I picked up this beautiful little cock off of Pete Kortis at the Woodstock BST. Silkie Sue and the PTO Chicken Wagon picked him up and brought him back for me, THANKS SUE!
He is by far the most easy going bird on the farm! I sure can tell that Pete took excellent care of him! he let all the kids pose for pictures when I brought him home. he will sit on my hand or lap and let me check him out or pet him, I've never had a chicken like that before! the kids named him Teapot about 5 mins after I got him home, not because he looks like a teapot but because he was sounding like a teapot thats boiling. LOL. I'm ok with that.
Allen caught me a few days ago prepping up the pen for him in anticipation of his arrival, wondering what I was doing with "his cage," he used to have the silkies in it. well I told him about the new bird, and my plans to breed them and he got really excited. I offered these birds to him and he got even more excited. so the Bantam Reds are his now.
Bantam RIR were my first chickens, along with a couple bantam BR hens that I hatched. I still have a couple of those 4 year old hens but I lost my rooster early this spring. I'm very happy to get such a nice looking and easy going cock to keep on breeding these little beauties. Next spring, with the help of Allen we are going to start breeding them to the standard and expand the flock quite a bit!
Thanks Pete!!!
Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
