Wednesday, September 15, 2010

What Happened?


Earlier this spring I bought 6 pullets (young girl chicks).
2 were given to the grand babies for Easter
and I kept 4.
I thought I had two Cuckoo Maran pullets
and two Americauna pullets.
Two parlicular birds went from this below
(center and right.)


to this...



Fly ~~~~~~~~~~ Taz
~*~
Teenager Fly
Fully grown male

He is a Cuckoo Maran
(the females supposedly lay dark chocolate
brown colored eggs. The Maran pullet has just
started laying and the eggs
aren't really very dark. Maybe she just needs
to mature a bit for them to get really chocolaty!)
Teenager Taz
(Hard to believe this is the little silver colored chick
in the first photo!)
Fully grown.
He is a beautiful Americauna Rooster
(He reminds me so of an Amish man with his
beard under his chin!)


Americauna hens lay green/blue eggs.
(His little mate hasn't started laying yet!)
I have never gotten roosters when I
have paid for pullets before!

While these guys are quite handsome
and crow faithfully and loudly
each and every morning
(and afternoon and evening!)
and are good providers
(they are forever finding bugs, etc. and calling
excitedly for all the girls to come and get it!)
And send out the alarm if anything seems amiss
on the farm...
I really was hoping for a few more layers!

I hope these guys don't get mean
like most of the roosters I have had.
If they do, the next photo you will see of them
will be like this...
;~P
Joining Susan for

4 comments:

Linda said...

Ok...I was really into the roosters and then the last pictures had me laughing too hard...I hope they aren't mean either...

Verde Farm said...

Hi Susan, I just found your blog via Bee Haven and it is wonderful. These chickens are amazingly beautiful. Stunning in fact. I hope they are sweet for you :) LOL Going to check out some of your other posts and other blogs too. So happy to have found you!
Amy at Verde Farm

Sharyn Mallow Woerz said...

The girls and boys are so beautiful. I'm going to allow myself FOUR ONLY little girls next spring, I'm sure the current ones will be wound down by then...but if I had somewhere to sell the eggs I'd have a dozen at least. I LOVE my chickens!
Thanks for sharing. I was just looking at your blog list...I had six at one time :) Now ONLY four, with two private.
all the best Sharyn

Unknown said...

Being a person that doesn't know a thing about chickens it was interesting to read your post. They are beauties. I've seen some of those mean roosters, they really can have an attitude. Good luck. Linda