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!

 

[PlotTwistPoultry]

Miss Quasi would greatly appreciate it if I didn't judge her for her nap in the dirt.

 

[MROO]

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Miss Quasi would greatly appreciate it if I didn't judge her for her nap in the dirt.

I don't believe you! There is no possible way that chicken is "not dead." An after-pic of Miss Quasi - alive and well - is required!

 

[tlcmurphy]

I don't believe you! There is no possible way that chicken is "not dead." An after-pic of Miss Quasi - alive and well - is required!

Proof of Life generally requires today’s newspaper front page in the photo to confirm…

 

[alinas2010]

How to scare your owner, presented by Ravioli (with pics):

Step 1, pick a spot that is not the provided, approved dust bath area - see the dust bath bucket with clean, fresh peat moss specifically purchased for dirt bathes? Yea that garbage will never do, in fact, pick the grossest dirt you can find, preferably with poop in it:

Step 2, gather the dirt to yourself. Enough to make it look like you got a little roughed up and you got partially buried by a predator saving you for later:

Step 3, contort yourself into a weird position and freeze momentarily in that dirt you gathered around yourself. You can close your eyes for this, or you don’t have to, both look disturbing. Ignore your owner when they say your name:

If this fails, pick a spot to sunbathe, stretch out your neck and act like a cooked chicken. That should do the trick.

At the end of it all if you scared your owner too bad, be sure to give reassuring puppy eyes they could never be angry at

 

[SnackMeat]

Yesterday there was a nap massacre.