Tag: luckycluckers
Mini Melba
Mini Melba – with a much smaller comb and lighter colors! Melba with Mini Melbas and pals! About the Midnight Majesty Maran Chicken Breed The Midnight Majesty Marans™ from Hoover’s Hatchery have black plumage and most hatch with feathered feet, but some do not. Deep browns show up through their…
Who Broke the Chickens? Sunbathing chickens look really silly.
The first time some people see sunbathing chickens you begin to wonder if they are broken. The expressions! The Feathers! The positions! There is just no way to explain the beautifulness that is a sunbathing chicken! Way to go #bigbird for demonstrating the point! #luckycluckers #whobrokethechickens #bigbird #sunbathingbeauties
Friendly Chickens
Having friendly chickens that we can interact with has been a goal of ours. Since they’ve had an extended childhood inside, we’ve gotten a daily opportunity to interact with them. We make sure to sit with them and pet them/handle them so they become comfortable with us. Of course they…
Escape Chickens
Nothing says get a good night sleep like discovering that two chicks (in this case a black asian and a maran) decided to fly and perch atop the fence around the temporary indoor chicken coop. So back in they go. As #motherclucker watches they fly directly at the fence, catch…
Lady Elaine and the Chicken Diaper experience
Yes, indoor diapers for chickens is a thing. We’ve gotten a few in a variety of sizes to try them out and see what they are like. This #motherclucker has to do more research about putting clothes on chickens. Somehow I don’t think we are doing it right…looks awkward at…
How much do we weigh?
Melba the cuckoo maran rooster, tops the scale of our chicken flock weighing in at 3# .9 ounces. Compare that to Ebitz at a 1# .3oz, and Little big Bird at 2.0 ounces, and Tiny, our tiniest bantam weighing .7 ounces (smaller than a 1 ounce silver coin). That’s pretty…
