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I will mostly just have some cute photos of my birds that are just for patreons :)

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volume UP to experience what its like to have a bluray crow on your lap

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Ah a oooooooooo

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Reminds me of - actually i cant find a picture so imagine one of those pens that have a fuzzy at the end of them but the fuzzy thing is zebra patterned.

I do like micro rotational grazing for my flock. I think thats one of the benefits of these ugly chicken wire runs, they are easy to move around.

I just moved the coop this morning so here is where it was

Grass is very dead and stressed lol

Here is the place the coop before it was in that location, I moved it here in this area specifically because of the violets and clover, the chickens disturbing the grass help other species get a leg up, already you can see it coming back up faster then the grass

And here the coop was before that, unfortunately I cant really show where they were before this because the neighbor keeps mowing the lawn. Next year I think im.going to section off a square so they stop doing that. Anyway it grows back but with more diversity and more lush. I highly recommend doing this for you chickens.

Even though this is a small space you still get the same benefits.

Less fly load so I only have a few flies flying around in the summer bothering my birds because they are more worried about where the chickens were and not where they are.

Less parasite load, by moving the coop around it helps prevent a heavier potential worm load from happening though I do worm my birds every other season.

Its good for the soil and the plant biodiversity since they disturb the soil and leave it open for more plants to take root.

Grass is also cooler then dirt and help keep the birds from heat exhaustion.

Fresh pasture is also very healthy for chickens and good natural enrichment.

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She said-yoink

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Fantasy Chicken question- I usually reference bantams (because I know people who have or had them)

If a chicken had the magical ability to find treasure, would it be what humans consider treasure (money) or what THEY consider treasure (bugs, eggs, etc?). A mix?

...What would chickens consider treasure

I think it would be fat juicy grubs and worms.

However chickens are birds and birds like shiny things so maybe a character that likes shiny coins. Chickens dont have great beak dexterity so they arent as well known for it compared to corvids since they almost never carry non food objects.

Life so hard being a kitty cat

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Honestly i wonder if Beepers pale wattle and comb read as androgynous to other chickens and thats part of the reason why so many roosters are immediately aggressive towards her when meeting her for the first time.

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Oh baby fight

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Its amazing how much they can grow in a few weeks :) Cellphone is still on the left and Terabyte on the right.

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Very important to duel your brother every single day.

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Let's roughhouse and track gunk into the house with brother.

Cellphone is officially Beeper sized and approaching his maximum growth. Terabyte is... a small potato on legs

The chickens are concerned about the evil snake attached to me

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do you think if chickens were sapient and self-aware, they'd pierce their wattles the way humans pierce their ears?

(This topic is about anthro and fantasy chickens not real chickens)

Unlike our ears which are mostly cartilage, wattles are fleshy, have a very high blood supply, and are packed with nerve endings.

A piercing there would be VERY difficult to heal proper and prone to infection. Unfortunately I could easily pull up irl chickens who have suffered piercing-like injuries through their wattles and they never heal nicely or all the way through from what I have seen. Some chickens tend to produce a lot of keratin-like growths on their comb and wattles on or near the injury site as well which could add another layer of complication to healing.

I know this is tragic information for those furries out there whose chicken characters have pierced or gauged combs and wattles. However keep doing whatever makes you happy with your designs.

I think in an anthropomorphic society I feel as though those kind of body mods on chicken WOULD still be possible but they would be seen as a more on the "extreme" side of body mods since it would require surgery and long term healing to get the desired look. I think it would be on par with dubbing which strangely I rarely if ever see people with chicken characters who have been dubbed which is the removal of the comb and wattles.

I personally think anthro chickens would be more interested in changing their feather color and appearance/shape especially since their feathers can be used to infer gender. I think spur and tail accessories would be thing as well.

I do think there are 2 piercings a chicken could get if they desired. One would be their version of a septum piercing where a piece of jewelry loops through their nares. We already have an analog with Peepers. The other would be wingbands because again we already have an analog irl.