Chortle Chook Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 One or two of you on here may know that at the end of last week I was offered a cuckoo frizzle but my OH was adamant that one in = one out. I was in a total quandry about what to do as I have for ages longed for a cuckoo coloured chook and did have a couple of young silkies that I could part with. However I needed a nice home for them and I wasn't about to send one off on her own. In the end a nice home came up yesterday where they will have lots of free-ranging and will be able to become Mummy hens. I can also visit them whenever I want. So yesterday, off my silkie pair went and in came Dumpy. Here she is. I think she is just grand but my sister is still saying I'm a horrid, fickle, chicken Mummy. Have others on here done something similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Tea Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 She's gorgeous Last week I swapped my hybrid, Pepper, for two Pekin Bantams as I had lost my other hybrid and decided I didn't want to keep large fowl anymore. Luckily, like you, I found a nice home for her with somebody who was looking to rehome her Pekins as they kept going broody and she just wanted the eggs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy ben grace Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 She is lovely, i am very I would love a frizzle pekin! I rehomed my 2 silkies to some friends a few doors down to make room for more pekins! They have a great life and i get to see them when i walk the dogs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 Thanks, Green tea. I'm so glad I'm not the only one to swap / re-home chooks. My sister is making me feel terrible but my reasoning was that, unlike dogs, chickens don't bond with their owner and that it is the food they are keen on e.g. mealworms so if I could get them somehwere where they would have FR time and clean accomodation they would hardly notice the difference. My sister is still saying 'How could you?' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 She is lovely, i am very I would love a frizzle pekin! I rehomed my 2 silkies to some friends a few doors down to make room for more pekins! They have a great life and i get to see them when i walk the dogs! Thank you poppy I have been told, but could be wrong, that Dumpy is not a Frizzle x Pekin but a Frizzle frizzle. She has yellow featherless legs to prove it and is rather bigger than a Pekin though still considerably smaller than a standard sized hen. Here she is 'showing a leg' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 She is absolutely gorgeous. Definitely worth a swap. And you're one in credit when you next see something you fancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 I admit, that did occur to me later, as I am rather keen on finding a Chamois Poland x Frizzle I do hope that when I called my OH's bluff when he said it had to be one in = one out he didn't start thinking of trading me in . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweety Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Dumpy is gorgeous - and definitely not a Frizzle x Pekin. She looks very much like my pure breed Frizzles with the yellow legs, and you have got a real beauty there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted July 27, 2011 Author Share Posted July 27, 2011 Oh thank you! My foolish heart swells with pride Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 I didn't think that cuckoo was a colour in frizzle frizzles, they tend to be flat colours I may be wrong though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CluckyBucks Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 Oh my gosh... your frizzle... looks like mumble from happy feet Shes very adorable xx xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mollyripkim Posted July 27, 2011 Share Posted July 27, 2011 She is really cute and such a lovely colour, love the name too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted July 28, 2011 Share Posted July 28, 2011 She looks like a pure bred Frizzle (not a frizzle feathered something) She is lovely Dont forget that a period of quarantine is advisable, I'd also try and find a pal for her rather than have her integrate on her own if you can I have changed my mind over breeds in the past, I dont think its a problem as long as good homes are found although changes of home in a short space of time is never a good idea however on other forums there are people who do this constantly, moving from bantams to LF then back again, buying nicely bred birds cheap from breeders who think they are serious about breeding only to change their minds and sell them on etc... thats when it becomes a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
