Reviews by ItsWolfeh

These chickens are big, bad, and delicious! We bought two from our local hatchery and unfortunately slaughtered the rooster, though he was incredibly delicious, our hatchery is having problems getting more in this year! He had a generous amount of meat on him, it was juicy and flavorful, and I could even see the oil from the fat bubbling under the skin which made the skin so crispy and delicious, like fried chicken without the oil and deep fryer! The hen we are keeping as a pet and have named Oprah because before she goes to kick another hen's butt, she weaves her head back and fourth like an angry black woman, and Oprah is our favorite black woman. My friends have asked me if she has a book club, I say I think she does, why else would the hens love her so much? We had to bring her in for the winter which really upsetted the other hens, they stopped laying completely (we thought it was the cold of winter until we put her back out and they started laying again), but she just wasn't looking happy or healthy out in that cold. Once she settled in inside, to our amazement, she started laying again! When she was put back outside, our two Welsummers who were ruling the roost in her absence, tried to dominate her. She turned around, grabbed the nearest Welsummer's hackles and scratched her on the back with her foot, they went running off while boking and that was the end of that. They didn't try it again, lol.

She's very curious and friendly, she follows me around and doesn't run from me at all, she even lets me pick her up though she makes sounds about it (which roughly translate to "Omg I'm being abducted" I'm sure). She's also quite the tank, she feels like a good 12 lbs, which is how much my shih tzu x amer. cocker mixes weigh. Their legs also amaze me, they are thick and giant!

She lays large- though large in length than width, still large- light brown eggs. We've even gotten quite a few double yolked from her, which may be bad for anyone incubating or hatching chicks, but we enjoy them for eating!

We have 3 Ameraucana's, one white and two black penciled. The white one has become quite the brooder, but she isn't a mean brooder (I have had hens peck me and hold my skin in their beak until I remove my hand from the nest!) and of the two black ones, one is very very friendly, she will follow you around and talk to you (which I will talk back and this results in just a little conversation while I do my work). All three of them usually lay eggs, two are mostly green while one is more on the blue side. They're normally medium sized but with the right feed and scratch, they can become very big (we've gotten jumbo out of them before)! They are also very cold tolerant due to having no wattles or combs, so we didn't have to bring them in for the freezing winter which was nice. They did stop laying during the winter, but it was because we had to take the head hen out of the flock, once it was warm enough to put her back out they started laying again.