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This is a community for people who keep chickens in their back yard. This includes pets, layers, and meaties at levels that are sub-industrial. Family farms and homesteads are included.
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The Fediverse is small. There probably aren't enough people here to make up a community for every type of bird that someone might keep so for now, everyone is welcome. Bring us your ducks and geese, turkeys and quail, Guineas and Peacocks, emus and parrots. The community will be focused on chickens but until there are enough of each bird community for their own community they will find care and comfort here.
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There may be discussions of animal processing. This is part of chicken keeping. If you don't like it leave and block the community.
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RULES:
All Lemmy.ca rules apply here.
Everyone (see rules 4 and 98) is welcome.
If you've seen a question 100 times answer it the 101st time or ignore it. Even better, write a complete, detailed answer and suggest that the mod(s) pin it to the community.
There will be ZERO tolerance for shaming, brigading, harassment, or other nonsense of those who keep and process chickens. You will be permanently banned the first time.
No, it's not a calcium deficiency. Wrinkled eggs are the result of insufficient or insufficiently viscous albumen. Tiny eggs and missing shells are misfires. They happen.
If you post a picture that includes a dead animal or blood mark it NSFW. We're not going to tolerate the militant anti-hunting and anti-farming bullshit here but we're also not going to tolerate people rubbing their hunting and harvesting in people's faces. See rule 98. If you post blood, gore, or dead animals and don't mark it NSFW it will be removed and you might be banned.
[Did you actually think there were 98 rules?]
If you present something as fact and are asked to provide proof or a source provide proof or a source. Proof must be from a reliable source. If you fail to provide proof or a source your post or comment may be removed.
Don't be a dick. Yes, this is a catch-all rule.
The mod(s) have the final say.
Yeah. Exactly.
So I raised American Game Fowl and there is a thing where males would look sorta like females and were referred to as Hennies. They could pop up in other breeds like some Asian breeds and they could be bred for the trait of hen feathers.
We call them Asian ladybirds.
I've never heard that term before.
The good news is that I have finally convinced my wife of the truth about "her" lol.
I have a "Hen" like that. The woman I got him from said he was a laying hen, even had one of the saddles on him. He was a young rooster, and he's huge now.
I've seen several of our backyard chickens experience this. I think it might be an age or lack of rooster thing?
Well, if sesame started as a hen, that ship has sailed lol. I'm fairly sure we just couldn't tell until the visible characteristics were there.
The mix is cochin and orpington, or so the breeder said. So an incorrect sexing attempt on that end is what I suspect, rather than the sex reversal. I've been told that hybrids of that mix can be difficult to sex correctly.
It would be kinda cool if it was sex reversal, though.
The little bugger sure does crow well, and is a holy terror to anything trying to invade the yard.
We've got a young pullet now, too, which should be interesting. We've even talked about a third, though the whole thing started just trying to give this bird a home that would provide feed and shelter. Our neighbor had a batch of chicks, and the neighborhood had to stage an intervention because it wasn't right. This one got sent to a place that couldn't keep it, so we took it in.
I doubted all the jokes about how you end up with more chickens, no matter what you do, but I really didn't think it would happen lol.