#CHICKENS

[llovinghome]

[makenna-made-this]

Watching the Gavle Goat livestream together

"I hope it gets eaten by birds again"

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

So we know Chickens are related too the TRex, I think as cousins right?

So A do you have a favorite chicken breed? I love ameraucanas.

B What Dinosaur did the chicken lineage come from?

All birds are full dinosaurs:

So the dinosaurs chickens evolved from are the same ones all other birds evolved from

The dividing line between bird and dinosaur is so ridiculously blurry it might as well not exist, but in general you can say that birds came from the "raptor" dinosaur group (ie Velociraptor, Troodon, Anchiornis, etc.)

[a-literate-chicken]

She’s thtuck

[rokonrrc2]

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how could you crush her dreams like this, shane.

(based the chicken tiktok that i'll link in reblog cuz idk if tumblr will screw me over for having a link in the og post)

[thebusylilbee]

today I found a store irl that sells lots of Hansa plushies and I was delighted bc I love that brand's work ! they do some realistic yet still cute (and soft) plushies and do a lot of very rare animals too !! it's pretty expensive though but I love to touch and admire them, especially their hens :

anyway I was familiar with that brand but only from what I've seen of them irl but uh I just scrolled their website and uuuuh...

everybody please look at what you can buy from them amongst other things :

[superfluffychickens]

The sheer Mass of this Woman…such an incredible Shape

[tfeesloth]

Got some silkies this weekend + I'm ecstatic. They are so fluffy. 😍 🐥 🐣

[franwlw]

🐔✨😇💖

CHAPPELL ROAN — A Carpool Karaoke Christmas (2024)

[froody]

my mom is soooo upset because she dropped and cracked one of her chicken’s eggs that she knew was fertilized. it’s her first time trying to hatch chicks and she was so excited. this was one of two eggs she’d seen moving while candling them. she feels so bad.

[victusinveritas]

[pineyw00dsshesquatch]

This what I needed to hear. I need to cull a couple roosters, and the weather has been wretched making my already crappy facilities more GD annoying, but if they gotta go, I'd better eat em.

I just got a butchered rooster from a neighbor that's gonna go in tamales today. I am excited to see how the stock from a home raised bird affects the tamale dough/masa.

You kill your birds? I thought you loved animals...

I do love animals. I breed quail for meat and eggs, and that means that yes, I kill some of my birds, just as I kill some of my mice who are unsuitable for pet homes or unnecessary for breeding, just as I have sent overtly aggressive peafowl that would be dangerous to other birds or humans home with someone to be dinner.

Loving animals and understanding meat source animals must be killed to be eaten and that domesticated husbandry requires some amount of hard culling for the benefit of the breeding program and species as a whole are not mutually exclusive ideas. It is my job to give my animals good, proper care, enrichment, and love until their time in this world is over (for some that's sooner than others), to ensure that death is as humane as possible, and to ensure that as little as possible goes to waste after.

And almost nothing here does go to waste; offal or unusable parts goes to the crows and other scavengers I feed at the front of the house (and in turn they chase off nosy hawks and eagles), meat gets eaten, bones get used to make stock and then composted for the garden. Mouse culls and quail feeder culls (quail hatched specifically to be feeders for other animals) almost all go to reptile owners who want ethically sourced animals kept in better conditions/fed better feed (the exception is when Bug eats some of them instead). And the two times I have ever had to cull aggressive peafowl, they both went to a hunting family that made use of the meat.

Additionally, on several occasions now, I have been called upon by others to help euthanize their fowl friends. Strangers who couldn't afford a vet bill but wanted to put an end to their bird's suffering. Strangers that knew it needed to be done but couldn't do it themselves, or that didn't know how. I have taught others how to do cervical dislocation in case the need arrives ever again, so the bird doesn't have to wait. I have held sobbing owners who thanked me for being able to do what they couldn't even when they knew it was necessary. And yes, I have demonstrated the butchering process to folks who want quail meat, so that I know they're giving a quick, humane end to their birds.

Death is a part of life. When you raise purpose animals, death is going to be a part of the deal at some point.

It doesn't mean I love them any less while they're here, or in general.

[seabeck]

WHAT DID YOU DO?!

[kedreeva]

There's some dude (derogatory) on FB who is PISSED people are pricing their farm fresh eggs at $2 and $3 a dozen instead of $4+, saying it's "disrespectful" and "undignified" and "I'm trying to feed my kids" like Sir, you are on a Facebook group page bitching about your neighbors egg prices because your pet chickens aren't earning you a living wage and you think it's your neighbors' fault, you do not have a leg to stand on here wrt dignity.

Also half the answers are like "I give them to friends and family free" or "I donate them to food banks" or "I'm making them affordable to folks who might not otherwise be able to get them now that they're so expensive in the store" and "if you think you're going to turn a profit keeping backyard chickens you have been wildly misled" and so on, and so forth, and I'm so living for it.

and I can tell you right now, he did NOT like my answer of "if you're trying to feed your kids, I hear eggs are edible."

[makenna-made-this]

Okkkkkk so where is Chicken Miku?

Anon the way i dropped everything when i saw this

HATSUNE BEAK-U

(based on the Onagadori chicken breed)