So, I'm sure someone is wondering why I chose the title that I did. Frizzle has kinda been an alias of mine for a few years now, and I freakin LOVE chickens. They are probably my favorite animals. At home, I have quite a few chickens, though 6 of which are roosters that are going to be butchered maybe this week. Here is a list of my chickens. Name, sex, breed, age, egg color. Picture if I have one.
Butterball, female, Buff Orphinton, 3 yrs, brown/pink
Baldina, female, Black Australorp, 3 yrs, brown/pink
Speckles, female, Buff Orphinton X Silver Laced Wyandotte, 2 1/2 yrs, pink
Moonshine, male, Easter Egger X (Speckles), 1/2 yr
- Puff, male, Easter Egger X Ancona, 2 1/2 yrs
- Ash, female, Easter Egger X Black Star, 2 1/2 yrs, green
- Selena, female, Ancona X Silver Laced Wyandotte, 2 1/2 yrs, white
- Cassidy, female, (Puff) X Black Minorca, 1/2 yr, white/crème
Baldina and Speckles are extremely special to me because they are such good brooders. Baldina is probably the best, this summer while I was away at camp, she got a hold of 13ish eggs, each layed on a different day. This meant that when it came to hatching the eggs, it was staggered, and took an additional 10+ days since the first chick hatched out. Often, hens will give up if the hatching process takes too long. Speckles and Baldina hatched out a total of 15 chicks this summer, though only 6 made it through the summer because of my dog, and there was one fatality due to a Kestrel. Yeah, that sucked. What sucked worse was that of the 6 that survived, only ONE was a female. fml. Moonshine was a very pretty rooster that hatched out, so all is not lost. The other four are on the list for the chopping block.
When I have a house of my own someday, I fully intend to raise chickens as well. My long-term goals with my chickens (besides just enjoying them) is that I want a fairly uniform duel purpose flock that is well suited for the cold (fluffy, with small combs) as well as being colors that blend fairly well with the landscape. I would like some Frizzled chickens because I like that feather type, and maybe some rare and unusual breeds that I could show. But for that, I will have to wait until I am older.