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Because I'm spreading backyard chickens!!!
This fellow used to have chickens as a kid in Puerto Rico. He has been my patient for almost 20 years. His grand daughter (also a patient since she was a kid) and her husband just bought a "farm" out in Avondale and it has a decent coop of sorts but needs to be upgraded. He's told his granddaughter that he will bring her some hens and a roo. This mutt EE roo is doing the deed on the younger hens but he isn't crowing! (Hatched Sept. 11th.)
We just got the Blue Americana pair from Pips and Peeps and so he will eventually become "Our roo".
After checking hindends tonight in the coop he is getting the following.
3 Barred rocks. I'm certain that one is laying but she is MEAN. I'm not certain the other two are laying.
1 Easter egger hen that lays a cream colored egg about once a week. (not the best of layers)
1 RIR.. who lays an egg with spots and a grainy shell. She is also mean.
and DS #4 hated me, but Neckie (a partridge rock) still hasn't recovered fully from being broody and I can tell she isn't laying at all.... she finally starting to get a little color back in her comb so maybe she'll start laying for them and perhaps go broody with the mutt EE roo.
And then finally the mutt EE roo.
So they are getting 7 decent looking chickens that I think have potential but I'm basically culling my flock.
The 80 year old wife says that before the year is up she is cooking the roo... then she explained to me in Spanish, how she dispatches roosters. It was pretty comical the way she explained it... she has this technique where she puts her thumb up under his head on the back and pushes and then pulls both feet. She then says she hangs him head down for a minute and then lets the blood drain. It was grossing my assistant out.
So this is a way for them to get back into chickens and to introduce their great grandchildren to them.
He used to own a mechanic shop and redid one of the transmissions on an old Nissan Stanza that we had. They are great people and I've told the grand daughter to go onto BYC to find coops to look at to improve what they have.
They are so happy that I am simply giving them these 7 birds.
I think that there are folks here on BYC who have been very nice to me, so I'm returning the favor.
Plus, we wanted to add some exotic breeds and I'm hoping that the three Cuckoo Marans that are in the bator and developing are all pullets!
More of an explanation than you were looking for I'm certain.
This fellow used to have chickens as a kid in Puerto Rico. He has been my patient for almost 20 years. His grand daughter (also a patient since she was a kid) and her husband just bought a "farm" out in Avondale and it has a decent coop of sorts but needs to be upgraded. He's told his granddaughter that he will bring her some hens and a roo. This mutt EE roo is doing the deed on the younger hens but he isn't crowing! (Hatched Sept. 11th.)
We just got the Blue Americana pair from Pips and Peeps and so he will eventually become "Our roo".
After checking hindends tonight in the coop he is getting the following.
3 Barred rocks. I'm certain that one is laying but she is MEAN. I'm not certain the other two are laying.
1 Easter egger hen that lays a cream colored egg about once a week. (not the best of layers)
1 RIR.. who lays an egg with spots and a grainy shell. She is also mean.
and DS #4 hated me, but Neckie (a partridge rock) still hasn't recovered fully from being broody and I can tell she isn't laying at all.... she finally starting to get a little color back in her comb so maybe she'll start laying for them and perhaps go broody with the mutt EE roo.
And then finally the mutt EE roo.
So they are getting 7 decent looking chickens that I think have potential but I'm basically culling my flock.
The 80 year old wife says that before the year is up she is cooking the roo... then she explained to me in Spanish, how she dispatches roosters. It was pretty comical the way she explained it... she has this technique where she puts her thumb up under his head on the back and pushes and then pulls both feet. She then says she hangs him head down for a minute and then lets the blood drain. It was grossing my assistant out.
So this is a way for them to get back into chickens and to introduce their great grandchildren to them.
He used to own a mechanic shop and redid one of the transmissions on an old Nissan Stanza that we had. They are great people and I've told the grand daughter to go onto BYC to find coops to look at to improve what they have.
They are so happy that I am simply giving them these 7 birds.
I think that there are folks here on BYC who have been very nice to me, so I'm returning the favor.
Plus, we wanted to add some exotic breeds and I'm hoping that the three Cuckoo Marans that are in the bator and developing are all pullets!
More of an explanation than you were looking for I'm certain.
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