Look at the crazy bird in my feeder

lol cute!! Do you have a farm or something? I see there's another chicken (white feathers?) behind him!

Is that a Belgian Bearded D'anver? So cute!

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I wouldn't quite call it a farm (we don't make any money off it), what we have is about 20 birds (ducks and chickens) 4 dogs and a  few dozen fruit trees and bushes.

 

What we have is a lot of "pets".

seriously sounds AMAZING! I love all sorts of animals so this sounds like a great home to me! 

I went to Cali for a few months and there were great fruit trees everywhere! My neighbor had a grapefruit tree, a friend's aunt had a fig and orange tree and my aunt had a lemon and pear tree. I need to live somewhere I can have fruit trees!

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Is that a Belgian Bearded D'anver? So cute!

i love that you know a specific type of chicken, you're full of such interesting info lol!

omg she is cute! And I find birds frightening usually lol.

LOL I raised all kinds of chickens for years until we moved back within city limits and I grew up with my mother having raised chickens so we had all kinds over the years standards, bantams and exotics.

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i love that you know a specific type of chicken, you're full of such interesting info lol!

Yeah, how did you know what breed she is?

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Is that a Belgian Bearded D'anver? So cute!

i love that you know a specific type of chicken, you're full of such interesting info lol!

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Is that a Belgian Bearded D'anver? So cute!

Yup, I love them! Not only are they cute, they're very friendly and curious.

 

Want some?

 

My friend has some chicks he wants to get rid of.

Oh I'd take your friend up on that if I didn't live in city limits now. I love chickens.

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I just got these little guys in the spring. They are so sweet, I can't believe there isn't a pet craze for these little banties. Of all the chickens we've had, this breed is the most pet-like in my opinion. Cute, friendly and tiny, what else could you want?

Not a Cochin bantam rooster. Mean little... brats. LOL

depends on which city limits. I'm smack-dab in the heart of Oakland,CA, and we're zoned for chickens.  Drive-by shootings, IKEA, and Pixar are blocks away, and I have 5 chickens! 

But I don't think San Fran. is zoned for it. Brooklyn, NY actually allows it though!

Super cute chicken by the way!

LOL You know what's funny about that... I live smack dab in ag land surrounded by potato fields, corn fields, apple orchards, cherry orchards, hops (for those that don't know the leaves use in beer) and grape (wine) country yet we're restricted from having chickens and rabbits (legally). How stupid is that? Even Seattle allows backyard chickens so long as it's hens and they allow up to four or five hens.

How adorable!! I have a muscovy duck and if we had a hanging feeder we'd probably find her up there too! She's the smartest not-so-little thing haha.

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How adorable!! I have a muscovy duck and if we had a hanging feeder we'd probably find her up there too! She's the smartest not-so-little thing haha.

Aren't the ducks with the funky looking heads and dark green feathers?

Oh you're Indian Runner Ducks are so cute!!! The one on the right looks to be a Drake due to the head coloring but I saw both have female names. I love ducks, we had Peking... fat things because I couldn't butcher them. I do remember my tomato garden that year being the BEST tomato garden we ever had because I allowed the ducks free reign in the garden. lol *sigh* I miss my birds - turkeys, ducks, chickens, peafowl.

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Muscovies have "caruncles"  red growths on the faces, which I myself don't find attractive. But it is true that muscovy ducklings are about as cute as it gets. I have not had this breed of duck, but many who do really love them.

 

I have 2 runner ducks (daisy and louisa mae) and 2 mini silver appleyards ( finneas bean and alvin) and 1 mixed breed duck (theresa).

 

The runners are our favorites!

 

They are super super loyal and intelligent! Nicky follows me around everywhere (I've had her since she hatched) and she likes sitting under the kitchen table during meal times and just wags her tail and holds her head up high, waiting for scraps like a puppy. She's got quite a refined taste too haha. Won't eat anything but the freshest fruit and veg and scraps of meat/fish, and the occasional bit of pasta. She'll turn her head and walk off like a spoiled child if you try to feed her something she doesn't think is worth eating. 

Runner ducks are adorable and kind of creepy at the same time to me haha. It's just the way they stand and suddenly freeze and stare at you out of one eye that gets me.

I'd really like to keep a cayuga duck or two or even a goose (I find sebastopols GORGEOUS) sometime in the future - when I have a bigger yard!

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Aren't the ducks with the funky looking heads and dark green feathers?

Yup. They pretty much look like slightly smaller turkeys. Nicky didn't get a face full of red lumps like most muscovies do though, hers just looks like a superhero mask. It's quite cute haha. She has a white head and belly but black tail/back/wings that glow green and purple in the sun.

I love that you have all these animals that I love. It's always nice meeting another person who has chickens and ducks so you can understand my obsession with those types of birds. :D

If I'm ever in that neck of the woods I might take you up on that. :D I love meeting new people. :)

Adorable!