(on the phone) "Oh, no, I wasn't taking to you, I was talking to my chickens."
(while making dinner) "Oooo, the chickens would love this! I think I'll make extra so they can have some."
(during an afternoon thundershower) "Oh no, the chickens are going to get wet. Throw some corn around in...
Your kid is adorable!
If you notice in the pics I posted above, that's what both my male and female looked like when they were hatched. The feathers that came in are red. I'm fairly certain yours will look like mine very soon. I personally am hoping that the female takes on the broody trait...
I think I may be wrong in my description of the Phoenix sexing method. My neighbor raises Phoenix and helped me. Perhaps it was actually the female that had the darker lines around her markings. So sorry, I can't remember now. But the legs were a dead give-away.
I am curious if you hatched those RIR/Phoenix eggs and what they look like. My Golden Phoenix apparently got to my RIR hen and below are pics of that result. When the babies were born, they looked just like Golden Phoenix should look. I had one female and one male and, since they were a...
Here's my roo, Sissy. He came from the pullets bin, but by the time we figured out otherwise he was already responding to the name. And, shucks, just look at him...he is obviously man enough to not let something like that bother him. LOL!