Pablo and Picasso {Silver Laced Wyandotte}
Last night The Girl Who Thinks She’s A Bird asked if chickens can be neutered. Here we are at week #7 with the baby chicks, and Pablo has yet to crow. Pablo has turned into such a little love bug the last few weeks that we don’t want to get rid of him. Picassso on the other hand knows something must be up, and keeps giving us the evil eye.
Maybe we need to be looking for a new home for the 2 of them and not just Pablo.
Maroon {Rhode Island Red}
Maroon refuses to let us take her picture and if she keeps acting this way she may be moving to Girly Girl’s coop soon.
5 {Rhode Island Red}
5 still loves us though, and she is slowly growing out of her awkward, shy stage.
Black Fatty {Australorp}
If you have never had chickens before, I would totally recommend getting a few australorps. They are the friendliest birds I have ever come across. They are quite, great with children and nice and plump, which makes them easy to catch and cuddle.
Matilda {Easter Egger}
Matilda doing the cat walk… She is destined for New York City someday.
Peanut {Easter Egger}
Total stinker. May also be shipped up to Girly Girl’s place if she doesn’t change her attitude soon.
Hilda {Easter Egger}
Well, she’s definitely not the cleanest bird ever, but she practically begs for The Girl and I to pick her up and carry her around as soon as we set foot in the coop. She’s a bit of a talker too, and is always trying to tell us a story.
Raising backyard chickens is the best. Especially if you are able to giveaway the disagreeable ones to a neighbor. Just remember to say NO GIVE BACKS when you do hand them off.
~Mavis
Read More Chicken Stories
If you are thinking about getting a flock of your own, check out the book Homemade Living: Keeping Chickens with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Care for a Happy, Healthy Flock. Amazon currently has the book in stock and on sale.
Tanya @ Lovely Greens says
We’re fairly limited for chicken breeds here, unless you’d like to send for fertilised eggs. I do admire your rainbow nation flock though – Pablo and Picasso are probably my favourites but I’m intrigued by the idea of ‘Easter Eggers’.
Marcy says
They are SO cute! My kids mock my desire to have chickens.
Too many predators in my town to have them yet. I don’t want to be the person who shoots something and doesn’t kill it.
http://www.adn.com/2012/10/25/2671995/another-hillside-chicken-coop.html
Mavis says
Yikes!
CathyB says
Marcy – that was less than a mile from our house. And I have wanted chickens too. But told the hubs I am not sure that fresh eggs are worth attracting a bear!
Peggy says
Neutering Pablo really wouldn’t help with the crowing. Capons are neutered males and that is what makes them grow bigger. I once asked my Vet if he would cut the vocal cords in a rooster that I had grown very fond of and wanted to keep so much. The Vet was very upset that I even wanted to do that. I finally had to give “Goldie” away. Sad day at my house. And yes his waddles and comb looked very much like Pablo’s when he was small. I thought my DH was going to have a heartach the first time he hear that crow. LOL
Carol says
I had a hen named Chicken Rose (speckled sussex) who thought she was a roo and made so much noise (her female crowing was quite loud) I had to give her away. A very sad day, indeed. Esp since she was the best layer in the bunch.