I’d thought the Sulfur Crested Cockatoos that frequent our bird feeder were the toughest birds in the neighborhood. After all, they routinely swoop in long after other smaller birds have begin to eat and bully them off to assume top status in the pecking order. No one, aside from another Sulfur Crested, has [...]
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Royal Rumble: Chook vs Cockie
Posted in Chooks on 25 August 2007 | 4 Comments »
Feathers of Fury
Posted in Chooks, Journals on 7 July 2007 | 4 Comments »
Dirt Bath
I should have known I couldn’t get away with a comment like “I lost my temper at a chicken” without people wanting to know the full story. So at the risk of making myself look like a complete idiot, here it is.
As usual the story revolves around [...]
Fine feathered cannibals
Posted in Chooks, Journals, Photography on 22 June 2007 | 2 Comments »
White Chook
Our chooks are having a really rough trot at the moment. Something has caused three of the four of them to start plucking their own feathers out and one has pecked herself so much that she’s self-inflicted a deep wound under her own wing. We only discovered the [...]
