You want to hear about my chooks? Well.. where to start?!
I'll start with my father's flock. He has 6 ISA Browns (about 8 months) and 5 white Leghorns (about 2 years), all girls. The Leghorns were hand-raised, the ISAs were not, and the Leghorns are called Vegemite, Honey, Treacle, Peanut Butter, and Floppy.
My sister has ducks (she says they're less dangerous than chickens because they don';t have pointy beaks). She has 4 Muscovies (about 6 months, we think 2 drakes and 2 ducks) called Butterscotch, Banana, Lemon, and Sherbet; a Khaki Campbell trio called Coco-Pop, Cadbury, and Chocolate Mousse; and four Indian Runner hens, Blackie, Beauty, Whitie, and Beatrice. Perhaps lcukily, the Indian Runners came pre-named. I'm sure you can see what my sister uses as insperation for naming creatures. Apart from the Muscovies, they're all laying age, but we're only getting eggs from the Runners at the moment. We think the Khaki Campbells have a hidden nest somewhere...
Two Muscovy ducks with the drake in the middle.
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The Khaki Campbell drake, a KC duck, and a Runner duck.
Whitie - I think she's so sweet-looing. More than the others, anyway. She's a bit of a loner - she doesn't hang around with the other ducks very much.
A whole bunch of ducks - the Khaki Campbells and the Indian Runners.
I have one large (huge) run (see http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/667924/new-coop-and-yard-has-now-been-named-the-amazing-poultry-pen. The strange person called 'Jedika98' is my younger sister. Just so you know...) and two much much smaller enclosures. The ducks live with the majority of my chooks in the big yard.
Starting with the further small enclosure, I have four cockerells. Golden Boy, Golden Girl (yeah, yeah, I know...), and Snowball, are all Sizzles, about 19 weeks. Big Bird is a 'mystery chick', probably a silver-laced Wyandotte cross barred Plymouth Rock, about 14 weeks.
Clockwise from top left: Golden Girl, Snowball, Big Bird, Golden Boy, and General Flopsy (the rabbit). The only way I could get them to stand still was to give them food, hence the way they're standing.
In the closer small enclosure, I have five pullets. Pumpkin is a 'mystery chick', a buff Cochin cross (not sure of her other half), and she's 14 weeks. Spot and Suzy are white Leghorns, 9 weeks; Raven is an Australorp, 9 weeks, and Orange is an ISA Brown, 9 weeks.
Again with the food - because if I don't bribe them to stand still, they crowd at my feet and then I can't take a photo. Anyway, clockwise from left: Pumpkin, Raven, Spot, Suzy Snowflake, Orange, Midnight, Sugar aka The Evil Rabbit, and Excalibur.
In the big yard, I have 19 hens. There are 6 lavender Araucanas (collectively called the 'Lavender Ladies'... you know, like the 'Pink Ladies' from Grease?) but only one is named, Toe-Nails (strange deformed toe-nail issue... mostly I think from being mistreated by the previous owner. Another seems to think it's a rooster and keep cock-fighting. There are 6 white Leghorn bantams, also unnamed except for Houdini (can you guess why she's called that?).
Then I've got a light Sussex cross silver-laced Wyandotte of about 27 weeks, called New Girl, and a light Sussex cross something of about 22 weeks, called Light Sussex. I have an ISA Brown cross white Leghorn of about 30 weeks called Sandy, and two Ancona hens called Polka and Dot. Finally, there are two Sizzles, Caramel and Toes. Toes has four toes on one foot and five toes on the other. Both Sizzles are 19 weeks.
Sandy posing for the camera.
One of the Leghorn bantams, and New Girl.
Polka and Light Sussex.
Not a very good picture, involving Toes, Caramel, and Dot.
A white Leghorn bantam and an Araucana.
And finally, a picture of some of the eggs we get. It's not all (but most) and they're labelled, so I hope you can read it!
Wow... that was a long post! In my defence, you *did* ask!
Edited by Rachel96 - 7/18/12 at 12:49am
