Finally named and growing strong and bigger everyday!
Let me formally introduce you to:
Winnie. Winnie is, I have learned, a Black Cochin. Winnies particular markings,the white tipped chest feathers, are a trait specifically bred into the Black Cochin's at Baker Creek Farm. Winnie is a singer. She coo's and trills most of the day in a soft lullaby like voice and will sing along with you.
Phoebes( pheebs). Phoebes is a full blood Phoenix. The phoenix are a mix of wild and tame. Phoebes is elegant in her gait. She is a great flyer and very much enjoyed being the first to sucessfully light on the perch we put up in the coop. She likes to do it herself so to speak, and when the coop is opened she enjoys flying down to the ground herself, though so far has no intrest in going any further.
Captn' Pugwash. Captn' Pugwash is out to please! He is a cross of a Black Cochin and a Buff Cochin. Captn' Pugwash dilligently works on his doodle doo every morning at 6:20 AM. Not quite ther' YET, but he has 2 other roosters in the distance that keep him on his toes. He has taken up dancing for me in the mornings when I go to the shed to gather up my frozen tea or lemonade for my lunch bag. He keeps a close watch on the ladies. If you pick up one of the girls and walk he will follow you anywhere they go.
His name came from a Canadian friend I have made online, who's daughter used to watch a cartoon about Captn' Pugwash and his ship the Black Rat. I was looking for a pirate name for him, but nothing to serious, and this fit him perfectly!
We are working with them a little everyday to try and have them ready to go with us in October to a Pioneer Gathering. They are very tame.
Favorite pasttime is rolling in dirt, so much fun to watch them vie for the center spot in a dirt hole they create.
We are getting ready for winter and will soon have a box to go in the coop to give them shelter.
So far we have only a few potential preditors show intrest. A neighboring cat and dog, which were pretty easy to scare off with a scattered round or two(lol). No harm done, and no return.
Our biggerst concern, Hawks, have not been a problem. The chicks are quite smart and stay undercover or underfoot when they are out of the coop.
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Comments: 9
Oh, they are beautiful birds, Lou Anne! You named them like pets... They are Show Birds, right? Whose eggs you might consume but they are Not intended for the pot, right?
It's an extraordinary coincidence it seems, to have two of my connections to suddenly start broods of chickens almost at the same time...
Here's Tonia's articles, check them out... First One and The Latest Update
I WILL GO AND check Tonia's crew....how fun....
I wish the other 3 had survived but I think now it was probably human error not really understanding how to care for such small chicks..
but I think we really lucked out and got some beauties....
I thinj one fo the funniest things about these three is...once the roost for the night...NOTHING wakes them up..so we keep an extra ear open at night right now...till we get the shelter box made...but their coop is up off the ground about 5 feet, fully inclosed in wire with a solid tin roof and extra screens on the floor that can be taken out a cleaned, but keep them safe from attack from below....
what I don't know yet is actualy how big these will get..right now al three together barely equal the size of most full grown chickens I have seen...
we will surely know by next spring...if they are bantam or not....
but I kinda like them small as they are....