Meet the Windsors

[puddleglumWI]

I got six Cream Legbar pullets that are a week old on Sunday from a breeder about an hour from me. Since Legbars are an english breed, I am calling them, collectively, "The Windsors".

They are eating like pigs, drinking like ladies, and shoving each other around like barflies under the heat plate, with an occasional romping chase about the brooder. One case of pasty butt taken care of, and so far no new cases.

I started on the chicken tractor on Sunday evening, and figured out the saw I have won't really do the angled cuts I need it to. So I made a new plan for cutting the framing, planned to start last night, and then got caught up in other errands. It is gonna get cold and rain right when I get off work tonight, and is gonna be crummy weather for a few days again. Luckily, I have a cousin with a heated wood shop, who also is a chicken keeper and loves to tell me what I am doing wrong, which is fine, if I get to use his shop. Also luckily, I have a few weeks to complete the tractor.

Since they are "The Windsors" and the tractor is going to be mobile, I am going to call the chicken tractor "The Cluckingham Express"

 

[Penpal]

Love your naming talent.

Why did you drive so far instead of going to Tractor Supply or other store for hatchery birds? The only time I did that was to get breeding stock from a family that produces show birds.

 

[puddleglumWI]

I originally planned to just get some hatchery Barred Rocks, but when I saw this breeder had Cream Legbars, I decided to give them a shot.

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Awesome, my favorite breed! So many great names. I would definitely drive an hour for quality before going to TSC. I'm not a TSC/Hoover's fan. ENJOY!!

 

[Penpal]

You should end up with beautiful birds. It's stunningly obvious which of my birds came from the show breeder and which came from the hatchery (Townline, in Michigan).

 

[puddleglumWI]

I have been putting chunks of sod in the brooder that I am cutting out of the edges of the beds around the house that are getting a little overgrown. The girls are really digging it, quite literally.

 

[puddleglumWI]

The Legbars are starting to grow in their crests, which look like little mohawks at the moment. I guess they are in that awkward and rebellious pre-teen phase.

I worry I may find them in the brooder with beak-rings and listening to The Sex Pistols, and other British punk rock.