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Ari Gardens as a VerbHaving a chicken in the house is not as fun as it sounds! 🤣 (don't worry, she's not sick-sick, and I'm not going to die of bird flu. Yet.)Normally I would not have a bird in the house for this long, but we are having some trouble with wound healing.She is stinky, loud, strong-willed, and insists on roaming when I open her cage to clean it, which is multiple times a day because she's messy, and the expensive fucking chicken diaper that I bought her doesn't stay over her butt even though I weighed her to make sure it was the "right" size, so she can't wander the house like she wants to.I can't let her back out into the chicken yard for two reasons: she gets bullied, which is how she got injured in the first place, and the injury is inside her mouth, so if she pecks at the dirt or the crumbly/powdery chicken feed, it gets stuck in the wound. (It is gross. I've had to debride the wound multiple times and that's not fun at all for either one of us.)I've got my "guest" chickens returning tomorrow afternoon, so that is going to ramp up the stress in the chicken yard. I'm thinking, however, if I can get her wound healed enough for her to get back out by the upcoming weekend, the distraction over the next 2 weeks when the guest birds are close by but still in isolation, might actually be to her advantage. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbI've got one chicken that I'm considering renaming Harrison Bergeron. When she was a chick, she was able to escape from almost every place that I put her in, so her name became Houdini.She is from my 2023 hatch, and she is just huge. She's incredibly muscular as well. So, she can hop to the top of a 4 foot fence *with* her primary flight feathers clipped. 😖Every time I get a notification that there's a "person" in my backyard, I look to see if it's her, hopping the fence (usually it is just a chicken roaming along the perimeter fence of their run). It's not really safe for a lone chicken to be out and roaming around, even a heckin' chonker like her. But when she's out, she knows she's misbehaving, and she won't let me pick her up when I approach her. I got torn up the other day running through the brambles and elderberry trying to catch her to put her back in the run.Oh, Houdini. You marvelous chook. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbCinnamon Sugar is getting more tame and more interested in the other girls by the day. Today I was able to let her sit on my legs (rather than holding her tight like a football) and she was making cute little sounds rather than screaming like I was going to kill her. Such progress! So sweet. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a>

Ari Gardens as a Verb<a href="https://ohai.social/@redsad" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@redsad</a> Fediverse chooks! 🥰🐓 <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>

Ari Gardens as a Verb<a href="https://chaos.social/@axwax" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@axwax</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a> candidates! How lovely.

RaiIt's them ... the <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a> (s)(Am I too late for this joke?)<a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://cloudisland.nz/tags/CommunityGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityGarden</a>

Ari Gardens as a Verb<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Utah44" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Utah44</a> She's a candidate for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>! Maybe name her Nicole? 🤣🥰🐓

Ari Gardens as a VerbWelcoming Cinnamon Sugar back home today. 🥰🐓She is one of the babies that my youngest hen hatched from "borrowed"* eggs last year. She's been up at the farm since early August 2024. Since the farmer doesn't want to keep her because she doesn't prefer breeding hens with her feather colors, we got her back! She is another light blue egg layer. Can't wait to integrate her into the flock in a couple of weeks. Right now she's in isolation, and I'm planning to work with her on taming her down a little bit. She's very wild. She got her primaries clipped today and only screamed a little bit bc we were inside and the cat was curious about her. She screamed a lot at my dogs when we were outside. Poor thing. Chickens are very unwelcoming to new flock members. I'm not sure her adopted mom will remember her? But we'll just take it day by day at this point. I'll make sure that everyone's well before I move her containment into the main run. It's a process!* I say "borrowed" because we don't have a rooster, so no fertile eggs. We hatch out a dozen or more hatching eggs from my farmer friend's flock every year, depending on how many of my girls go broody. Then, most of those chickens go back to the farmer or they go to people who want chicks.I'm already starting to encourage my girls to consider sitting. I put wooden eggs in the nest box last week and somebody has been moving them around! So, signs are good that I will have somebody who wants to sit fairly soon. Demand for chicks is really high this year.I know, I should've named her Nicole. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfTheFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfTheFediverse</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a>

Ari Gardens as a Verb<a href="https://social.coop/@afewbugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@afewbugs</a> Candidate for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>!

Ari Gardens as a Verb<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Cheeseness" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Cheeseness</a> Ah super cool! Good candidates for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a> 🥰🐓

Ari Gardens as a Verb<a href="https://mograph.social/@anakin78z" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@anakin78z</a> ... cutie patootie! 🥰🐓<a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>

Joel Michael<a href="https://beige.party/@arisummerland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@arisummerland</a> <a href="https://theblower.au/@frogglin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@frogglin</a> yes! Meet Nugget, Kyiv, and Whoopi <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>

Ari Gardens as a VerbNew hashtag inspiration thanks to: <a href="https://theblower.au/@frogglin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@frogglin</a>My name is Cookie Dough, But you can call me...<a href="https://beige.party/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfMastodon</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chickens</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ChickensOfTheFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChickensOfTheFediverse</a>

LynHi! I'm Millie, but you can call me The Fediverse Chook.<a href="https://theblower.au/tags/FediverseChook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FediverseChook</a>

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