The Poultry Keeper

CP · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

They're cute! Very Happy

Pyxel · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 73 Location: Carlisle, England.

Hi Kitsune, she does let me get near them and I can stand in their little pen doing stuff and she isn't bothered. The two Dutch hens are a different story though, she hates them but they never learn their lesson. I can't believe some of the stuff the chicks get up to for their age, they are definitely going to take after their family for the flying.

Pyxel · Joined: 23 Mar 2007 Posts: 73 Location: Carlisle, England.

Here's some new pictures of the young birds, 12 weeks old on the 7th July. There's 4 out of 5 left now as one disappeared, we think a cat got it. I would say there are two cocks and two hens.

Any ideas on the father of the two brown coloured birds? The orange and white ones are out of either the bird I posted on page one or his brother who looked the same. The only other two cocks where this hen used to live would be a cuckoo maran and another of this hen's sons whose dad was a RIR cross, although you would expect them to be more red if they were his and these birds don't really mix with the marans. Do pheasants and chickens hybridize easily?