Sunday, October 11, 2009

Churkens

These long-necked lanky creatures are a cross breed of chickens and turkeys. They will lay awesome eggs and most likely will require a bigger pen when they grow up. For now they are third generation Gods... Hendini being "The Great One", young ducks being second, churkins (3rd), baby chicks (4th), and one other breed mixed in that almost looks like turtle doves... (that would be the last in the pecking order but it doesn't look like anyone is pecking out of domination so far.)

So now you've met the poultry class.

Egore was somewhere in the mix while being stuck in the cage in the shop. He was hunched over like the Hunchback of Notre Dame so I called him Egore. But when I let all the chicks into the Great Chicken Coop he has mingled in with the flock and either blended in or disappeared. Amber said, "Well, maybe he just stood up." Perhaps he was just claustrophobic and uncomfortable in a small cage and now feels free enough to stand up tall (like the big ducks) and stretched his wings, so to speak.

That's what I like to think anyway...

1 comment:

  1. Very like humans with their 'pecking' orders...I'd never heard of churkins before, but do know that turkeys can grow to some size! Do they make more of a gobbling sound or a squawking sound, or a cross between the two, I wonder?
    ...You've got quite a handful to look after over there, but you seem to care about them....I'd find it difficult to erm,,hand them over for serving at dinner tables if I'd looked after them, ( this is me having been brought up in the country near farms, too! ).... but I do eat chicken and turkey, and they seem to get plenty of space to roam freely around at your place, as well as being well cared for.....and Hendini, of course keeps them all in their place. :D

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