They are rare breed buff bearded sablepoot bantams. We *think* one of them laid an egg this morning so are hopeful for one tomorrow (the we think isn’t because we were unable to work out whether it was an egg or not but because in the place they stayed over the weekend there was an egg very near to one of them when they were taken out this morning and it was the most likely layer).
After much discussion I am calling one Omelette, Ady is using the name Feathers again, Scarlett has decided to keep to Punzel too and Davies having gone through a variety of names ended up with Timmy. It was going to be Tammy, short for Bantammy but got changed to Timmy at the last minute. 😆
They’re very cute, way smaller than their predecesors, with cute little feathery feet (a poo-trap :roll) and very Gizmo off the Gremlins style cooing noises instead of the rather loud clucks we were used to (not to mention the crowing ;)). They came in the kitchen and were fed, watered and cuddled (and prodded, poked, cooed over and carted around the room!) before being settled into their new home outside for the night.
cool. Well I don’t know how you do it actually, I could never have chickens, but it would be great to have fresh eggs every day! The kids look really happy to have them 🙂
Comment by Sarah — 22 October 2007 @ 7:54 pm
Oh nice! How mucg smaller is a bantam egg than a normal one? Will have to come & see them soon 😉
Comment by layla — 22 October 2007 @ 7:57 pm
you’d use two bantam eggs to one large chicken egg in cooking, so probably not much smaller than a supermarket small egg I guess. Will let you know when they lay.
I did actually miss having them and the kids *really* missed them and were thrilled when we heard we were getting these. I reckon we’ll get about a dozen eggs a week from the 4 of them, which is pretty much our egg consumption, so that’s nice and tidy :).
Comment by Nic — 22 October 2007 @ 8:11 pm
They look great Nic!
but…
… for the love of God make that coop fox proof!!!
Comment by simon — 22 October 2007 @ 9:35 pm
How lovely!
Comment by Allie — 23 October 2007 @ 11:52 am
They look lovely. Our children are really enjoying our hens – we had 6 eggs today!
Comment by Jan — 23 October 2007 @ 10:32 pm