2 New additions to the family
Discussion
As everyone knows, chickens probably (like Tin man from the Wizard of Oz) have no hearts, or insides. Therefore they weigh nothing. Especially Bantams which are (probably) filled with helium.
We have been on a waiting list and received the call today to pick up two little bantam twins. Photo taken earlier, asleep on my desk, with coins to prove how wealthy I am in coin savings / show relative size.
An adult gerbil of ours weighs in at 90% the mass of this chicken. So you'd need about about ten of these then, if you were having a roast chicken dinner for one person. (Edited to amend this part of the post).
They keep pecking at peoples freckles, thinking the freckles are food which is comical
The new baby bantam chickens were remarkably well received this weekend by the older bantams too (which is superb) despite their tiny size - new new chickens will bed down with the our smaller cluckers in one of the enclosures until big enough to stand up for themselves should they receive any hen pecking from any of the bigger chickens during the night. We cant let them out of our sight either, as cats and seagulls would have them.
They also wont start laying for a while, but when they do, the eggs will be minuscule, I'll post another photo then.
They are hand reared and incredibly tame, can already fly (like a plane which is about to crash) have already been out searching for worms and their high pitched voices still sound just like rodents. "Peep Peep Peep" Poop!
Their peeps are genuinely more quiet than the baby gerbil photo I posted on PH yesterday.
See photo below, once again to prove my cash wealth in coins (and show relative size).
Very happy to have the privilege of looking after them, fluffy legs and all. We'll be helping them find some worms tomorrow evening, just to tease them, the worms worms will be for me! (They arent very good at scratching up dirt yet, where the worms are found, but obviously have chick crumb food until they grow up a bit).
We have been on a waiting list and received the call today to pick up two little bantam twins. Photo taken earlier, asleep on my desk, with coins to prove how wealthy I am in coin savings / show relative size.
An adult gerbil of ours weighs in at 90% the mass of this chicken. So you'd need about about ten of these then, if you were having a roast chicken dinner for one person. (Edited to amend this part of the post).
They keep pecking at peoples freckles, thinking the freckles are food which is comical
The new baby bantam chickens were remarkably well received this weekend by the older bantams too (which is superb) despite their tiny size - new new chickens will bed down with the our smaller cluckers in one of the enclosures until big enough to stand up for themselves should they receive any hen pecking from any of the bigger chickens during the night. We cant let them out of our sight either, as cats and seagulls would have them.
They also wont start laying for a while, but when they do, the eggs will be minuscule, I'll post another photo then.
They are hand reared and incredibly tame, can already fly (like a plane which is about to crash) have already been out searching for worms and their high pitched voices still sound just like rodents. "Peep Peep Peep" Poop!
Their peeps are genuinely more quiet than the baby gerbil photo I posted on PH yesterday.
See photo below, once again to prove my cash wealth in coins (and show relative size).
Very happy to have the privilege of looking after them, fluffy legs and all. We'll be helping them find some worms tomorrow evening, just to tease them, the worms worms will be for me! (They arent very good at scratching up dirt yet, where the worms are found, but obviously have chick crumb food until they grow up a bit).
Edited by Mobsta on Monday 1st July 00:41
As an afterthought and to massage my own ego, I have trained chickens (which as we have already established have no hearts, or insides, and are filled with helium and (probably) have no brains as well) to do the following;
- Commence a sprinting race towards me using a verbal command (reward is food).
- Jump. I can now make a chicken jump up in the air off her tip toes, to grab food.
I feel like a very lucky and powerful military commander / Ivan Pavlov
- Commence a sprinting race towards me using a verbal command (reward is food).
- Jump. I can now make a chicken jump up in the air off her tip toes, to grab food.
I feel like a very lucky and powerful military commander / Ivan Pavlov
bexVN said:
That was a bloody confusing post!!
I thought the second post was going to be of your bantam chickens. After another read I realised it was of a baby gerbil (at least I hope so!!)
Either that or Bantams are not the creatures I thought they were
Original post above is about new Bantams.I thought the second post was going to be of your bantam chickens. After another read I realised it was of a baby gerbil (at least I hope so!!)
Either that or Bantams are not the creatures I thought they were
Gerbil photo reposted (to show size) - my point being, the baby gerbil is actually louder than the chicken, despite weighting 3% as much and being maybe 1% of the size.
If chickens needed milk, they would probably be much louder, to alert their mothers.
As it turns out (with this Lavender bantam) the gerbil is the louder of the two creatures!
I hope this clarifies enough to make more sense now.
bexVN said:
Digger said:
Common knowledge that all (98.2%) of Mobsta's posts are beyond random Bex! 
Very true but still!We have simply not been caretakers to chickens so small before, and this one weighs nothing whatsoever
If we owned an aardvark, Id make a comparison in aardvark terms, to help other aardvark owners understand the weight and volume of a baby bantam chicken...
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