Not sure if it is a chicken

You can’t tell me Dill isn’t plotting something

Owner: Scott Taini on YouTube https://youtube.com/@scotttaini8306

There is at least one scientific paper regarding this hybrid titled "Characterization of a Chicken x Peahen Intergeneric Hybrid Produced under Natural Mating". https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/hayuretim/article/99708

There are two channels on YouTube that i know of that have these accidental hybrids, but unlike the one in the scientific paper, their hybrids were all fathered by a peacock.

Do I move the ones that have hatched? How and to where?

First break in in 2 years!

Bablu was my best friend.

I’ve been crying nonstop since he passed away. I keep having nightmares where his death replays over and over. It was so brutal. I thought it was impacted crop. He had it twice before and I treated it. Then after a few months, he suddenly became weak. His throat had a lump or something, and he kept gasping for air. Then he started foaming up and suffocated to death. I called every vet in my city. No one treated chickens. It all happened the same day…. He was perfect a couple hours ago :(

I got him when it was summertime. It was really hot, so I kept him in my room along with other baby chicks. Every time I went away for even a second, he would start chirping and missing me. Even if there were others in the room, he was never alone, but he always felt alone when I wasn’t there. That’s how much he loved me.

God, he was the best rooster ever. He’d follow me everywhere. He would’ve fought a T rex for me. He wanted cuddles 24/7. He’d pick me over his favorite snacks. He remembered my car and would wait by the door every time I got home. He’d do this deep, cute sigh when I held him, like the world was finally at peace.

I loved him so, so much too. Some of you might not understand, but I would’ve traded my life for his.

When he was dying, he couldn’t even get up anymore. But he used all his strength to get into a safe spot where he wouldn’t be visible to me. He didn’t want me to see him. I’ve cried so much, I became numb.

When he was sick, I walked away five steps to get him some water, and he was so weak he couldn’t even stand. Yet he saw me move away and he ran to me, flipping over twice because his body couldn’t keep up. A part of me died when I saw that.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so much love from anyone as I did from Bablu, and I loved him just as much back. I love you, Bablu. I miss you.

(sorry for the long message, I just needed to let it all out) thank you if you read it…

She’s fine, for starters We were chillin together and then some dynamite exploded at the nearby land development spot and spooked her

She jumped out the window and as soon as she did a hawk swooped at her so I jumped out after them barefoot

Courtney here ran into the nearby cut of woods and made a sharp turn back towards me. The hawk tried to follow her through the brush and was forced to land on the ground 3 feet away from me. I yelled at its face for a sec and it flew off.

No idea what kind of hawk it was. It had white dappling across its wings on the back and was probably about the same size as the chickens.

Usually the crows chase them off but I guess I need to leave more incentives out to keep the crows around (that the fatass squirrel mobs won’t totally devour :/)

This is the amount of eggs from about 20 hens in a week. We have a large family and eat a lot of eggs, but have recently just started getting an excess for the first time in a year. Now we have 50+ more chicks growing that we hatched, with more in the way. Help! (I love my wife)

Pic 1 and 2 are today, 3 and 4 are March. She had a really rough molt (I think) in March/April, and it’s just gotten progressively worse.

Why does she look like an abomination??

She’s on layer feed, baked egg shells and flaked oyster shells available for protein, they get black soldier fly larvae in the mornings. Random veggie scraps as well, all chicken safe.

The only other thing I can think of is she did bang up her wings pretty bad in March or April trying to get to a top nest box. I have since put up a ramp for her there. She can’t fly or jump, never has. Super anxious personality, always been pretty weird in general like she will pace the runs for a couple hours each evening before roosting and repetitively walks into the hardware mesh. All around a very “off” chicken.

Polish frizzle

Eating drinking pooping normally.

Any ideas? She’s the only one having these problems and they’ve gotten a clean bill of health from the vet this year. At a loss. I guess it’s fine if she’s just /like that/ but I want to make sure she’s good

Everyone, meet Lucy and DuckDuck, the lesbian geese. They both lay eggs but they’ve acted like a male/female pair since March when Lucy started going broody, so here we are.

That first broody spell didn’t last too long, but she went broody again a few weeks ago at the same time as one of my chickens. I was more concerned about the chicken tbh and reached out to a neighbor asking if they had some chicks for sale, and they did but didn’t mention to me that they were already a few weeks old. I got them anyway knowing that the chicken wouldn’t take them, but figuring that a deal is a deal and they’d grow up to be productive flock members anyway. But lo and behold if Lucy didn’t come out the next morning acting like those babies were hers!!

These guys are the best parents I’ve ever seen. The chickens will come over sometimes and try to peck at the babies, but DuckDuck chases them down- there are a few with feathers missing now from trying to harass the chicks. In the mornings, the geese will keep the chickens away from the feeders until their babies have had breakfast. It amazes me how dedicated these guys are.

What’s been most interesting to me is seeing how the chicks interact with them. At first it seemed more like the geese were following the chicks around wanting to play parents, but now, a few days later, these chicks who hadn’t previously been with a mother bird are following the geese and treating them the same way they’d treat a mother hen. It’s been fascinating to watch!!