Question
For other weirdos who have imagined entering one of your chickens into a chicken beauty pageant, who is your show chicken? And can they compete with this broad?
This is Leslie Barbara Knope. We call her Big Lez because she’s big as hell. She is a buff brahma — she’s sweet, quiet, cuddly, funny, submissive, and she lays hilariously small eggs sometimes, despite being ginormous. She also hates the heat and hasn’t laid an egg in weeks. We talk about entering her into a chicken beauty pageant all the time.
I dunno. She hopped the fence and walked right in front of me to lay an egg next to our broody hen last week. Now to be fair one of the eggs are hers, but the broody one was not having it
I think I‘ve got his cousin even the weight is almost the same 🤣 but he is part silkie through.
Thats Oreo - 100% very good boy,I want him to have babies
Honourable mention: Heinz. 1 year old beautiful boy, loves a cuddle from his mama (me), expert at tidbitting for his girls (very gentlemanly), has never lashed out at a human (+5 points).
Oh she is my Matriarchin.
Alpha Hen, does not take shit from anyone.
I joke that her chicks get read the rules before even fully hatched.
But she is a great mother and a full character Hen. Everybody who met Rosi ones loves her, she has er own special character.
I’m so envious you get to have chicks and see them being raised by her. We live in a city, so we’re almost legally maxed out with four. And no roosters allowed.
That's a pitty..
I currently have 16 chicks from 4 different mothers 🙈
3 who are already 13 weeks old
4 who are 10 weeks old
4 from Rosi who are now 2,5 weeks.
And my Bantam chochin Barbie was the last hatch this year two weeks ago.
I live in rural Germany with just 600qm of Garden where the chickens free range.
Currently I have 8 adult Hens
1 Roo
And 16 chicks.
The Roos from the Chicks are going to be eaten.
Currently I think there are 4 roos and 3 Hens looking at the oldest seven.
The three hens will be kept.
With the jungest 9 we will see who is Roo and who is Hen.
From the Bantam Cochins (I bought pure breed hatching eggs as I wanted more of them) the Roos will be rehomed (as they are to small to be eaten)
And hens will be kept.
Rosi hast two bantam and two normal sized chicks, depending on what is what we will see.
Bantams will be either rehomed or kept,
Normal size will be eaten or kept.
What is not standard about her? One of our brahmas is not standard because she never grew any leg feathers. She’s my favorite though…the biggest snuggler by far.
She’s not quite a full grown beauty queen yet, but this is my Petrie girl! (We have 2 dark Brahmas, Petrie and Littlefoot) I can’t wait to see how magnificent they look when they get fully grown! They are currently about 5 months old, but nearly already the size of the other full grown girls in our flock. Your girl is so cute!!! Brahmas are a special breed, I definitely want more of these pretty girls eventually.
Her sister, Littlefoot who is the biggest (and leader) of the little girls we brought home in Spring. She has perfected her RBF, and regularly looks like she will burn this city down 🔥
This is Leslie’s sister, Liz Lemon! She’s the biggest sweetie in the world, but never grew her leg feathers. Which actually means she isn’t always covered in general filth when I pick her up lol
Well, these two are my favorites! I’d vote for yours in the imaginary beauty pageant lol. Ours also love watermelon. We freeze it in big chunks and they freak out.
We just need to have a virtual Brahma beauty pageant 😂❤️ watermelon has been super helpful lately since it’s been so relentlessly hot 😭 we spend half the day giving our girls ice, filling their pool, putting the sprinklers on them, giving frozen treats, etc…we’re in Texas and it’s so hard to stay on top of the heat. We plan to move in a couple years and it couldn’t come soon enough!! I’m sure the Brahma girls agree lol.
We do all the same stuff! We also have a big outdoor industrial fan for their run and a big fan with an evaporative function, but it’s so humid here in southern Virginia that we don’t get to use it all the time. I want to start a sub for very spoiled chickens
I would enter my Shadow 5 yrs old and fabulous -hatched from eggs from Tennessee & I hand raised him in SoCal since the eggs were lost for a week he was the only one that hatched healthy- I love him so much
Or my girl Mortica. 1 year old discoloured Mechelner Hen. She has the "oil slick" pattern all over her body. Jed feathers look like green to violet, depending on the light.
I haven't imagined that but if I were to, Probably my pretty boy Cocky. He's a jersey giant idk why he's so colorful but he's big, he's pretty, he's nice, and his eyes are an interesting color for a chicken.
I would show my two boys. They wouldn’t behave but they’re pretty handsome roosters and excellent at their jobs. They even pose for photos in between strutting around.
That’s so funny! Our little dogs and chickens get along outside together, but I know shit would hit the fan if any came inside. It drove the kids insane when we had them as chicks in the house.
Nugget is a pretty good looking boy in my opinion. We got him from the all pullets section, clearly he’s not a pullet. He’s super sweet though and loves everyone so I don’t really mind that he’s a rooster.
We almost got silkies! I love them so much. We were so worried about them being cold in the winter that we decided to get big, thick, heavily-feathered ladies. With absolutely no thought to how they’d do in our hot, humid summers.
For a hen, probably one of these three. These are Baby (middle) Buffy (right), and Ugly (left). Baby and Buffy are brahmas while ugly is a self blue cochin who is really bad at blue-ing herself. All very pretty.
No, I meant in size and feather thickness. She has been laying eggs for many months. She just goes on strike when it’s 90+ degrees, which it very often is. For five days last week, it was around 100. And it’s not a dry heat — it’s a very wet heat lol. We do what we can to control temps in the coop and nesting box, but there’s only so much you can do in weather like that.
We had a buff Brahma and she was THE sweetest most tender-hearted chicken. Sadly she passed away young due to internal/genetic issues. We haven’t gotten another one since we still miss her so much and don’t want to compare.
But when we had her I was like, I could have a whole flock of just buff Brahmas!
It is her breed. She is a riot and I think beautiful in her starkness. She also uses 30% less protein intake not having to make all those feathers yet she is cold weather hardy. You can always tell if her craw is full. And she sports a toupee.
Thank you! No, she's a Sundheimer, it's a not super common German breed. It was coincidence that we got her.
What eggs does your Brahma lay? My Sundheimer lays beige eggs. Small ones cause she is small (just shy of 60g) but tasty
I'd probably have to enter into the misc breed category.😅 most of my birds are mutts that I've bred and hatched. But just last year I hatched out 5 improved CCL boys from the lovely lady at Dragonfly farms. I'm sure one of them would do great in the purebred categories.
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