spooky donkey herder 👻<p>And one of Legs and Lancer. They simply won’t stop fighting like cockerels and I’ve had to accept that they *are* little cockerels. Sigh. <br>Legs, the one closest to the camera, was laid by Zelda, my buff Brahma. She’s my heavyweight hen, and Presley is a tank of a rooster. Legs got it from both parents, plus his legs have yellow skin with black scales *and* feathers. Legs is happy to fight it out with slightly-smaller Lancer, and I’m expecting a lot of full on rooster dominance challenges in the spring. <br>But at least he’s pretty! Legs inherited his dad’s shade of black, the kind with strong undertones of blue and violet, and his dad’s rust-marked wings. <br>Lancer, in the background, has always been the Other One. Everybody else was distinctive in some way — the unfortunate Jimmy’s Hapsburg jaw, Legs’ gams, all black Contra, and (not photographed today but still alive) Flasher’s unpigmented face and lower jaw plus her one white feather hidden in a wing. Lancer is just the one who’s left by process of elimination, poor guy. At least the chickens hardly care what we think of them! <br> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chickens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chickens</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chicks</span></a></p>