A new bantam chick!
July '07 Filed in: Farm
A lot of excitement on the farm today. We discovered a new bantam chick hanging out in Gulliver's pen. (Gulliver is my father-in-law's American milking devon bull.) This chick is particularly exciting because the bantam cock lost a fight with one of our cats. Seemed Wizard got tired of sharing her cat food with the bantam, so she taught him a permanent barnyard lesson. We have two hens and they usually brood on a clutch of 14-21 eggs so there is a chance we might see another chick or two tomorrow.
By the way, a bantam is basically a miniature chicken. We keep them in the barn to help keep down the fly population and to add a little color to the barnyard.
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