Backyard Poultry
Birchie in the Yard |
Here is Birchie in the nest box (before it stopped laying for the winter). It had beautiful feathers and was always a little smaller than the other hens. When I let the hens free-range, I liked to pick it up and give it a boost into the air so it could flutter down like a bird. Birchie would tag along after the other two Araucanas, peeking out from behind its feather tufts. Recently, though, it was staying alone in the house much of the time, like the other hens were harassing it. Birchie was a joy to raise for the nine months we had it. I think I’d rather have enjoyed it and then lost it, than never have raised it at all.
5 comments:
A beautiful bird--sorry about your loss
What a pretty bird! That must have been quite a hard loss, but I guess that can happen when raising animals.
Did the hawk go after it because of its white color?
Ahh, its so cute. Did it lay very many blue eggs?
I think Birchie did stand out in the flock because of its white color, and also being smaller than the others. It did lay a blue egg every day in the summer, til it stopped this fall.
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