Tuesday, 19 April 2011

My Chickens

You may notice that some of them have girl’s names although they’re boys but we named most of them girls in the hope that they would be (more than one rooster spells trouble – louder crowing and fights)

Incomplete - more chickens + pictures to be added

Ruby – rooster – polish (re homed)

Aurora – hen – old English game

Lizzie - rooster – silkie (re homed)
Daisy - rooster – pekin (died recently)

Pocahontas – hen - pekin

Dolly – rooster – pekin (Daisy and Pocahontas’ son – re homed)

Bella – hen – rescued from a battery farm

Golumn – rooster – naked neck

Peggy I – hen – was born with legs forced out to the side, we splint her legs and toes and she survived (frizzle polish)

Peggy II – hen– the same as Peggy I but died 7 months later during a snowy night as she was much smaller than normal for her breed and weaker than the others. (frizzle polish)

Meeko – hen – pekin

Morgana – hen frizzle polish

Pichacu (from pokemon) – peacock (hatched for a friend then returned when it was old enough)

Princess Jasmine  – Indian Runner duck (will soon be rehomed because she and her sister are too messy in comparison to the chickens)

Daphony (from Scooby doo) – Indian Runner duck

Poodles – hen - bantam silkie

Doodles – hen – bantam silkie
Victoria –hen - Buff Orpington

Ruby II – polish - (died as a baby chick)

Daisy II - Orpington

Millie – hen - orpington

Pickles – hen - barnvelder - died at only three years old - we believe that she was egg-bound

Bonnie – hen–

Lilly -hen - dutch bantam

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