Hello All,
Our local kindergarteners hatch chicks every Spring. They usually find a good home with one of the teachers or a brave parent, and this year was no exception - except that, once the shavings settled, there were two littles left behind. The children all know that I have chickens, so they begged the teacher to ask me to take their "class pets" to my house.
Have you ever tried to say "No" to seventeen adorable five-year-olds trying really, REALLY hard to get you to "save their pets?" I lost that one, so I now have two Kindergarten Dropouts in the brooder. They're good company for my lone three-week-old Nankin chick ... who promptly showed me that the hopeful "she" is not. That teeny tiny little baby dropped one wing and shuffled sideways at these two huge monsters ... who both backed into a corner peeping at him. When they finally came out, "Pippi" - now "Pippin" did a full blown rooster strut across the brooder cage. It was like watching an eight-year-old boy flex his "muscles" in front of a mirror. Hysterical, if a bit disappointing.
So - now I have a problem (or, two problems actually - a red one and a black one.) I "do" bantams. I have never had full-sized fowl before (except ducks,) so I have no idea what these two are or if I can successfully integrate them. Gender is not an issue. If we end up with a cockerel (or two,) my sister will take him/them. She's got 30 layers and no roo.
So, can anyone tell me what these are? They're from a commercial hatchery, so they're either purebred something-or-others or a common hybrid. I'm thinking RIR on the red one, but the black one has me a bit confuddled. At best guess, for now, they are two-three weeks old, probably closer to two.
Siri/Sirius and Ginny/Ron
Our local kindergarteners hatch chicks every Spring. They usually find a good home with one of the teachers or a brave parent, and this year was no exception - except that, once the shavings settled, there were two littles left behind. The children all know that I have chickens, so they begged the teacher to ask me to take their "class pets" to my house.
Have you ever tried to say "No" to seventeen adorable five-year-olds trying really, REALLY hard to get you to "save their pets?" I lost that one, so I now have two Kindergarten Dropouts in the brooder. They're good company for my lone three-week-old Nankin chick ... who promptly showed me that the hopeful "she" is not. That teeny tiny little baby dropped one wing and shuffled sideways at these two huge monsters ... who both backed into a corner peeping at him. When they finally came out, "Pippi" - now "Pippin" did a full blown rooster strut across the brooder cage. It was like watching an eight-year-old boy flex his "muscles" in front of a mirror. Hysterical, if a bit disappointing.
So - now I have a problem (or, two problems actually - a red one and a black one.) I "do" bantams. I have never had full-sized fowl before (except ducks,) so I have no idea what these two are or if I can successfully integrate them. Gender is not an issue. If we end up with a cockerel (or two,) my sister will take him/them. She's got 30 layers and no roo.
So, can anyone tell me what these are? They're from a commercial hatchery, so they're either purebred something-or-others or a common hybrid. I'm thinking RIR on the red one, but the black one has me a bit confuddled. At best guess, for now, they are two-three weeks old, probably closer to two.
Siri/Sirius and Ginny/Ron
