporary four-foot outdoor daytime brooder. First to catch and eat a bug. She was the trailblazer . (also first to peck the dog on the nose). OK. Precocious perhaps, but weird? She was also the first to dust bathe. But. She (still to this day) lies completely on her side, and uses her feet to grasp dirt and throw it onto her body, with neck outstretched and eating. First to do the egg song (at 3 months) although she still has not given me an egg at 23 weeks. I called it the egg song because I was sitting about 20 feet away and did not notice any distractions or danger. Nor did her flock mates. They were busy eating bugs out of the grass. Didn't even look up. Oh... First to sound like a chicken instead of biddie peeps. Lots of other weird isms that were nothing like her flockmates, but you get the picture. So she evolved from "dns" status to head of the pecking order today. At a few weeks old I would have given odds that either "she" would be a "he" or if not she would give me my first egg. Lost that money.
Weirdo!
We bought 6 EEs the first week of April. First night home, I told my GF ... I'm afraid this one's not going to make it . FREAK-OUT!!! She wanted to call the farm store NOW (9:00 pm) Call a vet! DO SOMETHING! I explained as best I could that sometimes newly hatched chicks just don't thrive (for all the good THAT did)
The reason for all this gloom and doom histrionics and my somber diagnosis? The other 5 chicks were peacefully resting, crouched down on their feet like little fuzz balls. This one was lying fully on her breast, little legs thrust straight out behind her, wings stretched to the side, and neck stretched as far as it would reach ahead. She look like roadkill. Granted, I knew nothing about chickens at that time, but this didn't look good. I talked to my GF into going to bed (yes,I can't just sit here and watch him (sic) die), fully expecting to find a deceased biddie in the morning . Surprise. She was wandering around like all the other chicks. Of course, we spent a disproportionate amount of time watching chicks at day. When rest time came, 5 little fluffballs, one "road kill". Turns out, that was just the way she liked to sleep. By evening of the second day, our first chick had a name . WEIRDO. And a name she work hard to live up to. At barely two weeks old, she was the first one to "fly" out of the brooder (and overcame her awkward sleeping habit because she roosted on the edge of the brooder box after that-heat lamp be damned!) At 4 weeks, first to fly out of the temporary four-foot outdoor daytime brooder. First to catch and eat a bug. She was the trailblazer . (also first to peck the dog on the nose). OK. Precocious perhaps, but weird? She was also the first to dust bathe. But. She (still to this day) lies completely on her side, and uses her feet to grasp dirt and throw it onto her body, with neck outstretched and eating. First to do the egg song (at 3 months) although she still has not given me an egg at 23 weeks. I called it the egg song because I was sitting about 20 feet away and did not notice any distractions or danger. Nor did her flock mates. They were busy eating bugs out of the grass. Didn't even look up. Oh... First to sound like a chicken instead of biddie peeps. Lots of other weird isms that were nothing like her flockmates, but you get the picture. So she evolved from "dns" status to head of the pecking order today. At a few weeks old I would have given odds that either "she" would be a "he" or if not she would give me my first egg. Lost that money.
Weirdo!
Sounds like she lives up to her name! 
cLAIRE'S p
My hen Alberta was weird too. She loved to dustbathe, but would fall asleep in the middle- I thought she was dead until she came to and finished her bath
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Maybe they like to scare us! 
sure they love to scare you badly, then when they move, you are so thankful.
Yup!
Kinda like when I take a 12 + hour nap and folks are ready to take my pulse.
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