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She is one of my fancy Polish crested chickens that I started from chicks last May. Babs was low chicken on the totem pole. Invariably, I would find her hiding in the henhouse...avoiding contact with all her fellow hens....fearful of being pecked to death.
She is also unusual in that she does not shy from human contact. In fact, she seeks it. It has been her habit to come to my feet as soon as I enter the henhouse, to be picked up and loved for a few minutes.
Months ago I relocated Babs to the henhouse where my August chicks were growing. She got along nicely there and continues to live there with 10 hens and Kenny Rogers (rooster). Each day she comes to my feet and asks to be picked up. We talk, we take a short walk and then she is ready to be put back down again.
Yesterday was such a lovely day that I let Babs and her girlfriends out of their yard. They spent the afternoon rummaging through the leaves, eating bugs and grass, and investigating the world outside the henhouse.
She is a most unusual chicken....the only one out of my 80+ girls who behaves this way. I often wonder what she thinks when I walk into the henhouse. She is quite the talker, though, and always has lots of tales to tell me (usually stories about Kenny Rogers and the other hens). And then we both cackle!
- Missing
Have you seen this chicken?Babs McCluck was last seen heading out of thehenhouse around 3 PM the other afternoon.It was an afternoon like any other.She pecked around in the grass,explored the edge of the wood...and then she was gone...without a trace....
- Babs, Continued
I am sure that by now you know how much I love my chickens. You have to have figured out by now that my favorite is Babs. She just amazes me....she is so non-chicken-like. Lately when her henhouse pals are out free ranging in the woods,...
- Rooster Update
Ending up with more roosters than we had planned on has given us a few challenges. We have experimented with living arrangements in an effort to keep all of our chickens happy and unstressed. What we have learned is this...... Some roosters are naturally...
- Turkens
Meet IvankaAnd NatashaIt has been a while since I have shown you a picture of the turkens (Transylvanian naked neck chickens). They are almost full grown now and have their adult feathers. Surprisingly, turkens are very hardy chickens....and these gals...
- Pecking Order
This might be the one chicken characteristic that I cannot stand. That is.....the weakest chicken is always picked on by the others. Yesterday morning I witnessed a very sad display of this pecking order behavior. Unfortunately my favorite gal, Babs,...
Animals
Babs, The Wonder Chicken
Do you remember Babs?
She is also unusual in that she does not shy from human contact. In fact, she seeks it. It has been her habit to come to my feet as soon as I enter the henhouse, to be picked up and loved for a few minutes.
Yesterday was such a lovely day that I let Babs and her girlfriends out of their yard. They spent the afternoon rummaging through the leaves, eating bugs and grass, and investigating the world outside the henhouse.
When I walked down to check on them,
Babs came running up to me.
I picked her up.
We talked.
We walked.
Babs rode on the gator.
Then back with her flock she went.
She is a most unusual chicken....the only one out of my 80+ girls who behaves this way. I often wonder what she thinks when I walk into the henhouse. She is quite the talker, though, and always has lots of tales to tell me (usually stories about Kenny Rogers and the other hens). And then we both cackle!
- Missing
Have you seen this chicken?Babs McCluck was last seen heading out of thehenhouse around 3 PM the other afternoon.It was an afternoon like any other.She pecked around in the grass,explored the edge of the wood...and then she was gone...without a trace....
- Babs, Continued
I am sure that by now you know how much I love my chickens. You have to have figured out by now that my favorite is Babs. She just amazes me....she is so non-chicken-like. Lately when her henhouse pals are out free ranging in the woods,...
- Rooster Update
Ending up with more roosters than we had planned on has given us a few challenges. We have experimented with living arrangements in an effort to keep all of our chickens happy and unstressed. What we have learned is this...... Some roosters are naturally...
- Turkens
Meet IvankaAnd NatashaIt has been a while since I have shown you a picture of the turkens (Transylvanian naked neck chickens). They are almost full grown now and have their adult feathers. Surprisingly, turkens are very hardy chickens....and these gals...
- Pecking Order
This might be the one chicken characteristic that I cannot stand. That is.....the weakest chicken is always picked on by the others. Yesterday morning I witnessed a very sad display of this pecking order behavior. Unfortunately my favorite gal, Babs,...