Tag: wyandotte

Teenage chickens

by admin | Dec 16, 2005 | Birds and Beasts | 5 |

Anyone who’s kept chickens knows there’s a hierarchy in the henhouse. It’s where the term ‘pecking order’ likely originated. These five young Wyandotte pullets are at the bottom of the pecking...

Please let me stay!

by admin | Jun 21, 2005 | Birds and Beasts | 0 |

This gentle rooster hatched last year. He’s the only single-combed chicken on the place. The rest of my full-sized chickens are pure Wyandotte of one color pattern or another, all with pea combs. I suspect the mother hen...