"Homesteading Challenge" #3!
Hello Everyone!
I am so happy and excited to be apart of a very fun Homesteading Challenge! This challenge is set up by @kiaraantonoviche and the whole goal is to help bring homesteading people together in go old fashion competition. All we have to do for this #homesteadingchallenge is share some photos of your favorite animal and tell why it is your favorite out of all the others! Don’t forget to put #homesteadingchallenge in your article and put it in your tags!
NOW…
Let me introduce to you our favorite chicken on the homestead! This is spike and he is our Polish Chicken! We were contacted by a person that watches our Youtube channel and asked if we would like to have their chickens. Sadly they were giving up their dreams because being off grid and a homesteader in the Ozarks was just to much for them. We were told that if we didn’t want them then they would just dispatch them and be done with it. We did not want to see any animal be killed for no reason so we told them yes we would take them. When we showed up to get the chickens that we were told were 2 week old Black Australorp Chickens that’s when we seen him! This cute little guy that had the whitest little puff on top of his head! I have never seen a chicken like this in all of my life!
We are so happy that he is apart of our family! He has really made him self at home and he helps keep every thing running smoothly on the homestead. He has taken it upon him self to help us with the feeding chores we have here by following us around to make sure everyone gets their fair share! Then at the end of the day he likes to set up on our laps to get love from every one and when he is done he even puts him self up in the coop! We are so lucky to have spike in our lives today I can’t see us with out him today. Spike is going to be able to live out all of his days here and he knows he will always have a safe and happy life here with us.
Thank you so much for allowing us to share our special little buddy with you! We even told him that we were going to put him on the internet. He seemed very happy with that LOL!
He's a beautiful chicken!!
Thank you so much. The only hard part is trying to keep his top feathers clean. For some reason he does not like bath time LOL!
Isn't it funny how some of our favourites come into our lives quite by accident! He sounds adorable.
He really is great. We are so glad that the person we got him from contacted us. We are so happy that they didnt just go ahead and kill them they were only 2 weeks old!
Oh my, that first picture made me chuckle! He's an impressive looking fellow! Thank you for posting this, you've been entered into the contest!
Thank you! Yea the lady's really seem to dig him!
That's some VERY impressive headgear! He sounds like an absolutely perfect addition to your family.
I wonder if he overheard the part about being 'dispatched' and decided to make himself as useful and polite as possible... Just a thought.
LOL he might have! Then that set him on the path to being a great chicken!
That is one funky looking chicken you have there.
To jest jeden funky szuka kurczaka masz tam (in Polish as well just in case he feels homesick)
I am just updating the list of Homesteaders and Preppers on steemit that you might be interested in :
I will add you to the new list. Hope that is okay?
LOL I went out and told Spike what you said. I must have said the words wrong because he looked at me like I was crazy! That would be cool to be added to the list of homesteaders! I will be checking out your list so I can follow people!
Never trust Google Translate too much - I hope I didn't offend Spike 😊
You are on the new list :
Sounds like you have a well behaved and trained chicken there. LOL
Yes Spike is the best chicken we have!
I had no idea there was a breed of chicken with a giant poof on top of its head. So cool! Is it both the male and females that have the poof?
Yes both the male and females have the poof. The older they get the longer the feathers will get until it looks like long hair on top of their heads.
What a good looking chicken! And what a nice home he seems to have! Good post!