After doing much volunteering at my daughter's ex-primary school with their huge flock of free range chickens the head gave us 4 chicks. 2 turned out to be boys. Poppy our AC was one of them. Rose, the other male, was returned to the school but my daughter sobbed that she couldn't possibly be...
Thank you, Isobel! I had no idea about ayam when we got her, I just thought, "ooh, cute all black chick". The school head (they have a huge flock of free range chickens) told me it was an ayam cemani and that they were quite rare (he breeds a few himself). He is the sweetest chicken I've ever...
Gosh, I'm nervous just being here. You all know your stuff!
I have helped look after a large flock of chickens at my daughter's old school for about a year now. We have recently acquired 4 of our own chickens and just found out that 2 of them are boys!!! They are all about 15 weeks old.
One...