Reginald Roger DuCockis - the Buff Orpington rooster
Notice the characteristic beard and earmuffs on this Ameruacana hen...
A handsome fella...
Until the garden is planted, we're letting the chickens enjoy roaming. They return to the hen house at night.
Two Gold Laced Wyandottes
The two Wyandottes seem to range the farthest...
The cattle are enjoying the new green grass...
The white Ameruacana ponders . . .
Why does a chicken cross the road?
14 comments:
i remember when i was small...during visits to my dad's native... i used to go around chasing hens for fun...
love those memories :) thank you for bringing them back to me..
Vicki -- Great photos of your country life. Beautiful chickens -- barbara
It always does my heart good, to see chickens roaming free and scratching about. These are handsome birds, indeed.
we would so much to keep some hens but we are not shure whether we would manage to put them to bed EVERY evening... there are many greedy minks and foxes in this area. so we would probably constantly feed those predators... or everything had to be built of concrete which wouldn't fit to our timber house and county garden.
I love your chickens.. the rooster is gorgeous. When I became a widow I found myself with a vege garden and two chooks to deal with. It was a fulltime rask erecting make-do fences to keep the hens out of the garden. Geart memories.
What a pompous name Reginald has! My goodness! How do the others feel about it? Thank you for finally answering the age old question of why chickens cross roads! It makes so much sense...I wonder why no one else managed to think of it?
These are delightful pictures...how fortunate you are to be living such a lovely, pastoral life :)
Hey Vicki........free range is a chickens idea of heaven! We just doubled our pen this week. We have 15 hens and we get an average of 13 eggs a day! I'm about to start selling eggs! HA!
I grew up with chickens. Alwasy loved (the hens) clucking and pecking about. HATED cleaning the chicken coop - might be the nastiest job EVER. The rooster always chased me when I was little... funny how they know who to pick on. Lovely photos!
smiles. fun to watch the frollicks of the yard....lovely markings on them....
Lucky chickens!
You are so much greener than we are right now. I'm envious!
Stunning shots, Vicki. I feel a terrible case of chicken envy coming on.
Reginald is one handsome dude!!! And the girls are gorgeous. Today was gray until I opened your blog.
Thank you,
Kath
My goodness, who knew a rooster could be so handsome? Reginald is one dignified looking fellow, with a dignified name to match! Pretty hens too.
Who knew backyard chickens could be so gorgeous?! And thank you for finally answering that age old question!!
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