Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

Not just the girls!
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[kattabelly]

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That's a great picture

My Rocks are gorgeous and they know it! Caught red-beaked stealing rose hips from the plot they really aren't allowed to go in and she still couldn't resist striking a pose for the camera.

Some of the others though...

 

[Mother of Chaos]

It’s really sort of a shame that their mouths have that permanent grimace. It makes them look always ranging from grumpy to homicidal!

Trudy’s a hatchery Rock, and some of her should-be black feathers are more of a deep charcoal brown. She’s definitely a character. She has really grown on me during the last few months though, as the younger two have been integrating. She’s always seemed several ants short of a picnic, but somehow she has weathered her unexpected molt well, much calmer than usual, and even laying.

Sometimes I have to remind myself to be open to surprise!

 

[kattabelly]

And then there's Donald