We've got 50 Cornish-X, though 20 of them will be going right away to someone else. The black ones are Black Australorps that I ordered at the last minute. (Madman had sent me down to the feedstore with our turkey order. I was unsupervised. Black Australorp chicks were on their order list and were the same price as Rhode Island Reds. I couldn't help it. I'd wanted Australorps since the first picture I saw of them, and there they were, right on the order form. How many times do you get a chance to impulse buy chickens...)
Madman picked up the chicks when they came in, and brought them home. "You're going to love your Australorps," he told me. "They look like little penguins."
And we got half a dozen turkey poults. We've never grown turkeys before, so this should be an interesting experiment. The three in the foreground are turkeys - they look like chicks with lumps on their heads.
I told Madman I wanted to take a black marker out to the chick's coop and draw little bow-ties on the Australorps. "Wouldn't that be cute?" I asked. He just laughed and shook his head. And went to hide the markers.
So cute! I don't blame you at all! Btw, as I recall, turkeys are even dumber than the dumbest sheep could ever hope to be. o.O
ReplyDeleteTurkeys are INCREDIBLY dumb. I have been told they cannot be let out into the rain because they tip their head back to get a drink... and drown. You can keep us clued in on their intelligence.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the little penguin comparison. So cute!
We used to raise Cornish chickens...they got almost as big as turkeys! Your pictures remind me how fun it was. Thanks! :)
ReplyDeleteTrue, you don't have enough to do. Heh. Threes again in the feathered babies, too! I can send you a marker if you need one......
ReplyDeleteI can honestly say that I have *never* had the opportunity to impulse order chickens of any variety... such a sheltered life I lead.
ReplyDeleteMy sister has had turkeys. Which, iirc, were easier than her sheep.
It's spring! What else can you do??
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