Catch-up

Wow! It has been a long time since I last posted. Well I plan to post more often again now I will have some time over the winter. We have been so busy with chickens; hatching them, growing them on and selling them. Oh and not selling them too ;).

We still have the five trouble makers roaming the garden (when not on lockdown), but we now also have a few others ... We have expanded the group of five to seven. Rocky went broody and raised two little girls so they are now a permanant part of the flock.

The chicks as they were at week one and still with Mum.

Then we have our breeding stock of Polands for Spring. The demand has been so high that we have had to increase form four to seven and plan to get another hen as soon as we can find the right colour.


We have Alwyn who is a smooth feathered chamois, then we have his girls Havisham - pure white frizzle, Cruella - silver laced frizzle and the new girl when we get her.

Havisham

Cruella

Alwyn

We also have Boris (named after his hair-do) and his girls Morganna, Marion and a creole hen yet to be named.

Marion

Boris

These are my babies and they are treated as such. Boris - who is rather skitsy - is slowly starting to allow me to touch him, but only when he is in the mood. Morganna is no where near tame as of yet, but she will come round. Havisham has such an amazing hair-do that she can never see where she is going so we are trying to get her used to scissors (not an easy task, they just seem to know that they are dangerous!!!) so that we can give her a hair cut.

This beauty doesn't have a name yet, we are waiting for her full colours to show themselves.

Morganna

Right what's next? Oh yes, what other birds do we have. Well for the time being I am raising a couple of partridge silkies and an appenzeller in the hope that at least one will be able to go in with Alwyn every now and then to cross breed and give the Polish girls a break.

Sarge has fully matured into a beautiful and very good-at-his-job cockerel - and boy do we know about it :( He decided a couple of weeks back to show me who was boss and failed epicly. He is now in permanant grumpy mode. Every now and then he wonders up to me, feeling frisky with a run full of girls not playing the game and takes his stress out on me. He has realised that he has spurs and is fairly good at using them I have to say. I have been known to squeal very loudly as he charges me ready for the kill! He has on two occasions now felt contact with my shoe in a bid to keep him off of my legs! It seems to have worked he has not even tried to challenge me in ten or more days.

Sarge on patrol

I will up-date again in a day or two with pictures of the other birds we plan to use for breeding in Spring and I will also tell you all about my Serama!