Rick & Wendy Rogers
20241 Brockman Mill Road
Fiddletown, CA 95629
209-296-2345
20241 Brockman Mill Road
Fiddletown, CA 95629
209-296-2345
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| FiddleSong Farm |
| Hens that CROW! |
| Did you know that hens can crow??? The year that we brought home Lucy, we also got a small flock of chicks from the feed store. We had a few goats already. "Now," I said "we are a REAL farm!" There were twelve Plymouth Barred Rock chicks. They grew like little weeds, but there was one little chick that looked different from the rest. It was mean, too, always pecking at the other chicks. I didn't like that too much, but it was only a tiny chick at the time. I started calling it "Barbecue,"and it soon became apparent that Barbecue was a rooster. In fact, out of all twelve chicks, he was the ONLY rooster! Wow was I lucky! Except Barbecue was MEAN! He flapped at me every time I went near HIS hens. He was BIG, too! And soon he grew long spurs, so I was really SCARED of him! One day Barbecue went to live in the big coop in the sky, and that is where this story finally gets to the point: I had walked out to the barn early one morning about two weeks after Barbecue "left". Several hens were busy out in the forest scratching around in the dirt like hens do. I was in the barn scooping grain for the goats' breakfast when I heard this strange "GRROWP!" "WHAT was that?" I asked myself. I looked around and didn't see anything weird. The hens acted like everything was fine, so I went back to my chore thinking that I was hearing things. "GGGRRROWWWP!" I heard it again!!! It was a weird kind of noise, sounding rather like a wounded goat, but it sounded like it was coming from the area that the hens were...so I peeked my face around the very corner of the barn...careful not to make a noise... and there I saw... A HEN standing on a log, FLAPPING HER WINGS and "GGGRROWP"!!!! |
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| These are Plymouth Barred Rock hens. They find all the bugs in the garden, and fertilize, too! |
