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Anonymous Chicken said:
What should we discuss? Do we want to talk about special needs chickens in general?
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I think that's a great topic.

I've never personally had a 'special needs' chicken.
I don't think it's good for a chicken to need special help but I adore the people who give that chicken the help that they want, need and deserve :D
 
the_peanut_coop said:
I think that's a great topic.

I've never personally had a 'special needs' chicken.
I don't think it's good for a chicken to need special help but I adore the people who give that chicken the help that they want, need and deserve :D
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We have two special needs chickens, Peanut :D and Francis.

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Francis (Barred Rock) is from our original flock of six chickens. When we got her as a chick, she had curled toes, pasty and fell asleep much more than an ordinary chick does. We always had to make sure that she was thriving and getting enough to eat. She was the last of our hens to lay an egg, and her eggs were extremely fragile in the beginning and broke almost every time. We had to up her calcium intake and eventually she started laying normal eggs. She also has a special sound, like her vocal cords are a bit squished. (She likes to sing to us. :) ) Francis also has a hard time coming down the coop ramp, so she paces back and forth until we help her down. She has the sweetest disposition and is BCFs with our poshest chicken, Prue (who is a Brahma and named after Prue Leith).

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Peanut, one of our four Rhode Island Reds, was the smallest of our second lot of chicks. (Hence the name Peanut :)). She also slept a lot more than the others and was much slower, so we had to make sure she was eating enough food as well. She has always been a very thoughtful bird and stares into space for long periods of time. When we would hold her as a chick, she would try to walk off of our lap and walk on thin air, so she was dubbed "Peanut Skywalker". :D Needless to say, she is at the bottom of the flock (we still have to make sure she gets enough food) and loves to hang out with our rooster, Rocky. She is friends with our 2 year old Cornish Cross, Henny Penny. Peanut also has trouble laying eggs (which are very tiny), and has almost died twice laying an egg. We brought her in both times and did what we could to help her. We love her to pieces ā¤ļø
 
Anonymous Chicken said:
We have two special needs chickens, Peanut :D and Francis.

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Francis (Barred Rock) is from our original flock of six chickens. When we got her as a chick, she had curled toes, pasty and fell asleep much more than an ordinary chick does. We always had to make sure that she was thriving and getting enough to eat. She was the last of our hens to lay an egg, and her eggs were extremely fragile in the beginning and broke almost every time. We had to up her calcium intake and eventually she started laying normal eggs. She also has a special sound, like her vocal cords are a bit squished. (She likes to sing to us. :) ) Francis also has a hard time coming down the coop ramp, so she paces back and forth until we help her down. She has the sweetest disposition and is BCFs with our poshest chicken, Prue (who is a Brahma and named after Prue Leith).

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Peanut, one of our four Rhode Island Reds, was the smallest of our second lot of chicks. (Hence the name Peanut :)). She also slept a lot more than the others and was much slower, so we had to make sure she was eating enough food as well. She has always been a very thoughtful bird and stares into space for long periods of time. When we would hold her as a chick, she would try to walk off of our lap and walk on thin air, so she was dubbed "Peanut Skywalker". :D Needless to say, she is at the bottom of the flock (we still have to make sure she gets enough food) and loves to hang out with our rooster, Rocky. She is friends with our 2 year old Cornish Cross, Henny Penny. Peanut also has trouble laying eggs (which are very tiny), and has almost died twice laying an egg. We brought her in both times and did what we could to help her. We love her to pieces ā¤ļø
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Such sweet stories. It's a miricle that chicks that would've died right after they hatched landed in the laps of such amazing people that are willing to take care of them and save their beautiful lives
 

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