Comments on: Chicken Breeds

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:38:15 +0000

We just started our flock this past spring we have 17 when they were chicks there was always one that stuck out from the rest and we named her Fancy. She is a Araucana, we also have New Hampshire Reds and Black sexlinks. So most of our chicks are red or black and our other Araucanas are brown and black, but Fancy is all sorts of shades of grey! She still stands out amoung the rest and is still fancy! She is a shy bird but we have had so much fun with them all!!! We also adopted a baby bunny and he lives in with the chickens too he is the king of the coop we are not sure if he knows hes a bunny!!! Love your websit Happy Holidays

By: Terry Golson

Terry Golson — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:54:21 +0000

I also had a hen named Queen Victoria – she was a black Silkie and not only had the appropriate dress, but also the attitude. Sweet with people, but above dealing with the rowdy masses in the coop.

By: Magic Cochin

Magic Cochin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:22:50 +0000

So many lovely chicken tales…!

One of my first hens was a Black Cochin, we called her (Queen) Victoria – she had such a fine frock with a bustle of shimmering black! It was New Year and Victoria had still to lay her first egg – we’d got her in October ‘point of lay’. I had to take my Mum to hospital to find out the result of some tests (I new in my heart the news wasn’t going to be good). Before we set off I walked round my garden holding Victoria in my arms – I said ‘please lay an egg today for my Mum – it will cheer her up so much’.

The news was very bad – Mum had cancer and she had a major operation to face and months of treatment ahead. We arrived back to my house in silence and I said ‘Mum, lets see if Victoria has laid an egg for you’ – and she had! It was the best thing ever! – we smiled and gave Victoria treats and couldn’t wait to tell my husband when he came home from work.

Victoria was the original ‘Magic Cochin’, much love and missed. My Mum has recovered well and still loves watching my hens, no longer Cochins but a mix of Marans and some gorgeous Aracauna x Crested Cream Legbar hybrids. They are all different and I love them all!

Celia

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:48:31 +0000

Bonnie you were lucky. When I use to order chicks each year I always called my order in and requested they not include the free chick. I like Terry always got a rooster.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:53:23 +0000

I love my Plymouth Rock bantams, they are very gentle and lay regularly, but my favourite is my little Old English Game bantam. She looks like a tiny toy hen on stilts and has such a personality – she is so nosy and likes to be the centre of attention!

By: Terry Golson

Terry Golson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:33:55 +0000

Lucky you to get Ginger. in my orders that free chick has always been a rooster!

By: Bonnie Jo

Bonnie Jo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:41:47 +0000

Ginger was my special hen. She was the “free rare breed” that was tossed in the box of chicks from Murray McMuray, and she turned out to be a Mille Fleur D’Uccle (a bantam). Such a sweet breed…all the children loved her because she was so gentle. We lost her to a virus that took most of our flock, but we have acquired a couple of D’Uccle hens since then and they are just the sweetest!

By: Terry Golson

Terry Golson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:55:52 +0000

What a great story!

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:43:51 +0000

I came home from work one day and as usual changed my clothes and headed for the chicken coop. I immediately noticed a red hen that was “not mine”. I stood there an looked at her and wondered how in the world or who in the world put this chicken in my coop. I live in a suburb of St Louis so chickens are not that common, yet!
Within minutes I heard, “Sir” I turned and looked and their stood my municipalities animal conrol officer. She told me “I found your hen dodging traffic at the intersection of Fee Fee and the Rock Road”(VERY BUSY INTERSECTION). I resonded “that’s not my chicken”. She had the most surprised look on her face. Honestly, at first I was not happy about who knows what diseases this hen could have been carrying but fortunately nothing horrible came of the introduction. To this day I/we have no idea where this hen came from.
So to the point, this hen could not have been more friendly or tame. When I collected eggs she would always fly up to the perch in front of the nest boxes and purr and loved to be petted. She was a red sex link or at least that is what she appeared to be.

By: Terry Golson

Terry Golson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:26:13 +0000

Tracy and Hylla,
what sweet stories!
Jeanette- it’s so funny hearing about hens who “appear” in one’s life. Stray dogs are commonplace. But chickens? :)