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I have Partridge Chanticlers.
I call them PC for short.

I love the PC's, I just got the hens so I really cannot tell you much about them. They seem docile enough. I have them mixed in with my flock at the moment and do not know which egg or if they are laying eggs. I am guessing they are considering I got 19 eggs for 19 hens yesterday.


I got them from a fellow BYC'er from Minnesota. He had an extra EE rooster with Blue egg gene and I needed one. He told me he was going to give me a PC rooster too. I have to admit I was not that excited. That rooster has changed my mind! I love the PC!

We have a terrible time with frozen combs up here. Not a problem with the cushion comb. He is a large bird. I am thinking of using him over my Dixie rainbows for a larger dual Purpose chicken. I am also going to use him on a couple EE hens as I have almost all blue eggs in my EE's. I hope to get an olive eggs. But I am getting off course..



The PC rooster is now my head rooster. He was very slow integrating into the coop. He was never a pushy rooster and is not yet. BUT he does not allow any monkey business in his coop. He is the perfect gentleman. When treats are found or thrown to them he never eats them. He calls the hens over to eat. I have joked many times he is going to starve to death as I never see him eat.

He is respectful of people, he does not attack the dogs, he watches them but he watches everything. He does not roost high, he roosts low and near the chicken door to the enclosed covered pen. I like a rooster that sleeps by the door instead of up high, to me it indicates he is doing his job. When I put them to bed at night he will let me pet him, but he allows lets me know he is above being touched by a human. ( a little grumble).


I was offered a chance to get two hen from the same BYC'er this winter. I jumped on it. I really like him and if the hens are half as good as he is, I will be more than happy. I am hoping to spread his young all around the state. We have many on the surviving Minnesota thread that want PC's because of what the guy I got them from says about them. The guy I got them from says he has a larger better rooster than he gave me. That must be a super rooster because Ed (my rooster) is no slouch!

The EE I originally wanted I gave away, he did not work out. The "junk" rooster I did not want has changed my view of birds and the PC completely! I will try to find some pictures of them.


BTW I give them 5 thumbs up.


Here he is hanging out in front of the coop his normal spot.




Below is him this fall in molt, he lost some royal looks then!



Below he is just watching during Chicken TV time. He points out treats to the girls. When I rotor till he follows me and points out grubs to the girls.


The picture is not very good below. but I had some new chicks and poults I had just moved from my brooder to FR and tractor living. This was the chicks first day out. He actually sat with the chicks, protected then and let them crawl all over him. You would have thought he was a broody hen. This is normal for him. You see no hens there, just him baby sitting!


The next two picture are what he looked like the day I got him. and he did his quarantine time.




Ed and Ole on day of arrival here. I was so happy with Ole when I should have been happy for Ed.

As far as the originating place of my "flock" I have no idea, the fellow BYC'er keeps tight lips on that. I do know they are not hatchery stock.


Below are my girls during their quarantine time. They are as pretty as a bird can be! Perfect 10s! They have now joined my FR flock,







Wow! Those are beautiful, definitely not hatchery stock, I agree. Your boy reminds me of my Buckeye cock. He would always babysit the young bantam Buckeyes and became their dad for a while and let the Ancona take over the hens. You make me miss him. Are these birds still around?
 
Wow! Those are beautiful, definitely not hatchery stock, I agree. Your boy reminds me of my Buckeye cock. He would always babysit the young bantam Buckeyes and became their dad for a while and let the Ancona take over the hens. You make me miss him. Are these birds still around?
Nope. I am slowly getting rid of all my birds.
 
I have Partridge Chanticlers.
I call them PC for short.

I love the PC's, I just got the hens so I really cannot tell you much about them. They seem docile enough. I have them mixed in with my flock at the moment and do not know which egg or if they are laying eggs. I am guessing they are considering I got 19 eggs for 19 hens yesterday.


I got them from a fellow BYC'er from Minnesota. He had an extra EE rooster with Blue egg gene and I needed one. He told me he was going to give me a PC rooster too. I have to admit I was not that excited. That rooster has changed my mind! I love the PC!

We have a terrible time with frozen combs up here. Not a problem with the cushion comb. He is a large bird. I am thinking of using him over my Dixie rainbows for a larger dual Purpose chicken. I am also going to use him on a couple EE hens as I have almost all blue eggs in my EE's. I hope to get an olive eggs. But I am getting off course..



The PC rooster is now my head rooster. He was very slow integrating into the coop. He was never a pushy rooster and is not yet. BUT he does not allow any monkey business in his coop. He is the perfect gentleman. When treats are found or thrown to them he never eats them. He calls the hens over to eat. I have joked many times he is going to starve to death as I never see him eat.

He is respectful of people, he does not attack the dogs, he watches them but he watches everything. He does not roost high, he roosts low and near the chicken door to the enclosed covered pen. I like a rooster that sleeps by the door instead of up high, to me it indicates he is doing his job. When I put them to bed at night he will let me pet him, but he allows lets me know he is above being touched by a human. ( a little grumble).


I was offered a chance to get two hen from the same BYC'er this winter. I jumped on it. I really like him and if the hens are half as good as he is, I will be more than happy. I am hoping to spread his young all around the state. We have many on the surviving Minnesota thread that want PC's because of what the guy I got them from says about them. The guy I got them from says he has a larger better rooster than he gave me. That must be a super rooster because Ed (my rooster) is no slouch!

The EE I originally wanted I gave away, he did not work out. The "junk" rooster I did not want has changed my view of birds and the PC completely! I will try to find some pictures of them.


BTW I give them 5 thumbs up.


Here he is hanging out in front of the coop his normal spot.




Below is him this fall in molt, he lost some royal looks then!



Below he is just watching during Chicken TV time. He points out treats to the girls. When I rotor till he follows me and points out grubs to the girls.


The picture is not very good below. but I had some new chicks and poults I had just moved from my brooder to FR and tractor living. This was the chicks first day out. He actually sat with the chicks, protected then and let them crawl all over him. You would have thought he was a broody hen. This is normal for him. You see no hens there, just him baby sitting!


The next two picture are what he looked like the day I got him. and he did his quarantine time.




Ed and Ole on day of arrival here. I was so happy with Ole when I should have been happy for Ed.

As far as the originating place of my "flock" I have no idea, the fellow BYC'er keeps tight lips on that. I do know they are not hatchery stock.


Below are my girls during their quarantine time. They are as pretty as a bird can be! Perfect 10s! They have now joined my FR flock,








Any partridge cycen I like to look at, to have Chanteclers in partridge coloration is beautiful.
 

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