what the heck???

There’s this little chickie at work, he came in a couple weeks ago. He was smaller than the other california whites in there, and had odd almost fur, instead of chick fluff. There were little weird red afro-hairs coming out of it. I took him aside into the brooder near my desk that we saved as the combination hospital wing/saved order area. People on backyardchickens.com told me that he’d feather out…but so far, no. He’s got wing feathers, but none of the feathering elsewhere. Still the short fur and the afro-hairs.

I really want to take him home, but he’s really looking like a boy. Boy chickens are loud and annoying. I am talking to my mom about it, and she says that her brother was going to get rich once with capons, castrated male chickens. So I google it…maybe castrating them will make them less roostery? Can’t be too hard, right?

http://www.afn.org/~poultry/capon.htm

Keerist…and people did this at home. There are still “caponizing kits” sold on websites today. For reals. Stab a hole in the side of your chicken for fun and profit!

No, I pass. ugh. I’ll probably still bring him home, but I’m not sure how it’s gonna work.