Hello everybody,
Last year a friend gave me 10 eggs of her mixed Brahma flock to hatch and all the eggs produced lovely birds. I kept one rooster and 2 chickens, one of them is now the mother of 3 one week old chicks. Her sister, a big black Brahma is just beautiful, but has layed only three eggs so far, all the size of a quail egg. They were born the beginning of July last year. Never mind, she can stay anyway.
But the big boy is just wonderful, he looks great, impressive and proud, but is in fact a very sweet guy. Such a soft and nice character! Two days ago he was attacked by a sparrowhawk, who killed two of my neighbours chickens last week, when our dog saved him by barking the predator away. Our rooster jumped into my arms, scared to death, poor boy. Never seen poultry behave like this.
The flock can walk wherever they want, here in our French hamlet, I lock them up at sunset. There is a risk, I admit, foxes, hunting dogs, birds of prey and even human thieves, but freedom gives the birds a superbe health.
Mister Big likes to pose as well:
Last year a friend gave me 10 eggs of her mixed Brahma flock to hatch and all the eggs produced lovely birds. I kept one rooster and 2 chickens, one of them is now the mother of 3 one week old chicks. Her sister, a big black Brahma is just beautiful, but has layed only three eggs so far, all the size of a quail egg. They were born the beginning of July last year. Never mind, she can stay anyway.
But the big boy is just wonderful, he looks great, impressive and proud, but is in fact a very sweet guy. Such a soft and nice character! Two days ago he was attacked by a sparrowhawk, who killed two of my neighbours chickens last week, when our dog saved him by barking the predator away. Our rooster jumped into my arms, scared to death, poor boy. Never seen poultry behave like this.
The flock can walk wherever they want, here in our French hamlet, I lock them up at sunset. There is a risk, I admit, foxes, hunting dogs, birds of prey and even human thieves, but freedom gives the birds a superbe health.
Mister Big likes to pose as well:
