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Mama and her babies having a bath 🥹

I have a feeling that a couple of these little bebs are roos, which is a bummer but hopefully they'll be easy to rehome if that's the case (I'm also holding off on naming until I know either way bc I don't want to get too attached if they're boys and I can't keep them)

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Soak it up while you can, ladies. It's supposed to rain for the next like week again 🙄

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Anyone else wish their coops could just like clean themselves bc you're tired of being out there 3x a week to scoop out poops? 😩😭 they poop so much just overnight

#chicken blogging #chickenblr #please i am begging #someone else clean them so i can have a break lmao

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LITTLE PEEPERS

#backyard chickens #chickens of tumblr #chicken blogging #chickenblr #chickens #chicken photography #the motel chicks #chicks #praying that none of these are roosters 🙏 i cant tell yet #chickies

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Offer him a flower

Boys love flowers 🧡

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My boy Jackie, isn’t he so majestic? Also, he’s a big baby!

#that's a handsome lad #not my chickens #reblog

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Happy Easter from this absolutely massive double yolker Baby laid the other day????? Gave me a fright when I found it ngl lol

Here is a side by side comparison with a "normal" sized egg (think roughly the size of store bought large eggs)

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Nosy neighbors hehe

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These are who is left of all my original babies 🥹 they'll all be three this year (in June? I think?) My pretty pretty girls

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Tiny boy tiny boy🧡

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Not that anyone asked but in case you were wondering, yes Long John is named after the character from Treasure Island bc he gives off ~pirate vibes~ with his coloring for some reason but also it's bc 90% of the time he stands like this:

And he also has a bad leg so he walks a little bit like he has a peg leg, which Long John Silver also had iirc 🤔

#backyard chickens #chickens of tumblr #chicken blogging #chickenblr #chickens #chicken photography #roosters #long john #gotta get a video of him running too bc it's goofy looking

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Let's take a minute to just look at DB, like she's so pretty

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Sunny day chicken appreciation post 🌞🐔

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Babe wake up, new egg basket just dropped and it is CUTE

#I LOVE IT #it's so cute #chicken blogging #a chicken basket for my chicken eggs hehe

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Hehe Baby's first egg :)

#backyard chickens #chickens of tumblr #chicken blogging #chickenblr #chickens #baby #such a pretty color

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He's such a good boy, showing her that it's safe to be laying eggs here 😭🧡

#backyard chickens #chickens of tumblr #chicken blogging #chickenblr #chickens #roosters #chicken video #long john #baby

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🚨NEW BEB🚨

Let's welcome the newest addition to The Motel Chicks, Baby!! She is as her name says, a baby 🥹 I estimate her to be roughly 9months old. She's been with us now for two weeks.

& while she did immediately integrate herself to the flock, the rest of the hens still haven't fully accepted her and chase her off a lot. Will put her full rescue story under a read more in case it gets rambly bc her situation is one I had Opinions on lol

So I'm not saying I kidnapped her, but I'm not denying it either shhhh 🤫 she showed up in my neighborhood last July, with two others & at the time they all looked like they were around 3 months old based on their size (compared them to pics of my girls when they were the same size). I assumed they were strays since we get a lot of random chickens just wandering around in my area bc lots of ppl keep them but don't keep them as contained as I work to keep mine.

Anyway turned out they belonged to someone & she had bought them for her kids (this is how I acquired the rest of my birds, bc the neighbor's girlfriend kept buying them and then they broke up and she left them all and the neighbor didn't really care about them much) so they were just left to wander the street for a while

They didn't have a coop until a month or two later. I never saw anyone close it up at night.

One day, there were suddenly only two of them. Not surprising. We have hawks, raccoons, tons of dogs in the area. Something probably got her.

It's been a few more months now. The 2nd baby turns out to be a rooster. Which is good, at least the little hen will have protection now. They started hanging out in my front garden more and more often.

I maybe started to feed them since I never saw them being fed, there weren't any dishes or anything out for them aside from one small water thing.

Fast forward to the beginning of January: the rooster has suddenly disappeared overnight. Presumably taken from the coop that had still been left open 24/7. Baby was now alone & there were more hawks flying around lately and it had been really cold and raining.

So I did the only thing I could think of: I opened my fence and let her into the yard with my flock (ahh bad biosecurity i know but I'd been keeping an eye on her this whole time and checking her poo for weird stuff, she's healthy)

She slept in my coop that night, and the next night and the next... Nobody came asking after her like they had before when I caught all 3 thinking they were strays. It's been weeks now and not a peep from anyone wanting her back.

So I guess she's mine now! She's very sweet.

#backyard chickens #chickens of tumblr #chicken blogging #chickenblr #chicken photography #the motel chicks #baby #I'm only calling her Baby bc she comes when I call out “come here baby” lol