Kaden thinks they are wonderful..
you can touch them very gently...
Not sure if we will keep these two even though I do have a couple hens wanting to set on some eggs. I was hoping to get some guinea eggs for them though. Don't you just love being able to live in the country so the little ones can watch the baby animals and chicks?
My white peacock was out showing off today. And he's getting braver about doing his struttin dance with me watching. 
I just love my new Polish Crested Chickens compliments of my sister. Aren't they beautiful? I ended up taking 3 roosters from my "little flock" to the sale barn cause I had way too many roosters fighting in the hen house. Didn't get much for them but didn't have the heart to kill and eat them either. They were beautiful roosters!
The run part of the pen was covered with hay bale wrap which I am hoping will last at least for a few years. Don't you know the hawk is wondering what that stuff was? Now the "little flock" can wander their pen in safety even though they don't know they are safe.
Here's the "little flock" as they hear me pull up on the 4 wheeler. They are learning how to get along in the chicken yard. It's a good lesson to learn. Too bad people don't learn that lesson also!
And they love the wheat that we throw out to them too!
Unfortunately, for some reasons we're only getting 1 egg a day out of 20 chickens. Something's not right here.
The peacocks love the big pen giving them much more freedom to wander. Here's my favorite one checking out what I am doing in their pen. 
This chicken is quite the escape artist. It can get out of the smallest hole!
My favorite Seabright rooster hopped right up on the roost and crowed his heart out!!
Isn't John Wayne looking fat and sassy here? 
The two peacocks are checking out this new place. And they are not sure if they want to go into this building. So far we are going out after dark and putting them in the building. Hopefully they will start going in on their own although they have spent the last several months roosting outside. We'll see.
Here's my favorite chicken. Polish Crested.
More pictures of my "little flock" happily spending time in the yard!
Love these Seabright"s. Beautiful chickens!
Doesn't this make you laugh? Having a bad hair day. Love my "little flock!" And now they are safe from THE HAWK!
"Do you ever get the feeling something is watching us boys?"
I had my motion light click on and then the head of a coon peeked into my patio door. So my guess was he was following the chicks to see if he could get a chicken dinner. Obviously the light didn't bother him==just made it easier to see what he was looking for. I think it is a coon getting my chicks cause something pulled the staples out of the wire and drug off my last banty rooster. Shoulda had a slat over the wire and staples is my guess. 
Doesn't this little momma look happy? Notice the little one on her back. The one in front is the only one left from her earlier flock that survived the "predator". He's quite a bit bigger than the others but he gets under her wings right along with all 15 of the rest.
Farewell my lovely hens! Didn't even get a chance to give you a name. And each of these hens cost me $15.00 each so something had a $30.00 chicken dinner last night.
Wasn't she beautiful? I'm gonna have a camera and a trap tonight. And I'm not gonna be turning whatever it is loose either! DEAD, DEAD, DEAD will be its fate! No mercy!!
What you looking at chump? Don't worry about her --She's paranoid cause she don't have a name yet!
There's an awful lot of crowing and strutting going on...
the pecking order is being established. This little guy needs a movie star name too. Maybe Jackie Chan... something feisty....
This pretty little lady is a mille fleur banty...
And here's her "significant other" or whatever they call it in the chicken yard.... They both need a good movie star name also... Something flashy.... Maybe Elton John for him....
I love his tail feathers!
He thinks I am invading his private space...
Mark named this one Popeye and his main squeeze is Oliveoyle but he's so mean he should have been named Brutus.
cause he's such a bully in the barnyard....
He's been known to try to flog the other roosters through the chicken wire..
And here's his main squeeze Oliveoyle...
Sittin in the shade...
This is Rhett Butler and he's my Silkie rooster. His little woman is Scarlett O'Hare and she's the momma taking care of the little bunch of chicks I now have. ... she's a good woman!
And here's John Wayne the first rooster in the barnyard. But he's feeling a little threatened right now cause there are so many roosters invading his territory and unfortunately he is the one having to back down when the fights are on.....Popeye is too mean for him so he runs! He does not do his name justice and I am ashamed that something called John Wayne is such a sissy!
Go somewhere and hang your head in shame John Wayne!
Can't a girl go lay an egg with a little privacy? Geez....
And of course we can't forget my sister's chickens. These are the "floggin champs". But in a couple weeks we're packing them up and shipping them back to my sister who swore to me they would eat out of your hand cause they are so docile and sweet. Humph....
You see that defiance in his eye? Makes me want to "knock him in the middle of next week" as they use to say when I was a kid. Excuse me while I go down to the hen house and knock him around a bit just to show him this "Hicksie Chick" still reigns supreme on this homestead....
I'm resting here if you don't mind!
Ducks in love?
Who's looking at ya?
Down at the watering hole.
Need some good movie star names for my ducks also. Any ideas?
