This chicken is not dead

[Perris]

She has a head; she's just buried it

 

[kattabelly]

Poor Mr P has been literally scalped (for almost two yrs now) and he still sleeps “face plant” on the ledge - poor baby!

He started moulting and the ladies picked his pin feathers causing copious ants of blood to coat his head and neck makimg them peck at him even more!

Then his some Bert gave him a thrashing and he was pecked unmercifully losing most of his head feathers.

I have been resigned to his not growing his lovely coiffe back again, but now he is moulting again and his head feathers are growing back!

As such he is locked away from those that would pick him, until he is fully feathered.

Poor old man!

Poor boy!

Mine are Shetlands, not Polish, and being a landrace they can be quite varied. Out of the six that hatched here I have one full-on feather duster, one that's not tappit (tufted/crested) at all and four somewhere between the two extremes. The only one that really needs a trim also doesn't seem to be great at keeping her head clean but she'll come over and let me peck at loose bits of feather sheath and any other crud she's picked up, and preen a bit after to tidy everything up again.

 

[MROO]

The hawks are still in the area, might as well spray paint a red bullseye on Phoebe View attachment 4198287

Nah - she's "playing dead" to keep them away. She'd best hope the hawks don't notify the buzzards!

 

[MROO]

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She has a head; she's just buried it

You have an ostrich?

 

[MROO]

Now did I post this one already? I lose track of this mare’s shinanigans

Reenie - ya that’s her tail - I had to look twice to see what it was also!
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That young lady sure knows how to relax!