Pipd's Peeps!

Name: Freia
Nickname(s): Frey
Sex: Female
Variety: Chocolate
Egg: Small, tan and speckled
Origin: Triple Creek Farm in North Carolina
Hatch Date: June 9, 2022
Random Fact: Freia is very particular about how she is picked up and will SQUAWK if not picked up properly!



Name: Ida
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Female
Variety: Mottled
Egg: Smallish and tan
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 21, 2018
Random Fact: Ida is one of the sassiest birds in the flock. Doesn't matter if you're 3 times her size, she's the boss!




Name: Mack
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Male
Variety: Chocolate
Crow: Cock-a-DOODLE-oo - higher-pitched
Origin: Triple Creek Farm in North Carolina
Hatch Date: June 9, 2022
Random Fact: Mack started turning white when he was 5-6 months old, but lost most of his white feathers when he had his first full adult molt at about 17 months of age. Now he just has one white feather left in his tail and a few stray white feathers on his face.




Name: Sylvie
Nickname(s): Sylv
Sex: Female
Variety: Mottled
Egg: Smallish and tan
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 21, 2018
Random Fact: Sylvie is the only Cochin I've owned to have greenish eyes into adulthood.


Name: Cazak
Nickname(s): Cazzie, or just Caz
Sex: Female
Variety: Blue
Egg: Large and slightly darker brown with speckling
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 16, 2016
Random Fact: Caz is the calmest bird I think I've ever owned. Never in a hurry, always just moseying along.
Name: Flurian
Nickname(s): Flury, Flury-Floofy, Floofles, Floofle-Poofle
Sex: Female
Variety: Splash
Egg: Large and brown with speckling
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 16, 2016
Random Fact: Flury takes herself very seriously. That's probably why I refer to her with so many random, ridiculous nicknames!
Name: Nikita
Nickname(s): Kita
Sex: Female
Variety: Silver Gray
Egg: Medium-large and pure white
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 21, 2018
Random Fact: Kita is high-strung and rather flighty for a Dorking. She sleeps every night in the rafters of the coop instead of on a perch!



Name: Lydda
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Female
Variety: Silver Gray
Egg: Large and pure white, often rounder
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 16, 2016
Random Fact: Lydda will be your best friend in the world if you offer her something to eat.


Name: Myrna
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Female
Variety: Silver Gray
Egg: Large and pure white, often pointier
Origin: Meyer Hatchery in Polk, Ohio
Hatch Date: May 21, 2018
Random Fact: Myrna is a very laid back and quiet hen, and she prefers you to be quiet around her as well. If you move around too much or make too much noise, she's out of there!



Name: Perdita
Nickname(s): Perdeet, Perdi
Sex: Female
Variety: Red
Egg: Medium-large and pure white
Origin: Sand Hill Preservation Center, Calamus, Iowa
Hatch Date: estimated to be April 3, 2017
Random Fact: Perdita's left leg is twisted and completely unusable. She gets around by hopping on her right leg.



Name: Tessa
Nickname(s): Tess
Sex: Female
Variety: 'Dark Gray'
Egg: Medium-large and tinted white
Origin: Sand Hill Preservation Center, Calamus, Iowa
Hatch Date: estimated to be April 3, 2017
Random Fact: Tessa is known around here for her catastrophic molts. She even won second place in the 2018 molting contest during her very first adult molt!




Name: Achernar
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Male
Variety: Fawn Silver Duckwing bantam
Crow: "a-DOOdle-a-DOO" - high-pitched, somewhat shrill
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: March 27, 2019
Random Fact: Achernar has one of the most distinct crows of any of the males I've owned. I can always tell for sure when it's Achernar crowing!





Name: Feldon
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Male
Variety: Khaki Silver Duckwing bantam
Crow: "cock-a-DOO-dull" - high-pitched, shrill
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: June 4, 2020
Random Fact: Feldon is the shyest OEGB I own, fleeing from any human attention when given.





Name: Louis
Nickname(s): Hopalong
Sex: Male
Variety: Khaki Silver Duckwing bantam
Crow: "squawk-a-DOO-DULL" - high-pitched, somewhat shrill
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: June 5, 2020
Random Fact: Louis has crooked toes on his left foot. Ironically, his right leg went bad so he hobbles around using mostly the foot with crooked toes now.



Name: Mallow
Nickname(s): Mal
Sex: Male
Variety: Fawn Silver Duckwing bantam
Crow: "cock-a-DOO-DULL" - high-pitched, somewhat shrill
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: February 23, 2021
Random Fact: Mallow hates cameras! Every time I try to take pictures of him, he flares up his hackles and goes on the attack!




Name: Rigel
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Male
Variety: Khaki Silver Duckwing bantam
Crow: "a-DOO-Dull" - high-pitched, shrill
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: March 27, 2019
Random Fact: Rigel was once so bullied by his brothers that I had him mixed into my main flock for a while. The boys eventually made amends, and now they all live together happily in their own coop.




Name: Sumi
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Female
Variety: Silver Duckwing bantam
Egg: Tiny and tinted white
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: June 5, 2020
Random Fact: Sumi is, to date, the only Silver Duckwing OEGB I have ever been able to hatch. Oddly enough, despite the colors having equal odds of being produced in the cross I was doing, I got a ton of Khakis and only one plain Silver Duckwing.




Name: Vega
Nickname(s): none
Sex: Female
Variety: Fawn Silver Duckwing bantam
Egg: Tiny and tinted white, usually especially oblong
Origin: Hatched from my flock (Winston x Sybil)
Hatch Date: March 27, 2019
Random Fact: Vega does not know what personal space is. If I'm outside, then she wants to be on my lap, or on my shoulder, or on my feet, or into whatever I'm trying to do, or pecking my ankles, etc.

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