A boy and his chickens

[thatpotteryguy]

It was very damp and windy and consequently uncomfortable yesterday in the chicken coops. At one point when I went out to check for eggs, I thought that we were missing a hen. Upon further investigation, I found Lucy, one of our Barred Cornish Rocks, cuddling with Pineapple, one of the bantam Wheatens.

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[pinkleader]

I was watching the Dirty Jobs where Mike Rowe joins the Chicken Busters in Miami, and thought of you. Some were very pretty chickens, just running wild. Apparently they only catch 30% of the feral chickens.

[pixel39]

Chicken Busters?

[pinkleader]

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/dirty-jobs-chicken-buster/

Apparently Miami has a problem with rogue feral chickens as folks will get chicks for pets and then release them when they start to cock-a-doodle-doo as they get older.

[pixel39]

That's wild. Now I have this odd image of chicken gangs prowling the streets of Miami.

Someone a couple blocks over from us had a chicken--it was large and goldenish. I saw it a couple of times, hanging out on their lawn. It had to have been a pet chicken because MN winters are cold enough that a feral chicken probably wouldn't have survived.

[kls_eloise]

Did you ever figure out where the Refugee Chickens came from?

[thatpotteryguy]

Nope. Not a clue. Nobody around here cops to them.

[alyclepal]

I love watching birds interact. When we had an indoor finch aviary it was like a soap opera. Some of my hens were cheating with other cocks and I couldn't get the desired offspring colors because the genetics were being cheated. Kinda miss watching them but not the clean up.