Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Chicken of the Day

Posted on Tuesday, July 15, 2014, by Lily with 6 comments
Meet _____. She is a sizzle, which is a silkie chicken with frizzled feathers. Silkies are notoriously broody, which means they want to sit on eggs and hatch them. As it so happens, _____ is currently broody and sitting on 5 eggs. They're due to hatch 7/24.

One of the drawbacks of having a large flock of chickens is that we don't have names for all of them. But then, there are also chicken owners who don't name their chickens so that they don't get too attached to them because the chickens are also meat birds. Our chickens are currently used for eggs, but at some point in the future they will be also used for (cover your ears, Ava) meat.

In this case, we have temporarily run out of names so _____ is referred to as the black sizzle. What would you name her?




6 comments:

  1. Tess TranJuly 17, 2014 at 4:04 PM

    Uh...Popcorn?

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    1. LilyJuly 18, 2014 at 1:05 AM

      Hahaha! She's gray & black, though, so I don't picture popcorn. But I do love that name! Let us now refer to her as Popcorn! (cue dramatic classical music)

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  2. AudreyJuly 18, 2014 at 8:43 PM

    Feathers McGillicutty

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  3. LilyJuly 19, 2014 at 12:26 AM

    Darnit, Tessie! Call me fickle, but I think Feathers McGillicutty is a more suitable name. Let's save Popcorn for a fair-feathered chickie.

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  4. Tess TranAugust 14, 2014 at 6:23 AM

    Whoever thought up Popcorn as a name?! How silly! ;-p FM is much, much better. Leave it to Audrey to come up with the clever name!

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    1. LilyAugust 14, 2014 at 9:05 AM

      I do love Popcorn, though! With the slew of chicks that we have it will be the perfect name for one of them. Let's pick the lucky recipient when you are here.

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