Rural Gardening: A lurker who wants a chicken, or two, 1 by frans530

frans530 wrote:
I think of all the chicken breeds I ordered.. (15) so I could figure out which one I liked the most and wanted to live "forever" with..
I beleive it would have to be the Americaunas. They are overall the most interesting and the most interested in what you are doing.
Their poofy cheeks make them the cutiest things.. kind of like when sylvester eats tweety and trys to talk and a feather comes out his mouth.. well these guys look like they ate the cat and when they look up at you and tilt their little heads.. it looks like they are going to smile and a furball might escape,, or at least a whisker is going to pop out.
If I go out to feed very early.. the Americaunas are the ones to come up behind me and jump and pull on my night shirt.. I always laugh.. so does dh.. he says it looks like a bunch of kindergardners wanting their cookies & milk yankin on my skirt hem.
I have a bunch of breeds that are nice.. a few that are cute, some that entertain me.. but all around the Americaunas have it all... now egg production... haven't got a clue yet.. lol.. they are only.. umm 14 weeks now...?
Oh yea, all the bird I got had to be cold hardy.. so all had single or rose combs, no frostbite, they also had to be able to handle the hot weather.

OH.. something I learned today... even a chicken with a brain this big ( O ) NOPE, he does not know to come in from the rain! I rain the sprinkler to make a nice mudd area... dahhh the just stood there.. a few looked up.. mouth open... OMG// one even finally realized.. IT'S RAINING.. and ran home.. lol byw,, it hasn't rained all this week.. I was just looking for a few worms and trying to give them a cool spot.

Ali & Sandy both Americaunas,14 weeks