You can never have enough...

[JanW]

My old boy had a thing about chooks going way back - he was 15 years younger than his siblings and they lived very rurally so his Mum tells me his bantam hens occupied a lot of his time .He brought a pukeko egg back from the river and stuck it under one of his broody bantams .It hatched and of course its size became a problem it would stand up and topple his little hen over .The pukeko lived seven years but was stung by a wasp
When we had the orchard he decided to answer an SOS and get some rescue chooks to free range - they were in a terrible condition hardly any feathers - but he spent hours with them and they soon blossomed would follow him everywhere - people coming into the orchard used to laugh two Rottweiler one staffi and twenty chooks following him around - but they decided they needed to come inside the house so unfortunately they had to be rehomed .He would come inside and shut the door and they would be put on the back step clucking around and making a hell of a mess so it was either them or me !