Cockadoodle-two

So, not only is one of the guaranteed point of lay pullets (i.e. girls) bantams a boy, two of them are! 😆

I have always thought that two looked very different to the other two, like two pairs and turns out that’s precisely what they are; a pair of boys and a pair of girls!

The two cockerels have begun to crow and fight with each other, as indeed they would. They are also, judging by the bald patches on the hens doing other cockerel type activities.

Fortunately we can either take them to Bruce’s farm where Wobble, Freddie and Punzel now live or we can take them to Tom’s who is the bloke who bought them from the auction for us. We are very tempted to keep one actually – their crowing is nothing like as loud as the chickens was and is literally a five minute thing when they are first let out of the coop in the morning. The current plan is to get rid of one of them and then try and get another hen or two with the possibility of letting them breed a few chicks so Davies and Scarlett get to see babies with their mummy rather than incubator births. Once the weather improves a bit we’ll sort out their run properly too and spend some time out there with them taming them up a bit. We’d also quite like some ducks but I think the idea of hatching those is nice – little ducklings in the house for a while is a very tempting thought (and if we get boy ducks then yes, we might well do the crispy pancakes thing :lol:).