Thürigian Bearded Bantam (Critically Endangered Breed)

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I can't wait to see how they develop as they age!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Goofball got one eyebrow, a beard, and decided his adorable looks and fashion wasn't enough so he had to hit a pose and give me a bombastic side eye lol

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

So about a week or two ago my black skinned hen went full on broody broody and I'm letting her keep 6 of her eggs. However I didn't know D'anvers are also super broody... So I went out to check on the silkie mix and found that the D'anver had kicked her to the outside of the box and was hunkered down on the 6 eggs and had ripped out all her breast feathers. So I took an old water bucket and filled it with some straw and put 3 phoenix eggs in it. After quite a bit of biting and a few wing slaps I managed to get the now extremely angry D'anver hen into the bucket next to the crate she was originally in and locked the door keeping the silkie mix with her eggs. Now if I'm lucky... She'll go "oh man, the crates locked and there's a new nest with eggs in the corner of the coop next to the crate... Guess I'll just sit on those", but perhaps she's also determined to sit in the crate. Idk, I guess we'll see lol

But the silkie mix should have her eggs hatching next weekend!

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I'm gonna check on her in an hour or so to see how things are!

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

Super fun! I’ve got a couple eggs set to hatch on Sunday! I’ll be putting them in lockdown tonight.
Hopefully the d’Anvers behaves herself lol

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Super fun! I’ve got a couple eggs set to hatch on Sunday! I’ll be putting them in lockdown tonight.
Hopefully the d’Anvers behaves herself lol

That's awesome, I hope they hatch!
Me too, she bit my sleeve when I picked her up lol

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I always sorta "scoop" up my birds gently, unfortunately almost every Italian I've bought birds from grabs them by the wings, I could never hold a bird like that

 

[ChickenCameFirst]

Ooof, that makes me cringe a little thinking of it. The “worst” I do is grabbing the lower back, a little on the tail, of bantams, but they’re so light and even calm when I do it that I’ve never felt like they’re being hurt. Sometimes I can even catch their wings with that grab which helps with the more skittish ones so they don’t freak out.
That sounds worse than it is lol and I don’t even do it very often as most of my bantams are too friendly to need grabbed as they usually jump on me when I’m in the coop

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

She wants me dead lol, she's got the rage of a thousand Chihuahuas

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Ooof, that makes me cringe a little thinking of it. The “worst” I do is grabbing the lower back, a little on the tail, of bantams, but they’re so light and even calm when I do it that I’ve never felt like they’re being hurt. Sometimes I can even catch their wings with that grab which helps with the more skittish ones so they don’t freak out.
That sounds worse than it is lol and I don’t even do it very often as most of my bantams are too friendly to need grabbed as they usually jump on me when I’m in the coop

That doesn't seem that bad, I did see someone cause a barred rock to drop their tail feathers from grabbing the tail, but bantams tend to be quite friendly

I think the worst I do is carefully put my left hand on their back and try gently grabbing the legs with my right hand to prevent kicking and then I move the left hand to their back to the crop area to support their bodies, idk if that makes sense. Like looks like how you hold a nerf gun lol

For larger crazy birds I kinda hold them with my left hand on their legs and have their head in the armpit of my jacket with their keel bone against my leg. Seems to weirdly calm the down. I use my right hand to keep their wings held against their body just enough to stop them from flapping. I've never hurt a bird doing that method. It's also really helpful when trying to give them leg bands!