This is the only cockerel I see, of course, I am not looking at them head on. It is just like anything else, buy an expensive dog and it is always at the vet etc. get a mutt and they seem to be invincible. Ended up smiling looking at the pic with the colorful chicken towel backdrop. We will give that chicken photographer a run for her money!
This is the only cockerel I see, of course, I am not looking at them head on. It is just like anything else, buy an expensive dog and it is always at the vet etc. get a mutt and they seem to be invincible. Ended up smiling looking at the pic with the colorful chicken towel backdrop. We will give that chicken photographer a run for her money!
Here are the 4 others.. they are very active and vigorous. Ignore the little Cream Legbar cockerel in some of the pictures. He was the only Legbar egg I had at the time when I set the Marans eggs so I threw it in with them. Of course it hatched to be a cockerel, such is my luck. He cried his head off when I took the Marans for their photo shoot and left him by himself so I let him tag along. I used a dish towel as a back drop.
They have minimal white on their faces and their hatch down looks good to me. The one with the red band was from the group of darkest eggs and has barely any white at all on its face. The chicks with the blue bands are from the big hen with the dark hackle @RedBanks. The chick with no band was from the 3rd group of eggs. I will take pics of the eggshells also and I will wing band these shortly, but put the zip ties on them to mark which eggs they came from. They are a cute little bunch and I am very happy with them.
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Yes.... but now it is the "studio" with a chicken motif backdrop!Haha!! Technically it was still on the kitchen counter! Good ol' trusty kitchen counter.
