Um, who returns a half starved molting chicken? (update/more pictures)

[SunnyCalifornia]

What a crazy story! Makes me want to go change out all the locks on my coops! I am grateful there is a happy ending. Give her a hug from me!

 

[laughingdog]

and people wonder why i keep my chooks in the house when im gone!

 

[sheila3935]

We have been lucky so far my neighbor and I both have chickens and if any get out all the other neighbors are right on the phone or knocking at the door to let us know. I am so glad your girl is doing good and glad that at least if someone took her they brought her back. Most people have no clue as to how to take care of chickens. I am glad they had the decency to return her and not let her die. Continued good luck with her. I love happy endings

 

[Minniechickmama]

I used to live close to you, in Arbor Lake subdivision between Monument and Fort Caroline Roads. There are plenty of seedy neighborhoods, could have been just about any number of them that did it. It is obvious it was someone who stole her, otherwise, why wouldn't they have left a note or called or knocked on the door. AND why return her at night? That is just crazy. I would be so P.Oed!

 

[laughingdog]

im curious as how, unless just kept in a box, the chook was starved, as ive seen neighbors keep them in tiny crates and throw a bit of leftovers or something in once a week, and their chooks are fine. and they seem to be hardy enough to live just about anywhere on anything. seeming more and more she maybe was just borrowed for breeding by probably someone with just a sickly old game cock, if neighborhood is as how said. just make sure someone doesnt try to "borrow" any more. neighbors will do that around here too, as after asking and talking about, i was told (someone will have hen or roo go missing then its back all tore up from fighting or mating and bad shape, or find one or more extra birds in coop, and then later sometimes they disappear again).

 

[FireTigeris]

Well, anyhow she went from this: (new pictures, today) to that (scroll up) in one month. And now she's like this again.

 

[laughingdog]

love the rosecombs in the pics. are they just a variant of reds?

 

[laughingdog]

also what is the roo in the last pick, or all of them? have any offspring of them to show off?

 

[FireTigeris]

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She has a standard comb but floppy- she's a 'Production Red' (vs an heirloom Red), the GLW next to her has a pea comb-

The roo is a beardless (fault/DQ?) Wheaten Ameraucana.

His name is Fiesta.

I have hatched 8 babies from him from my mixed flock, two are silkie crosses, two are EE crosses, and the other two are 'production' crosses (RIR one and BSL the other).

 

[laughingdog]

hehehe so cute! im still a acronim dummy, and mostly for all the chicken lingo in general. so not sure what differance is in production vrs airloom reds, though now one type we use up north i love color, hardiness, shape/form, and broodiness, and other im less keen on and didnt even recognize, and believe at first was a red. think i might have a fertile egg of each, so if they make it to poults (or more likely cockrels, which we will pray against), ill check up more on.