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I have five Silkie Bantams. They're small, stupid, docile, don't mind being manhandled, and can be carried anywhere. Above all else they're fuzzy! Roosters are still loud, but the hens are really quiet. And docile to hell. Our rooster attacks anything that moves. We had a guy weedwhack the inside of the pen. Aragorn (I didn't name him, my sis did) was attached to the guy's leg, while the guy was looking at Tori wondering if by some means he had killed the hen because she wasn't moving. He picked her up and placed her in the already cleared area (with Argy still rip on his pant legs like a rabid dog) and went about his business. The damned hen didn't move from that spot even after he left. He came down and asked us to check on her. My sister took Argy out to an open air flea market...he apparently stayed in her arms the whole time without spazzing. People thought he was a black poodle until they came up to pet him.
They're interesting creatures. Our polish hen follows you around the yard and waits for you to move things so she can inspect them for creepy-crawly delicacies. Before we had the pen cleared, Argy would hide in the ragweed. Whenever you walked past the pen he'd run through the weed 'trees' making funky ass noises...all I needed was the danger highvoltage signs and you'd have the velociraptor pen reenacted. Throw a vegetable in the pen and watch the chickens mimic their dinosaurian ancestors. I think they find it invigorating to drop down on their prey and rip it apart. They get fed everyday...they're just really love their veggies.
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