My chickens - for Bonnie
Bonnie, ('Bama Chicken Scratch) being another chicken lover, wanted to know what chickens I have. Well, I don't need much of an excuse to talk about my chickens. In fact I've bored many a person to tears singing the praises of my chickens. So, when anyone displays even the slightest interest in my chickens, I'm off and running.
Bonnie, right now I've got one huge Rhode Island Red rooster called Cecil Rhodes who is so fierce that nearly everyone is terrified of him and so they should be because he has been known to attack anyone he does not recognize. His harem consists of white leghorn hens who are very skittish and a bit neurotic but each of them lays an egg everyday. Cecil protects them like a jealous sultan. Those are my working chickens.
I also have eleven pet bantams - which is my way of reliving my childhood when I had my own little flock of bantams on our farm. The sultan of this harem is Bertie Wooster, a feisty little game-cock. Of course I have to keep the two roosters in separate coops because Bertie does not seem to realize that he is only 6 inches tall and that Cecil is over two feet tall. He once even flew through a gap above the gate between the two coops and attacked Cecil. If Bertie were the same size as Cecil, Cecil would be dead by now.
Bertie's harem consists of eight game-hens, a bantam guinea-hen called Tannie Tarentaal (which is Afrikaans for Auntie Guinea-fowl) and a cochin bantam hen called Turandot after the Chinese ice-princess. Turandot is the broodiest hen I've ever known. She even hatched a batch of quail. If you want to hatch eggs you give them to Turandot. The bantam game-hens are also good layers and I just use two of their eggs instead of one of the regular size eggs. And yes, they all have names too - Honey, Goldie, Misty, Smoky, Fifi, Gigi and Mimi and Aeeda (she's black so I named her after the African princess, Aida, but she is also known as I-eat-a-lot-slugs.)
In spring, I'm going to get a few more hens for Cecil, two geese and a half dozen muscovy ducks.
I just had two fried egg sandwiches for lunch. I don't know how I used to eat store-bought eggs when I lived in the city.
I love my chickens but I don't give names to any which I intend to eat.
Bonnie, right now I've got one huge Rhode Island Red rooster called Cecil Rhodes who is so fierce that nearly everyone is terrified of him and so they should be because he has been known to attack anyone he does not recognize. His harem consists of white leghorn hens who are very skittish and a bit neurotic but each of them lays an egg everyday. Cecil protects them like a jealous sultan. Those are my working chickens.
I also have eleven pet bantams - which is my way of reliving my childhood when I had my own little flock of bantams on our farm. The sultan of this harem is Bertie Wooster, a feisty little game-cock. Of course I have to keep the two roosters in separate coops because Bertie does not seem to realize that he is only 6 inches tall and that Cecil is over two feet tall. He once even flew through a gap above the gate between the two coops and attacked Cecil. If Bertie were the same size as Cecil, Cecil would be dead by now.
Bertie's harem consists of eight game-hens, a bantam guinea-hen called Tannie Tarentaal (which is Afrikaans for Auntie Guinea-fowl) and a cochin bantam hen called Turandot after the Chinese ice-princess. Turandot is the broodiest hen I've ever known. She even hatched a batch of quail. If you want to hatch eggs you give them to Turandot. The bantam game-hens are also good layers and I just use two of their eggs instead of one of the regular size eggs. And yes, they all have names too - Honey, Goldie, Misty, Smoky, Fifi, Gigi and Mimi and Aeeda (she's black so I named her after the African princess, Aida, but she is also known as I-eat-a-lot-slugs.)
In spring, I'm going to get a few more hens for Cecil, two geese and a half dozen muscovy ducks.
I just had two fried egg sandwiches for lunch. I don't know how I used to eat store-bought eggs when I lived in the city.
I love my chickens but I don't give names to any which I intend to eat.
posted by Joubert at 1:12 PM
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