Awwww muppet feet! I love those birds, Theresa! What awesome colors! I made the tough decision today to put an ad up to rehome 3 of my d'uccle roosters and mister feather duster. I love them all, but there's no way I can make room for that many when they're grown. Also, that frizzle is getting on Phantom and Polka Dot's nerves. He's not the perfect gentleman that Phantom raised him to be, and he's stressing mommy out by constantly trying to hump her while ripping feathers out of her beautiful crest. He's a dick.Ha ha. That's exactly what happened here too. Last summer when i bought my four chicks at the feed store,the last four they had with booted feet. Literally overnight i went from what i thought was one roo and four pullets to " holy s----! we got three boys and a girl." It was crazy! But theyall get along. They look like muppets now with the fuzzy toes. Especially whenthey do the little "rooster stampy dance", or when two of the brothers stand off. They stamp up to each other beak to beak with heads lowered and neck and cape feathers open like an umbrella and just stare at each other. Its great to watch. I yell at them to knock it off and their fine. So far. They are about 7 months i think, i gotta look at the calendar to be sure, but they are getting all grown up. i was hoping to hatch out some chicks this spring but odds are good that i would wind up with more mini roosters and i don't know what i would do. i cant/wont kill them i would probably try to keep them and just make sure they were separate from their daddys. My yard is going to start looking like a country farm soon. Thats ok, the sun was out here yesterday and it was so nice to let the birds out for playtime. Anyway i gotta go. Take c are.See - muppet feet! This is before I knew what they were - back when I was naive enough to think one cockerel and three pullets. stupid me
