Chicken "mutt" club!!!

[Kassaundra]

A few pics from today

 

[lilypad]

These are my tried & true mutts!!! The rooster (left) is named Pitiful, he was the egg I almost threw away but it peeped deal! The hen had basically abandoned the egg so I figured something was wrong it and I almost threw it out. He was so tiny and frail when he came out and he lived in the incubator for 10 days because the heat lamp just wasn't sufficient for him. He would squeak his little heart out, and when he went quiet for too long I would holler in a high voice "Pitiful" and he would start sqeakin' again! He's a mix of Silkie, Cochin, and small bantam variety. As he grew, I looked into his eyes one day and realized who his mother was, a hen named Loretta (because she was born in a coal bucket!) who I had to have put down (just the day before I almost threw out the egg!) because of heat stroke. She was my favorite hen and bawled my eyes out over her! When I realized this about him - I had to make another pen! LOL Every morning when I let him out of the coop he dances around my feet like I'm his hen

His "other hen" LOL, (right) her name is Skipper because when she was a baby she looked like a penguin - black with a white chest. She's got Silkie in her too (5 toes) and I think her mama was the small Speckled Sussex bantam I had (died in the dog attack I had in June). She's a lot more shy, but very still very sweet!

Aww that is so sweet. I'm sorry you lost the mama hen but at least you still have a bit of her in him How sweet that he dances around you. He is sooooo handsome!
Your hen is beautiful too, love the name Skipper!

 

[lilypad]

A few pics from today

Beautiful

Especially love the 4th picture down, that beard is adorable! What a gorgeous bird!

 

[carrieb62]

Aww that is so sweet. I'm sorry you lost the mama hen but at least you still have a bit of her in him How sweet that he dances around you. He is sooooo handsome!
Your hen is beautiful too, love the name Skipper!

I found a picture of Loretta, Pitiful's mama! She was such sweetie! Greeted me at the pen door everyday!


and here's a pic of Skipper when she was a baby!

 

[Blue Roo]

. This is my beautiful mutt she has a little attitude but she is a great chicken

 

[AvianEgo]

my Wanda is getting close to laying i believe. She is a mutt of a mutt

 

[pdx2phx]

. This is my beautiful mutt she has a little attitude but she is a great chicken

Love this picture! You can see the attitude.....DH and I call that neck shape "thoroughbred neck" (like a horse)

 

[lilypad]

I found a picture of Loretta, Pitiful's mama! She was such sweetie! Greeted me at the pen door everyday!


and here's a pic of Skipper when she was a baby!

Oh how beautiful! Do you know her breed/what she's cross with? I just love chickens with brown eyes!

 

[minihorse927]

my mutt hen and her mutt babies

 

[carrieb62]

Oh how beautiful! Do you know her breed/what she's cross with? I just love chickens with brown eyes!

Are you asking about Skipper? The penguin chick? She's a mix of Silkie, and I believe the small Speckled Sussex Bantam.
And Loretta was a small Dutch Bantam.