This chicken is not dead

[janiedoe]

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oh dear - it's contagious!
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aagghh! it's a pandemic! they're dropping like flies!
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Those are some pretty girls! Especially the legbar.

 

[Perris]

thanks, but which one did you have in mind there? (I wasn't aware that I had a legbar ).

 

[kattabelly]

No it didn't lose its head, nor is it a zombie chicken

Not any kind of chicken - it's clearly a Lesser Spotted Welsh Valley Haggis. The round shape, lack of tartan patterning and even-lengthed legs (for running down the valleys instead of around hill or mountainsides) are all key ID features.

I thought they were extinct!

 

[janiedoe]

thanks, but which one did you have in mind there? (I wasn't aware that I had a legbar ).

The pretty girl in front, in the 1st picture. Is she a legbar mix maybe? She sure has the look with her floppy comb and crest.

 

[Perris]

The pretty girl in front, in the 1st picture. Is she a legbar mix maybe? She sure has the look with her floppy comb and crest.

Ah that's Llandeilo; she's half Penedesenca, a quarter Swedish Flower or Araucana (because the crest must have come from the male side, and all the boys with crests are hybrids of one or other of those), and a quarter serendipity This is what she looks like at her best

She's been quite ill recently, laid a LOT of soft shell eggs, and I really thought she was not going to make it, but hey, wrong again; she seems to have turned the corner a couple of weeks back, and now is looking really good again. She'll be 2 next month.

 

[N F C]

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oh dear - it's contagious!
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aagghh! it's a pandemic! they're dropping like flies!
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Someone needs to call the CDC to investigate!

 

[janiedoe]

Ah that's Llandeilo; she's half Penedesenca, a quarter Swedish Flower or Araucana (because the crest must have come from the male side, and all the boys with crests are hybrids of one or other of those), and a quarter serendipity This is what she looks like at her best
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She's been quite ill recently, laid a LOT of soft shell eggs, and I really thought she was not going to make it, but hey, wrong again; she seems to have turned the corner a couple of weeks back, and now is looking really good again. She'll be 2 next month.

She is gorgeous! I'm glad she is recuperating.

 

[MROO]

No it didn't lose its head, nor is it a zombie chicken
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Just snoozing standing up

Oh. Dear. Heavens. You need to submit that pic for the "Caption This" contest!

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Oh nohs
Legbar on lookout and Brahma burrying the Rhode