SkunkWhisperer
Chirping
- Dec 3, 2015
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I didn't name my hens, but I always greeted them with "Good morning, Stinkies!" And now there's only one left, her sisters having perished (birds of prey, predators, car), so she is "Stinky." She's a healthy, gorgeous, four-year-old Rhode Island Red who consistently lays beautiful, tasty 67-70 gram ("Jumbo") eggs at a rate of one every 1.92 days (unless she's molting or spending energy keeping warm...then it's a little less frequent).
She is curious and friendly and good with kids. She's not wild about being chased around or touched -- she's a chicken, after all -- but once you grab her and show her a little warmth, she settles in and is completely docile.
She has always been near the bottom of the pecking order and is used to being around geese, ducks, pigeons, magpies, and even pigs and doesn't mind them a bit.
She comes with all sorts of chicken maintenance stuff (if you want any or all of it): Pine shavings, straw, oyster shells, a bag and a half of Manna Pro Egg Layer crumbles (I raised my hens on the cheap stuff...they didn't like the expensive, fancy food. Yay!), a nearly full bag of scratch bird seed, and a quart tub of dried worms.
The only reason I'm giving her away is that I feel it's important to do right by the bird, and she is bored and lonely. She camps out next to the sliding door every afternoon. At first I thought she did that because she was hoping I'd come out to feed her (she loves eating scratch out of my hand), but I sat out on the patio and observed that she sees her reflection in the door, and that's why she camps there...she wants to be around her own kind. Poor dear.
All I ask is that you don't take her just to kill and eat her, that you have another hen or a few of them but not roosters (as I hate seeing hens being de-feathered or having their combs bloodied by flock-mates), that you free range your birds (even if it's in a small yard), and that they have a heated place to sleep during cold winter nights. Some might think that sounds like a lot to ask. Others will think, "That's exactly how I take care of my birds, so no problem!"
She's a beautiful, lovely bird, and I think you'll really like her. I'll deliver her and all the extras anywhere in the Denver metro area.
Thank you very much for reading all of this. As you can probably tell, I really care for her and want her to go to a home where she'll have company and be content. Please get in touch with me if you think she'll be a good fit!
Dan
Going for a piece of bread I tossed in the back yard.
Her lovely eggs. They get speckles from the stuff I feed her...table scraps, yogurt, cat food (seafood variety, never chicken!), worms, bird seed, chicken food...and the insects and seeds she eats while foraging around the yard. My property is bug-free thanks to her!
She's striking a pose for you. Show-off.
She rarely eats oyster shells because she gets so much nutrition from other sources, but I still sprinkle a few around, just in case. The bag is about half full.
Relatively inexpensive, delicious, and great for hens!
So much for cheap food. This is super-pricey hen crack. She LOVES dried worms, even though they'll upset her stomach if she has too many of them.
She's not at all afraid to eat from my hand and actually prefers it to eating off the ground. The neighbor kids have giggle fits when she accidentally pecks some skin.
Poor little Stinky, all alone. She needs friends.
She is curious and friendly and good with kids. She's not wild about being chased around or touched -- she's a chicken, after all -- but once you grab her and show her a little warmth, she settles in and is completely docile.
She has always been near the bottom of the pecking order and is used to being around geese, ducks, pigeons, magpies, and even pigs and doesn't mind them a bit.
She comes with all sorts of chicken maintenance stuff (if you want any or all of it): Pine shavings, straw, oyster shells, a bag and a half of Manna Pro Egg Layer crumbles (I raised my hens on the cheap stuff...they didn't like the expensive, fancy food. Yay!), a nearly full bag of scratch bird seed, and a quart tub of dried worms.
The only reason I'm giving her away is that I feel it's important to do right by the bird, and she is bored and lonely. She camps out next to the sliding door every afternoon. At first I thought she did that because she was hoping I'd come out to feed her (she loves eating scratch out of my hand), but I sat out on the patio and observed that she sees her reflection in the door, and that's why she camps there...she wants to be around her own kind. Poor dear.
All I ask is that you don't take her just to kill and eat her, that you have another hen or a few of them but not roosters (as I hate seeing hens being de-feathered or having their combs bloodied by flock-mates), that you free range your birds (even if it's in a small yard), and that they have a heated place to sleep during cold winter nights. Some might think that sounds like a lot to ask. Others will think, "That's exactly how I take care of my birds, so no problem!"
She's a beautiful, lovely bird, and I think you'll really like her. I'll deliver her and all the extras anywhere in the Denver metro area.
Thank you very much for reading all of this. As you can probably tell, I really care for her and want her to go to a home where she'll have company and be content. Please get in touch with me if you think she'll be a good fit!
Dan
Going for a piece of bread I tossed in the back yard.
Her lovely eggs. They get speckles from the stuff I feed her...table scraps, yogurt, cat food (seafood variety, never chicken!), worms, bird seed, chicken food...and the insects and seeds she eats while foraging around the yard. My property is bug-free thanks to her!
She's striking a pose for you. Show-off.
She rarely eats oyster shells because she gets so much nutrition from other sources, but I still sprinkle a few around, just in case. The bag is about half full.
Relatively inexpensive, delicious, and great for hens!
So much for cheap food. This is super-pricey hen crack. She LOVES dried worms, even though they'll upset her stomach if she has too many of them.
She's not at all afraid to eat from my hand and actually prefers it to eating off the ground. The neighbor kids have giggle fits when she accidentally pecks some skin.
Poor little Stinky, all alone. She needs friends.
