- Apr 9, 2011
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If CR really feels like swiping a chicken, here's the one which is surplus to my needs:
This is, to my eye (which is usually considered to be good on these sorts of things: ten years of every possible kind of 4H judging competition does that to a person) the best of the three cockerels I was holding when it comes to leg, hackle and saddle color and comb form. They all three sort of typify the crankier members of the Wyandotte Board's complaints about BLRWs needing work on Wyandotte body style, one way or another, and since he's full brother to two out of three of my hens and Ian, although also a splash, has darker blue lacing and body feathers, this is the one who needs to go away. Preferably soon: I've got cockerels crowing on three sides of the house and road noise on the fourth (leave us not mention the still-unoiled squeaky swing and screaming children).
Anyhow, presented for your approval: the formal portrait of the alpha roo from that pen of four.

This is, to my eye (which is usually considered to be good on these sorts of things: ten years of every possible kind of 4H judging competition does that to a person) the best of the three cockerels I was holding when it comes to leg, hackle and saddle color and comb form. They all three sort of typify the crankier members of the Wyandotte Board's complaints about BLRWs needing work on Wyandotte body style, one way or another, and since he's full brother to two out of three of my hens and Ian, although also a splash, has darker blue lacing and body feathers, this is the one who needs to go away. Preferably soon: I've got cockerels crowing on three sides of the house and road noise on the fourth (leave us not mention the still-unoiled squeaky swing and screaming children).
Anyhow, presented for your approval: the formal portrait of the alpha roo from that pen of four.