DIARY OF A GRANDFATHER

 Chooks

 

 

Alison, Janice,  Angela 1and 2, Katy, Refugee Al (/James/Leo) and Refugee Peta live down the back of my place.

Angela original was killed by a dog when she flew over the fence she had only been here a little while.... I eventually replac
ed her with Angela one and two because it was too cruel to separate them and introduce only one to the flock. The Angela's' are energetic Chooks and love eating and scratching great layers also. I would not really recommend naming chooks after your kids, but it is two late now! They are Isa Browns...

Refugee (AL)James/Leo-refugee Al for short) came when my daughter Alison and family moved house. She has made friends with refugee Peta and they are the outsiders in the flock. I think she is a Hampshire Red?

Refugee Peta comes from my brothers Peter's (Peter and Kathy)place as they are renovating she is the real outsider her only friend is Peta and me. She gets a cruel pecking from the Australorps and the Isa Browns. But is making her way and it's not as bad lately. I'm not sure what she is?

Alison and Janice are Autralorps an Australian breed descended from dutch Bernvelder chickens big black shiny and beautiful--they know that and are one and two in the pecking order and are very out there bossy and in your face.

Katy is a Dorking Chicken or (Dorka for short) she is quiet, gets on with everybody and is a great layer. She is beautiful but unpretentious. I like her a lot while all around is chaos she is calm and serene...

There are a lot of great websites on the net so you can find out all about chooks there I will not bore you with that stuff.

But a couple of facts sixty five million years ago when the asteroid hit and wiped out the dinosaurs the chickens ancestors survived as did a rat like mammal our ancestor so chickens are an old species who evolved into the animals we know today in the jungles of South East Asia and then all the selective modern breeding. They have shared the same journey as us and are scavengers like we are, maybe that is why we get along.

When God created chickens (and worms but that for a later blog) he was having a good day must have been early in creation week...

Cheers take care.

John Condliffe

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