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Greenseer (Dionne) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️coc-a-dwdl-dŵ, cocorico, kikeriki, cuc-adiú-dil-ú, chicchirichi, gū gū gū, kokekokkō, kuckeliku, kuku-kookooMorning Friendlings, from a damp Welsh valley shrouded in mist and low cloud. Hope you are happy and well 😘Here was my other cockerel crowing and in perfect form 🐓💕🥰 <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/MorningAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MorningAll</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Greenseer (Dionne) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️So this was how it all began. Simply by telling you that the next post, part 2, the main purpose of this toot and with the three most shocking photos, will be placed behind a CW, you can probably already guess that this cockerel was a very very naughty boyWhen I encountered him, along with a small brood of hens and another cockerel, I had only just finished my peaceful lunch (involving drumsticks.. yes, I know!) by an idyllic and peaceful mountain stream 😉🐔 <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/cockerels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cockerels</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/chickensofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofmastodon</a> (1/2)

Sand Hill ThicketThe first chick hatched 🐣 before we left and two more hatched while we were gone. 🥚🐣🐥 Time for me to make a brooder. I'm off to select a box from the garage! <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/eggs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eggs</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/chicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chicks</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Prof. Catherine FlickChicken pics for those who enjoy!<a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/chickensofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofmastodon</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbWelcoming Cinnamon Sugar back home today. 🥰🐓She is one of the babies that my youngest hen hatched from "borrowed"* eggs last year. She's been up at the farm since early August 2024. Since the farmer doesn't want to keep her because she doesn't prefer breeding hens with her feather colors, we got her back! She is another light blue egg layer. Can't wait to integrate her into the flock in a couple of weeks. Right now she's in isolation, and I'm planning to work with her on taming her down a little bit. She's very wild. She got her primaries clipped today and only screamed a little bit bc we were inside and the cat was curious about her. She screamed a lot at my dogs when we were outside. Poor thing. Chickens are very unwelcoming to new flock members. I'm not sure her adopted mom will remember her? But we'll just take it day by day at this point. I'll make sure that everyone's well before I move her containment into the main run. It's a process!* I say "borrowed" because we don't have a rooster, so no fertile eggs. We hatch out a dozen or more hatching eggs from my farmer friend's flock every year, depending on how many of my girls go broody. Then, most of those chickens go back to the farmer or they go to people who want chicks.I'm already starting to encourage my girls to consider sitting. I put wooden eggs in the nest box last week and somebody has been moving them around! So, signs are good that I will have somebody who wants to sit fairly soon. Demand for chicks is really high this year.I know, I should've named her Nicole. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfTheFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfTheFediverse</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbNew hashtag inspiration thanks to: <a href="https://theblower.au/@frogglin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@frogglin</a>My name is Cookie Dough, But you can call me...<a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfTheFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfTheFediverse</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbChickens are SO WEIRD. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbThis never gets old! Maybe it's just my autism, but every single egg my girls produce is a little bit of joy in my life. I marvel at them, and I thank them for every single one. Even though I do have four green egg layers, I can still tell which one laid which egg. That's how deeply I know my flock. Though I'm gonna have to figure out these calcium spots. They're intermittent. It is just the start of the season, and once she gets into a rhythm, and we get into fresh greens season, the problem usually goes away.I don't love the food that I'm feeding them, so I may need to supplement more. We're not quite to the season where I can bring home weed greens from one of the gardens I work at. This girl will be 3 this year and yet she is still one of my most reliable layers! None of the other three-year-olds have started laying yet, and the four-year-old blue-egg-layer hasn't either. The two-year-olds raised by this peach-egg-laying three-year-old both have, so I've got three hens laying right now. Woot! I cannot tell you how much it actually costs us to produce an egg. I purposefully took it on as a hobby, not as a job, so I don't track costs of inputs vs outputs. Honestly, in the four years that I've been doing this, it's probably cost me at least a dollar per egg if not more. (Which is the current price of "cheap" eggs, someone else told me?!) It's entirely possible that from the next hatch that we brood, I will keep two hens to refresh my flock. If somebody wants to rat me out for having more birds than the city allows, I'd like to see them try. There are people like that living in this neighborhood now, though. They live to criticize and tear down people like me who prefer to have native plants in their yards rather than a colonialist lawn. Thus me calling someone a troll and telling them to move to West Lawrence on Facebook yesterday. That was my swan (chicken?) song there!<a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Eve :verified:@Flominator @PurpleJillybeans <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://swiss.social/tags/BackyardChickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BackyardChickens</a> Here are my chicken and ducks, enjoying a treat while I'm cleaning 🥰

Jill Veldhuis 💾Buffy wants to know where all the chicken people are on Fedi! She's following hashtags like <a href="https://kind.social/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a>, <a href="https://kind.social/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> and <a href="https://kind.social/tags/BackyardChickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BackyardChickens</a>, plus a couple individual accounts, but there are probably lots of people out there she hasn't found yet.<a href="https://kind.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

Prof. Catherine FlickI also put out fresh woodchip for winter for the chooks so they’re now very happy. <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/chickensofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofmastodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickens</a>

Herisson RoseVinci, my Ayam Cemani X Silkie rooster, who sadly passed away yesterday.He hatched in 2017, so pretty good innings for a rooster.(Also pictured: 2 of his sisters, Camilla and Sansa Squawk)<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rooster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rooster</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birdstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birdstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chickensofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofmastodon</a>

ColinHolding Grace. She’s the only one left that is ok with being picked up. Terrible low selfie bc she would worry if I lift something high up. Ada is NOT a fan. <a href="https://birdbutt.com/tags/BackyardChickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BackyardChickens</a> <a href="https://birdbutt.com/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Jill Veldhuis 💾Buffy has never been a particularly friendly chicken, and after being left to free range for the last year she's practically feral. I'd like to try to acclimate her to human company, but simply being in the coop with her is clearly driving her to near panic.:VictorSob:⬇️ play with sound on if you want to hear a chicken going 'buk buk buk buk buk buk buk' for 15 seconds. :ChickenHead: <a href="https://kind.social/tags/chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickens</a> <a href="https://kind.social/tags/chickensofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofmastodon</a>

Kit MuseTeenage chickens.... I mean it's been a rough year with this year's pullets (of which 4-5 turned out to be roosters), but I'm guessing the walnut tree growing through the coop tore the netting enough that this easter egger young hen and a friend could pop through. We'll see if they make it back into the coop.But seriously, this is not helpful. Good thing everyone else appears to be staying put, and there's always next year.<a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/chickensofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofMastodon</a> <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/ChickenDaddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickenDaddy</a> <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/ButtNuggets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ButtNuggets</a>

Kit MuseSpouse is not a fan of me walking up to him and touching him on the cheek with warm egg and then telling him, "see, still warm from the chicken's butt".Like dude, that's a really fresh egg and there's lots of love in that gesture..... But seriously, is there anything better than gathering eggs to find it still warm? <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/ChickenDaddy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickenDaddy</a> <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/chickensofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofMastodon</a> <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a>

Sand Hill ThicketThe Calicos at Dinnertime<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/CatsOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatsOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>📽🎬 <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/BDL3m0c_N8w" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/BDL3m0c_N8w</a>

Lydia Schoch<a href="https://kolektiva.social/@donkeyherder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@donkeyherder</a> Paging <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>. You have a new member. :) (Also, this is adorable. Thank you for sharing it. Have you chosen a name for this sweet little bird yet?).

Yudderick & Co.I find myself unfortunately in need of help finding a home for my flock of chickens. I'm moving from a small rural farm to a house in the city, and the arrangements I had previously made for the birds have fallen though.The chickens are in the US in Virginia, and so I'm looking for anyone in any nearby state (including West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Delaware, or even Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky) who could take them in. Basically anywhere I can reasonably drive them.There are nine hens and a rooster, and they are all 8-11 years old, well past prime laying age. They need a place where they can live out their lives in safety and comfort. One of the hens is blind but has been blind for many years now and is fine as long as she has a roost bar to perch on with nearby food and water.I am absolutely willing to pay for their feed and care, and I could even pay for and/or personally construct a coop/run for them to live in. I've tried contacting nearby rescue organizations but the only one who is even accepting chickens has room for just a few of the hens. If you can help please email me at: chicken (at) npgr.com(Boosts appreciated)<a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/Poultry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poultry</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/BackyardChickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BackyardChickens</a>

Kit MuseI heard the voice-cracking attempting to crow sounds that tells me one of the 17 chicks I got from the feed store is NOT a pullet, but a rooster. At this point my rooster-hen ratio is way to low anyway so adding one more with (hopefully) 16 hens is no big deal. It'd be nice if it was one of my naked neck/turken chicks because I have a bunch of easter egger roos, and that'd give me more options (I want to breed naked neck easter eggers). We shall see. <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickens</a> <a href="https://eponaauthor.social/tags/chickensofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickensofMastodon</a>

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