Cool Your Chooks This Summer + Albino Chickens

Rise & Shine!

We're knee-deep in summer now. Howz about you sit back, relax, and let BFL's Daily Dozen be like your local ice cream truck — here to help you chill out and bring you something sweet.

On the topic, check out our menu for today:

1. Cool Your Chooks With Frozen Treats

2. BFL’s Chicken Of The Week

3. Albino Chickens!

4. Cluckin’ Good Memes

Cool Your Chooks With Frozen Treats

For some, it’ll be their first summer with chickens. For others, it’ll be their fiftieth.

No matter how long you are into your chicken-raising journey you can always take more care during the summer months when the temperatures can get more heated than a family monopoly game.

With some record-setting high temperatures due to settle in this summer, it’s as important as ever for us chicken owners to be well-equipped to tend our chooks during any period of extreme heat.

Although the essentials are shade and fresh, cool water, we’ve got another weapon in our arsenal.

Frozen treats!

Our Favorite Frozen Treats For Chooks

Of course, it’s no use freezing any old treat. Those high-protein treats like mealworms or crickets don’t tend to get cold enough for your chickens to get the “cooling” benefits – they are just too dry.

It’s the treats that are high in moisture that work the best.

The perfect frozen treats: frozen fruits!

Any kind of frozen berry works great. But, our go-to when we’re facing the hottest days is actually a “chilled” (not completely frozen) watermelon.

Some chicken owners also go as far as to freeze some of their chicken’s normal feed too. Keep this one in your back pocket – you’ll never know when you’ll need it.

BFL’s Chicken Of The Week

This week’s Chicken Of The Week is this incredibly rare spectacle: the Albino chicken, sent to us by Elly (thanks for sharing Elly!).

Although perfectly healthy, Elly reported that this wee-one does appear to have impaired eye-sight, likely a side effect of the Albinism.

Still, it’s not often we see Albino Chickens, so it was a treat to share this with you all.

***WANTED: ALL CHICKENS***

At BFL we want to show off our community’s chickens! After all, these loveable fluffy-butts are why we are here in the first place right?

So we would love to see yours.

Simply reply to this email, provide a decent picture of your beloved chook, their name, and something that makes them special and you could have your chicken featured for the whole community to see!

(By sending us your pictures you consent to us using them in the email, of course).

Albino Chickens!

To highlight just how special Elly’s Chicken Of The Week is, I simply had to share our research into Albino Chickens.

Albinism is a condition where the body is devoid of melanin. Melanin is a pigment that gives skin its various tones.

Albino chickens are white in color (from their feathers to their skin), have much paler combs and wattles, and of course have the infamous albino trait: red/pink eyes.

Why Are Albino Chickens So Rare?

So why are Albino chickens so rare? So rare it’s even hard to find a verified recorded case and pictures of said albino chickens.

Well, that’s because the gene responsible for albinism is extremely rare AND it’s recessive.

This means the only way for an albino chicken to ever exist is if its parents BOTH carried the albino gene – and even then it’s still rare for the offspring to receive and present as an albino.

We feel honored that Elly was able to share pictures of her albino chicken and her experience with us!

Cluckin’ Good Memes

See You Next Sunday!

That’s all folks!

Whether you think we’ve delivered a perfectly cooked poached egg or you think it was a bit hard-boiled, we would love to know!

Send us an email letting us know your thoughts and something we could have done better. We hope you include a picture of your beloved chook too 🙂.

Remember – keep yourself and your flock cool this Summer.

Thanks for reading,

Blake,
BFL’s Daily Dozen