What the Chook!

…what I know now, I may never have decided that keeping chickens would be a good idea. Luckily, I was blissfully unaware and a couple of years later, here I am in the process of putting together this weblog on chicken keeping, its joys, its pitfalls and all the bits inbetween.

I arrived at the decision to keep chickens thanks to my neighbour. She had a small flock of Marans who laid lovely dark brown eggs and then we acquired a small flock of Pekin bantams with feathered feet who would all often wander into the kitchen and round our garden/orchard out back. When these were sadly lost to a rogue fox over the course of a summer a few years ago, I decided having been so smitten with the little Pekin bantams and their big personalities that once the fox problem was solved I’d find more and lo, here I am a few years later…

I spent time researching, as having only basic knowledge about chicken keeping and liking to care for all my animals as best I can I wanted to be well read and informed. Once I was content in the knowledge I would be able to care and provide long term for these feathered creatures, I went about finding a good local breeder with decent stock. A few weeks later I came home with a trio of black Pekin bantams, whom I named Denzel, Delilah and Dixie chick (as she was back then, only 18 weeks old).

Delilah, Dixie (in the pot) and Denzel

Filed under: Pekin Bantams on August 3rd, 2007