As you might recall, my chicken endeavours started with two wonderful red hens. Since my last chicken update, both have become someone else’s dinner. One was carried away in the middle of the night by an unknown predator while the other became a snack for Kleintjie.
Although sad, I find it’s an interesting parallel with what is happening with redheaded people. Not that they are becoming dinner, but that the red hair genes are slowly dying out…
Instead of buying more fancy Windhoek chickens, I opted to buy from someone right here.
Alister has many chickens all ranging in colours - from pitch black, gold, speckled and brown. His chickens are also more streetwise, not like KFC meals, but rather that they know how to survive between all the wild cats and eagles.
So I replaced the redheads with one black - and one black and gold hen. They don’t like hugs like the redheads used to, but they appreciate my koringkriek offerings.
The fat white chicken was a gift from Jan and also comes from a battery chicken operation. She weighs about 4kg’s , lays massive eggs and isn’t as wild as the other two but does take offence when you touch her breast. As most girls would I guess. The koringkrieke don’t really excite her, she’s more of a starch eater.
Although sad, I find it’s an interesting parallel with what is happening with redheaded people. Not that they are becoming dinner, but that the red hair genes are slowly dying out…
Instead of buying more fancy Windhoek chickens, I opted to buy from someone right here.
Alister has many chickens all ranging in colours - from pitch black, gold, speckled and brown. His chickens are also more streetwise, not like KFC meals, but rather that they know how to survive between all the wild cats and eagles.
So I replaced the redheads with one black - and one black and gold hen. They don’t like hugs like the redheads used to, but they appreciate my koringkriek offerings.
The fat white chicken was a gift from Jan and also comes from a battery chicken operation. She weighs about 4kg’s , lays massive eggs and isn’t as wild as the other two but does take offence when you touch her breast. As most girls would I guess. The koringkrieke don’t really excite her, she’s more of a starch eater.
