Last night I was checking out my cochin chicks and I see that the two darkest have started to develope curled pin feathers. I don't want frizzle cochins but it will be fun to watch them develope. If I am lucky I may get a pair to sell or swap.
I say it every day but I sure do like Chickens and you peeps sure do make it even more fun. It has been a Terrible week at work and I've come down with a cold but no worries here - Chicken Therapy, as good as chocolate and less fattening. (I'm not eating MY birds, though I heard they have alot of good meat for a less than 2lb. bird) No, no, no, they have such sweet personalities like puppies.
My second coop arrived by Fed Ex this week and my husband (who works swing shift right now) decided to cheer me up by putting it together while I was at work. It is too big to carry thru the door so he had to build it in the pen. First he had to catch a little Millie Cochin pullet and Jasper, the head roo, also a Millie. DH said Jasper gave him quite a hard time when he tried to catch him. I wish I could have seen that.
DH said when the coop was done he let the pair back in the pen and they walked right in it, Jasper first, as if the already owned the place.
I have decided to name my two Partridge Cochin Pullets Thelma and Louies. They refuse to go in the coop at night on their own.They want to roost on the roof peak. All the others took less than a week of me putting them in and closing the door for them to go in on their own at dusk. I wonder if when it gets below freezing they will go in on their own?
