The Old Folks Home

[Latestarter]

Grats on the show results and the sale! Glad you had a great time. Sorry to hear the chicken math got ahold of you...

I know nothing of frou froo chickens... except they don't really LOOK like chickens... more like aliens... some more so than others (show girls)

Better Q would be "why" did you have a chicken inside on an oriental rug? <snickering> curious to be certain...
Welcome back!

 

[Latestarter]

I have had some well-behaved Silkie roos; even had two or three living together with a flock of hens. Gotta say, though, that one of the most comical things I have ever seen was when two Silkie roo's were mixing it up in the rabbitry. I had fly ribbons hanging in there, and when one of the roo's jumped up to attack the other, he bumped into the fly tape. He looked so foolish just hanging there from the tape . . . . (he was unharmed - just lost a few feathers and his dignity).

Picturing a little chicken wannabe hanging from a fly strip...

 

[Latestarter]

And lastly for all you fellow old folk...(don't know if they even teach about it in school anymore) Happy Pearl Harbor Day...

 

[Alaskan]

Grats on the show results and the sale! Glad you had a great time. Sorry to hear the chicken math got ahold of you... I know nothing of frou froo chickens... except they don't really LOOK like chickens... more like aliens... some more so than others (show girls) Better Q would be "why" did you have a chicken inside on an oriental rug? curious to be certain... Welcome back!

Complete ditto Sorry I can't help with he carpet.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Ok Wisher have you not heard of miss piggy

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Wisher, meet Miss Piggy.







Miss Piggy lives in Maine. Outside. All winter. Unheated coop. Windows and vents open.

Miss Piggy *could* possibly roost if she were to want to go that route. However, Miss Piggy demands that her master (me) or a surrogate master pick her up (right hand only, with flat hand in the Miss Piggy backing up motion) and deliver her to the roost of her choosing next to her friends each night. If you are late you will get chewed out. If you put Miss Piggy on a non-suitable roost or next to non-suitable roosting mates Miss Piggy will jump down, chew you out and then demand a re-do.

Miss Piggy is completely capable of getting in the coop herself. And up to the roost. In fact, if it's really cold and I'm late, she will be up on the roost looking at me with contempt. If it is a warm night and I'm late Miss Piggy will be camped out on the chicken porch ready to deliver me a verbal lashing like I've never seen before.

Miss Piggy also sat 90 minutes on my (right) hand while she had glamour shots taken in the house and there was no excrement issues.

 

[ronott1]

Wisher, meet Miss Piggy.







Miss Piggy lives in Maine. Outside. All winter. Unheated coop. Windows and vents open.

Miss Piggy *could* possibly roost if she were to want to go that route. However, Miss Piggy demands that her master (me) or a surrogate master pick her up (right hand only, with flat hand in the Miss Piggy backing up motion) and deliver her to the roost of her choosing next to her friends each night. If you are late you will get chewed out. If you put Miss Piggy on a non-suitable roost or next to non-suitable roosting mates Miss Piggy will jump down, chew you out and then demand a re-do.

Miss Piggy is completely capable of getting in the coop herself. And up to the roost. In fact, if it's really cold and I'm late, she will be up on the roost looking at me with contempt. If it is a warm night and I'm late Miss Piggy will be camped out on the chicken porch ready to deliver me a verbal lashing like I've never seen before.

Miss Piggy also sat 90 minutes on my (right) hand while she had glamour shots taken in the house and there was no excrement issues.

I love it!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Please note Miss Piggy might be related to Alaskan. She has never crowed nor shown any interest in nesting boxes of any type. She has also never molted. I've had her for years. She's a chicken conundrum.

Wisher, I also had Thriller, the showgirl rooster:



He was very docile. And delicious. I processed him because I was getting terrifying looking offspring that was difficult to sell. After Thriller I had He-Who-Could-Not-Be-Killed who was a pure paint silkie rooster and sweet as can be (he was an accident, I was trying to get more showgirls). He went home with a lab technician from work who wanted a rooster and I didn't have the heart to process him. He is still alive and has attempted to sacrifice himself to hawks for his flock on multiple occasions. He was picked up and dropped about 15 feet once.

All these lovely (and unlovely) creatures live in the heart of central Maine without heat.

Miss Piggy also occasionally has a bout of fecal incontinence (but never in the house). As long as she can stay perched on you she'll happily tolerate a warm kitchen spray nozzle and Vidal Sassoon blow dry.




You are going to love your new furballs.

 

[WVduckchick]

I love it!

x2!!

 

[Wisher1000]

Thanks everyone, I knew I could count on you guys to laugh at with me and to answer my questions. I am relieved to hear that I don't have to keep the little ones in the house. I will keep the little ones in the brooder room, sheltered, but without heat for a while until they are finished with quarantine. The rest will likely be rehomed or will be free ranging with all the other roosters. I have one that is gentle and one that is not too bad, but the other three are mean as snakes! The throng of free range roosters will likely take them down a peg or two.

I forgot to add that I also picked up a pair of nice RIReds that I will have a go at selectively breeding. They are descendents of Bob Blosl's flock of Mohawk line single comb large fowl birds. I couldn't help myself.