Polish Chickens

If you haven’t read the entry entitled Chickens I suggest you do. It will save me from repeating my self. (It’s the next entry down).

Out of all the chickens they had at the auction, there was, one in particular breed that Ed really  likes. Called the Polish Chicken this pair which is especially beautiful are buff laced. The buff is there coloring and the lace is there marking. A trait of polish chickens is they have a crown of feathers on there heads. This gives them an afro look, unlike what everyone things of, when you think of what a chicken should look like. Polish chickens have a slender body with the head dress or crown of feathers.                                                      

There are some Polish breeds that have the crown feathers covering there eyes. Not these two they can see perfectly fine. After we got home Saturday we brought these two in the house while we set up the peeps. This got them out of there box and gave them some exercise for a couple of hours.

To the point where the hen got to perch on the shower curtain rod for a while. After we got the little ones all settled into there new home. We put these two back in there box (which they weren't happy with, that I may add). Then we took them up to the farm where they will be living.

After we got them there we decided to let them have free roam of the garden until the coop is built. So I got them out of there box and they loved the new freedom that they had. Now if you have noticed there are no pictures of them at the farm, there are two reason for this one we forgot the camera. The second is as of last night they have become MIA, the story is that Saturday night the rooster flew the coop but the hen stayed behind. Sunday and Monday the rooster was around just on the out side of the chicken run. Until last night when the hen got out and I got the rooster back in. When I left for the night the rooster was gone and we haven’t seen them since.

We don’t believe that anything bad has happened to them, they just wanted to be free ranging on there own. That's cool and all but we wanted them to stay in the area where we but them. They of course disagreed, so we are hopeful that they will return or at least let us know they are ok.

And if nothing else the first rule of chicken husbandry is to make sure there is a roof on the chicken run and there are no holes in the fence.