I only buy eggs that are free range and have pictures of happy chickens on the carton
@jordyd Too bad you don't live nearby, I could give you quite the backstory of my chickens and their eggs. Gelato and Flighty, in particular, are hilarious.
@thindol do you have pictures!
@jordyd These are my first four chickens, black australorps, at a few weeks old about three years ago. I can go out and take more recent pics, though two of the original four have since passed. :\
@thindol omg they're so cute
@thindol who's who in this pic
@jordyd That's Cocoa, and this is Cocoa with Flighty. The Easter Eggers all have really lovely coloration.
@jordyd Here's one of the whole flock from just a moment ago (I bribed them with some treats to get in the picture.) Clockwise, it's Flighty's Sister, Cocoa, Clever Chicken, Gelato, Palmer, Dora, Flighty, Greedy Eater.
Flighty and her sister look the same, but Flighty has stood out personality-wise more. Flighty has some scar tissue at the base of her back, so the feathers grow oddly there, from when she went on an adventure in the neighbor's yard.
@thindol the center-bottom
@jordyd Bottom right is Palmer, and her sister Dora is sort of center-bottom in black. Flighty is the golden bottom-center with a fluffy tail.
@thindol tell them they have a secret admirer
@thindol (all of them)
@jordyd Now I know how to lure you to a location.
* posts about public chicken viewing *
* a wild jordyd appears *
@lopsigon I can't say this wouldn't work..
@jordyd I should open a paid service where people (jordyd) can write letters to chickens and recieve detailed backstories and photos. My new get rich scheme.
@lopsigon I can't say this wouldn't work..
@thindol it's hard for me to figure out what the order of names is bc they're not quite in a circle but who's the plump one near the bottom