Companihen
Songster
I've wanted to start this for ages... mainly as a track record for myself and my chickens but got very delayed in doing so!
I'll introduce my hens I age order.
Grey - or sometimes called grumpy grey. She is a lavender bantam of some sort, shes the eldest chicken here and very much the boss. She is approximately 6 years old and wasnt hatched her. The other two bantams, a pekin and a polish who came with her dies several years ago. Ive had her 4 years. She's a regular broody but I've only let sit once. Fiesty character, doesn't like pple contact and fits into both the groups we have here, probably because she is hatch mum of Armand the junior cockerel here.
Greedy and Black - my two copper marans. They also came 4 years ago but were not hatched here. Greedy has more copper on her neck and the larger of the two. Greedy is very friendly and docile and second in command amongst the hens. Black is more shy. They are approx 5 years old and lay irregularly now. I miss their dark brown eggs. We had one more copper maran hen but she passed away last autumn, when she was molting she became very unwell with some nasty discharge out her vent. She didn't pick up and passed one night. These hens are both in Percy Blakeny aka scarlet pimpernels group.
Percy Blakeney - aka the scarlet pimpernel. He hatched here in from purchased incubated eggs. He hatched on .... and has stayed ever since. Lovely cockerel, has always accepted my presence but would always go for my 2 little boys and my husband or father in law who tends them when we are away. He tidbits his hens, mates respectfully and has been a good cockerel for us. A good strong crow which he likes to share with the universe. Last autumn after he went through the molt he seemed to develop some strange condition where he wobbled his neck all the time and occasionally fell over in the coop. He would always get up again and it didn't seem to bother him too much but he definitely lost his spark a bit after this and isn't so active and seems to let his son Armand take main role. I hope he is ok. He has a true lady love in his little hatch mate Cleopatra, he never leavers her side and has ensured Armand know she will never be his hen.
Cleopatra - a beautiful tiny little straw colored bantam with emerald ears and dark comb, we incubated here. Such a friendly hen, always by your side and never stops talking. If you're sitting reading in the sun she's soon up on your shoulder cheeping away. A lovely hen. She would love to be broody some day but Grey would never allow it. She hatched xxx too
Esmerelda - our black and white frizzle, bought her as a 6 week old chick. She is the same age as Percy and Cleopatra, they had a frizzle cockerel in their hatch batch but unfortunately he was killed in a fox attack that Percy and cleopatra survived. She's a fiesty little frizzle, like to think she is boss and doesn't let any wild birds share the garden with them! Not very friendly with pple. She had a terrible molt last autumn and looked really bad for a while but thankfully all her fluff soon returned
she's in Percy group and his second favorite. Although she does risk his wrath sometimes and joins Armand
XXX to be continued XXX
I'll introduce my hens I age order.
Grey - or sometimes called grumpy grey. She is a lavender bantam of some sort, shes the eldest chicken here and very much the boss. She is approximately 6 years old and wasnt hatched her. The other two bantams, a pekin and a polish who came with her dies several years ago. Ive had her 4 years. She's a regular broody but I've only let sit once. Fiesty character, doesn't like pple contact and fits into both the groups we have here, probably because she is hatch mum of Armand the junior cockerel here.
Greedy and Black - my two copper marans. They also came 4 years ago but were not hatched here. Greedy has more copper on her neck and the larger of the two. Greedy is very friendly and docile and second in command amongst the hens. Black is more shy. They are approx 5 years old and lay irregularly now. I miss their dark brown eggs. We had one more copper maran hen but she passed away last autumn, when she was molting she became very unwell with some nasty discharge out her vent. She didn't pick up and passed one night. These hens are both in Percy Blakeny aka scarlet pimpernels group.
Percy Blakeney - aka the scarlet pimpernel. He hatched here in from purchased incubated eggs. He hatched on .... and has stayed ever since. Lovely cockerel, has always accepted my presence but would always go for my 2 little boys and my husband or father in law who tends them when we are away. He tidbits his hens, mates respectfully and has been a good cockerel for us. A good strong crow which he likes to share with the universe. Last autumn after he went through the molt he seemed to develop some strange condition where he wobbled his neck all the time and occasionally fell over in the coop. He would always get up again and it didn't seem to bother him too much but he definitely lost his spark a bit after this and isn't so active and seems to let his son Armand take main role. I hope he is ok. He has a true lady love in his little hatch mate Cleopatra, he never leavers her side and has ensured Armand know she will never be his hen.
Cleopatra - a beautiful tiny little straw colored bantam with emerald ears and dark comb, we incubated here. Such a friendly hen, always by your side and never stops talking. If you're sitting reading in the sun she's soon up on your shoulder cheeping away. A lovely hen. She would love to be broody some day but Grey would never allow it. She hatched xxx too
Esmerelda - our black and white frizzle, bought her as a 6 week old chick. She is the same age as Percy and Cleopatra, they had a frizzle cockerel in their hatch batch but unfortunately he was killed in a fox attack that Percy and cleopatra survived. She's a fiesty little frizzle, like to think she is boss and doesn't let any wild birds share the garden with them! Not very friendly with pple. She had a terrible molt last autumn and looked really bad for a while but thankfully all her fluff soon returned
she's in Percy group and his second favorite. Although she does risk his wrath sometimes and joins ArmandXXX to be continued XXX
