KoriAndBocboc
Chirping
- Dec 22, 2024
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So I got a new chicken last week. She is a single 8 week old Bantam I got as a companion for my bunny that was surrendered to me by an old coworker before she moved and had to get rid of the bunny. Bunny doesn't seem too impressed with her, and Bocboc has bonded to me instead.
I plan on getting her a second bantam friend in a few months once I get her indoor home all set up properly. Right now she's just in a 10 gallon tank with a heat lamp. But she spends the majority of the time I'm home out and about with either me or my 8 year old girls. She is very very social. Much more so than I would have thought. I know little about chickens. This is all new to me. I know a bit about birds. Eye pinning, pruning, how their feathers grow and how they need help sometimes breaking up the feather sheaths or whatever they are called. But I have a lot of learning to do. Eventually when I move I want to get a small backyardcoop of quail.
This chicken though, is needy! Lol
She wants to sleep with me every night. If I leave her in her tank she will let out these long calls, that to my unknowledgeable ear, sounds like she doesn't want to be in there alone. And I don't want her stressed out. When I open her cage she flies to my shoulder almost immediately. She's taken to sleeping with me on my pillow, that I sewed a little nest in the side so her poops stay off me and the bed until I can get her a diaper. But she still ends I cuddling in my neck sometimes, while adorable, but of which is not ideal.
She prunes my neck hair sometimes too.
I'm pretty sure she loves me. Here are some pics and videos of Bocboc. Don't judge the mess in the background. We are digging the whole house apart
I plan on getting her a second bantam friend in a few months once I get her indoor home all set up properly. Right now she's just in a 10 gallon tank with a heat lamp. But she spends the majority of the time I'm home out and about with either me or my 8 year old girls. She is very very social. Much more so than I would have thought. I know little about chickens. This is all new to me. I know a bit about birds. Eye pinning, pruning, how their feathers grow and how they need help sometimes breaking up the feather sheaths or whatever they are called. But I have a lot of learning to do. Eventually when I move I want to get a small backyardcoop of quail.
This chicken though, is needy! Lol
She wants to sleep with me every night. If I leave her in her tank she will let out these long calls, that to my unknowledgeable ear, sounds like she doesn't want to be in there alone. And I don't want her stressed out. When I open her cage she flies to my shoulder almost immediately. She's taken to sleeping with me on my pillow, that I sewed a little nest in the side so her poops stay off me and the bed until I can get her a diaper. But she still ends I cuddling in my neck sometimes, while adorable, but of which is not ideal.
She prunes my neck hair sometimes too.
I'm pretty sure she loves me. Here are some pics and videos of Bocboc. Don't judge the mess in the background. We are digging the whole house apart
