06/19/2025
Comment to share your cuddliest flock members!
Our little Popcorn, AKA Poppy, AKA Pops! She’s a soft cull from a dear friend’s Ermine Ameracauna project but you better not tell Pops that! To me, she’s perfect in every way! While she won’t be part of our Ermine breeding project, she’s my chicken soulmate and everything I need right now during a tough life transition.
I have A LOT of chickens and there are only 2 of us with mostly just me (Jen) hatching and brooding the chicks. We have no little hands holding and cuddling our chicks all day. Because we can’t frequently handle all of them, they are tolerant of us and come for hand fed treats but not the cuddly type. Pops on the other hand, came to us at 3 or so weeks old from a beautiful family full of chick cuddling children and I built on her wonderful start in life to continue to foster a relationship of trust with her.
She’s integrated into the big girl flock now and thriving. She’s the ONLY chicken I have ever had that runs up to me just to be picked up and cuddled.
