Hello from Camano Island, Washington

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spartanchick

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May 12, 2013
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I've been lurking a lot and have decided to join. I have always wanted chickens, and now that I have moved to the country, I can finally have them. I started kind of big, 16 little feathered friends that I had bought in March of different breeds, salmon favorelle, barred rock, black crested polish, silkie, buff orpington, light brahma, easter egger, cochin bantam, cuckoo maran, speckled sussex, australorp. I wanted to try them all!
 
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great way to learn the breeds and decide which you want to stay with
 
Congratulations on your flock. I, too, am on Camano Island, and am just starting out with a single little hen. She was the only bantam hen in a flock, and was so low in the pecking order that she was not only being brutally pecked on, but kept from getting near the feed and water. So I offered to take her. Now I'm looking for a couple of other little adult bantam hens who might get along with her. Do you have any suggestions of where I might find a pair?
 
Congratulations to you too. That was very kind of you to take on a bird that was being picked on by the other flock. I had just given away my sweet silkie that turned out to be a rooster 2 weeks ago. I only wanted to keep one rooster and the one I chose had a girlfriend joined at the hip so I decided to keep him. There is a post on Craigslist for someone in Stanwood that is selling their Bantam Cochins that are one yr old. Just make sure you watch them for awhile before deciding the get them. I had 2 Bantam Cochins that were aggressive that I had to get rid of then I read that the Bantam Cochin breeds can be that way. You can mix bantam and full size if the full size have a sweet temperament. I will let you know if I hear of anything.
 
Thanks for the congrats. I saw the Craigslist posting about the Bantam Cochins and sent a reply. Haven't heard anything back with respect to actually checking out the birds. I was a little skeptical to start with because I'd heard that the Cochins can be aggressive, and the last thing I want is for my sweet little Henny to be the pecking post for more hens. What I'd really like are a couple of little Silkie hens, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has them.

In truth, Henny isn't the first bird we've rescued, although she's the first chicken. We rescued a little Senegal Parrot about 19 years ago. She was about 2 years old at the time. She's about 21, now, and still with us. About 9 years ago we rescued a Blue and Gold Macaw who was about 12. And we still have him. Both of our parrots are amazing creatures with very distinct personalities. And that raised our awareness of the intelligence and personality traits of other birds. When some neighbors needed someone to watch their flock of chickens for them when they aren't out here, I was more than happy to do so. That's where I found little Henny. The neighbors were very concerned for her, and I fell in love with her. That's when my husband and I went out and got a chicken coop kit, put it together, and constructed a pen to extend the area--and when our neighbor dubbed me 'bird rescuer'. What we have is a very small arrangement, for now. And though it is just fine for one little hen, we expect to enlarge the pen area as we add at least a couple of others. I was really hoping to find a couple of companion hens for Henny soon so that she wouldn't be alone in the coop during the cold winter. But it's not looking all that hopeful. May have to resort to finding a way to set up some source of warmth for her. In the meantime, I purchased a book on chickens, and have been researching then online.
 

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