Chatterbox: Down to Earth

Welcome to the thread of the gallus gallus domesticus, or domesticated chicken! You can call it 'the chicken thread', to make things easier.

I'm pretty sure you know what to do here; just post stuff about chickens!

I'm trying to develop a new breed of bantam. I have no idea if this shceme will work, but I bred my white cochin bantam (Mr. Peabody) with some brown leghorns a while back, and the resulting chicks grew up to be SO pretty (their coloring is really unique). I thought it would be cool to try making a real breed from them. The two chochin-leghorns' names are Sherman and Sweet Pea. I'm going to see what their chicks look like and decide my next course of action after that. (They're half-siblings, but inbreeding chickens is okay up to seven generations.)

Also (no surprise) I'm hatching out some more chicks! They're supposed to hatch this Monday, but I hope some come out early. I already have a customer who wants to buy some!!! *sniffles because selling adorable day-old chicks is not very fun*

Kay, here's a question--does anybody else have troubles with aggressive roosters? We've got one cowardly white leghorn named Foghorn Leghorn. He'll attack you when you turn around and run away as soon as he hits you. It's really annoying, but he mostly stays in another pasture, thank goodness. There's no cure for aggression in roosters. As long as you kick them every once and a while (it's not cruel, because if they kick you, you HAVE to kick them back or they'll think they defeated you, and then they'll just get meaner) they mostly stay away from you. Unnnnless they're like Foghorn, and then they'll just sneak up on you when you aren't looking...

And now for the trivia question: What's the smallest breed of chicken in the world? :P They're some of my favorites! The answer is below, so don't look accidentally!!

Caution, answer below! 

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The Malaysian Serama, or just simply the Serama! They're horizontal breeds, meaning their posture goes up instead of vertically. Their wings, eyes, and feet are traditionally supposed to be arranged so that you could draw a line straight down through them, and the back is merely a V shape. As adults they can sit on your palm! I recommend looking up a picture of one. They're adorable!

Ok, I'll leave it at that! Feel free to add on! (We're watching Trolls tonight, on a totally different subject. I hope it's as good as the trailers say it is!)