Rural Gardening: mY cHICKENS, 0 by BLOSSOMBUDDY

BLOSSOMBUDDY wrote:
Yes, Robin did have a lot of blue. When he was a peep I actually named him after a friend of mine who got me started with the chickens.. He was all blue as a baby.. then he started to look like a robin and well, Mr. Red Breast with the blue fanny he came to be!

Now here is Pretty Boy. Thinking back, he came in a box of aracuana chicks. There were five. I had a very tough time picking the prettiest roo of that batch. Two of the roos in that box were sporting the 14kt gold feathers and one was blue and the other was Pretty Boy. I thought the this roo was the better one to cross on my girls to get more color. He was also more on the plumpy side. He has a green sheen! I wished now I kept my Black Australorp girls, they would have been neat with him.

Well no eggs yet today, but it is early and 57 out!!