Miss Tibia’s new nickname around here is the Chicken Whisperer. We picked up two bantam mystery-breed chicks (whom we believe to be Easter Eggers) at The Feed Store in Summit-Argo last weekend and she has been working with them amazingly well. Today, one of them ate its first cricket, which Miss Tibia offered by hand.
Alas, we thought we were buying pullets but the chicks were actually straight run (i.e. unsexed) and so one or both of our little dearies may be cockerels. I suspect one (whom we call Louisa) to be a little roo but time will tell. We have a few months before it becomes an issue. We’ll be picking up two more chicks on Thursday – Barred Plymouth Rock pullets.
Here are Louisa and Henrietta, named for secondary characters in Jane Austen’s Persuasion. Henrietta is the dark chick and Louisa the chipmunk-looking one.
