The adventures of Barbara (BR)

[MrsChickendad]

The Love Child

The blizzard was dragging on and on. The chickens were hunkered down staying warm and certainly did not want to go outside. Barbara and Leroy sat on the roost and snuggled. Leroy waited patiently while Barbara laid her daily egg, and they scratched around the floor for extra goodies the Food Man put there to give them something to do. He brought them a squash and they had a party.

In the house, the Baby Chickies were getting to be Teenage Chickies. They were now four weeks old and growing feathers in very strange places. They were all beaks and big feet. Two of the Teenage Chickies were growing odd feathers, considering their mama (Rockette the White Rock bantam) and daddy (Hot Shot, the black Cochin bantam). They were meant to be companions for the Mille Fleur Cochin chicks so there wouldn’t be any lonely babies, so their parentage wasn’t all that important.

The Food Lady had already told Barbara’s readers that she and Leroy would not be going to the Honeymoon Hotel. But she is beginning to think that perhaps Barbara and Leroy slipped an egg into the Bantam’s nest. Is this their Love Child? He is almost plaid!

 

[Fuffy]

They sure have you sorted out, Mrs Chickendad! What are you calling this new breed? Barbroys?

Hope you are ok in your big storm. For what it's worth we are getting it too

 

[MrsChickendad]

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I was thinking you would be getting it pretty soon, too. Most of it here went south and east of us, Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York really got lots. Hope you can dodge it for the most part!

I saw an Antiques Roadshow from Jersey the other day on BBC and wondered if you were there!

I like the "Barbroys" name. Only problem is that parents are white & black bantams and not Babs & Leroy—Hot Shot and Rockette. I just wasn't expecting barred bantams!

 

[specklesmom]

The "love child" is adorable!!! Barbara and Leroy aren't going to the Honeymoon Hotel!! Nooooo! Ever? Just think of the babies Barbara and Leroy would create! Love your writing and the continued story of Barbara!!

 

[Fuffy]

No, I didn't go to the Antiques Roadshow, but I have friends who did.
Seems like a good way to invite trouble...

LOL

 

[CluckySam]

Hi everyone,

just watched our international news and saw the massive snowstorms that you are all experiencing (well, on the east coast anyway??). Hope you are all bunkered down and staying warm. If it makes you feel any better, we had a huge summer thunderstorm that broke a couple of weeks of hot, humid weather. Flooded roads, flooded buildings... we are very, very wet!

Anyway just wanted to say KEEP WARM and my flock and I are thinking of you!

Sam

 

[Fuffy]

Thanks!
Hope that applies to the UK and outer Isles as well

 

[MrsChickendad]

Bad Bad Leroy Brown . . .

February 12th came, and the sleeping chickies awakened right on time. There were 42 eggs set, but only 11 hatched. This was due to the fact that some of the eggs were collected before the butt waxing night and some were shipped eggs. Some just slipped away. In any case, the Food People were tickled with the New Babies.

The Old Babies, who were fast outgrowing the brooder were still in the house playing tag and bump, flutter and jump. It was like nursery school run amuck. The Food Man is nearly finished building their new tractor, so they will move soon. The sooner the better.

When the New Babies woke up, the Food People had a big surprise. The 3 BLR Wyandotte Babies had fuzzy feet! Hmmmm. Big Chickies, but fuzzy feet? There are other Baby Chickies, too: Silver Ameraucanas (no fuzzy feet here, but fuzzy cheeks!), Mille Fleur Cochins and some other bantam cochins.

Then they remembered that Wendy and the Wyandottes had moved into the Honeymoon Hotel with Walter a week later than the others, and Wendy and the girls had been keeping company with Leroy, their hatchmate. Apparently the relationship is closer than they thought, and Leroy is more talented than they thought. They are not going to tell Barbara of Leroy’s bad behavior, no point in getting her any more worked up.

That is going to be one weird combination: dark blue laced red wyandottes crossed with lemon blue bantam cochin. Be afraid. Bad Bad Leroy. . .

These are two of the Old Babies-they are at that awkward stage.

 

[Fuffy]

Oooo Noooo You mustn't tell Barbara!!!! If she had any sense she would make him pack his bags!

Bad Leroy!

 

[MrsChickendad]

I do believe Barbara could be a very wicked stepmother!