Tiny the Terrorist Attack Hen! Will She Become a Suicide Flogger?

[kitmarlowescot2]

Speckledhen, do you think you might next year raise some more chicks of Tiny and Issac or of his sons with Tiny, or with some of Raven's chicks, since Raven has turned out so nice ?

 

[speckledhen]

Speckledhen, do you think you might next year raise some more chicks of Tiny and Issac or of his sons with Tiny, or with some of Raven's chicks, since Raven has turned out so nice ?

You know, I may just do that. At least, now, I'm not afraid to do it, lol.

 

[kitmarlowescot2]

Well, any mean offspring of Tiny you can turn into stew be they pullets or cockerel's. I doubt that your husband know, knowing Tiny's personality will let himself get attached to her offspring until they are fully grown like Raven and are sure of a better temperment.

 

[speckledhen]

Bad Tiny. Hiding from the young roosters, who think she is the coolest thing on two legs (probably those sexy spurs, eh?), she was apparently in the storage area in the Old Hens' Coop during free range time when Isaac found her. He, in his usual slave driver way, encouraged this, I'm sure.

See anything in the first pic?

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Closer Look:

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Guess I shouldn't gripe since this was the ONLY egg laid today.

This guy is part of the problem-Deacon, her son. He is one of her suitors and has been since he was 10 weeks old.

 

[minniechicks]

Lol. Now. That is just too funny. :yiipchick.

 

[speckledhen]

Hiya, Dana! Thanks for visiting Tiny's thread! She is still one of the only hens laying out of about over 30 I have, including the bantams. The old ladies in the Retirement Coop and Tiny are making monkeys out of the younger hens in the laying flock. So, Tiny may be a challenge to manage, but at least, she is paying her way around here. We won't talk about her 3 month attempt to brood chicks, which we tried to thwart daily. Let's just hope she got the message that it will not be allowed in her case.

 

[seminolewind]

Hi Cynthia! Guess things are well with you. How many of your big birds do you have left?

 

[speckledhen]

Hi, Karen, good to hear from you! I currently have 27 LF hens, plus 3 pullets, 2 of those just about to lay and one 10 weeks old. Then I have Isaac, Indy, Rex, Ira and Deacon, plus their little 10 week old half brothers Gabriel and Scout. And then I have the 17 bantams, 5 of those roosters, one with the big old Orps. I need to get rid of most of the males. I had forgotten how it was to have so many hormonal males after all the hens and the hens are all hiding in the nests, some of them are in full molt and very skinny. Poor things are assaulted all the time. I guess I'm just not cut out for it anymore. I wanted them for the free range situation, since Isaac is getting older and no idea when he'll pass on, but this is ridiculous.

I can't seem to get rid of any of my birds, including the pullets. I have some gorgeous bantam pullets no one will even take. And Indy has grown into an enormous dinosaur, too big for my hens other than the Stukel Rocks like his own mother, so though he's not aggressive, he's just way too large for most of my hens.

 

[seminolewind]

Well you still have a lot of birds! I think I'm down to 32. Mine are all skinny too, and molting. I actually do have a bantam! Well, it's from a bantam hen and a Blue Jersey. As a 4 week old chick, I found her wandering in the yard, and to me that meant "finder's keepers". I thought you had a Scout before?

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, I do still have a lot of birds. My old girls are hanging on and still laying, for the most part. Meg and Caroline will be 7 in Jan. but aren't laying now. Meg could start back as she was laying this year. Caroline, the hatchery Brahma, hasn't laid in a year and a half, and her color is turning dark in the face, so her heart may be giving out. She's a tough old broad, for sure. Becca and Amanda, my old BR hens, are two months younger than Meg and both are laying now, though Mandy can barely walk due to severe arthritis.

I haven't hatched in a bator in ages, just a few chicks here and there as broodies pop up. I expect a mass die-off any time, considering the huge number of hens I have who are 5-7 years old. So my numbers could take a nosedive soon.

Yes, I had a Scout years ago-that was Gypsy's sire. Figured the name was gone long enough to reuse it. I probably won't keep this one, but I haven't had any luck finding homes for any birds this year, even the bantam pullets.