#pyncheon

... a very small Pyncheon rooster.

We named him Quilt, and he was perfect. He went for walks, took care of his hens (most popular rooster on the place!) and kept us all entertained with his opinionated observations.

He ruled the hen yard fairly and with a light touch, and was well behaved on his many sojourns into the house.

(Quilt joining us in a game of Wingspan. In his estimation the eggs were very puny. His girls laid much nicer ones.)

Chaparral

CinderFella, resident rooster (Ameraucana bantam)

Ece, on left, and Fog (Ameraucana hens)

Pickerel, left, and Pumpkinseed (Yokohama x Pyncheon) hens

Figs (Pyncheon hen) and Bumble Chickskin (Pyncheon x Yokohama) Bumble is a hen, who crows. Her moms are Pickerel and Pumpkinseed who shared hatching her egg and raising her. Her father was a Pyncheon roo.

Morgan/Morgaine and Prinney (Creve de Couers) Morgan (on left) is a hen with rooster characteristics, crows and rarely lays eggs.

CinderFella gathering his girls for a punkin treat

10 years ago we met this little man, who grew up to become this handsome rooster, and we named him Quilt. He is a Pyncheon roo, very smol. Day before yesterday his age, the seemingly endless damp and the cold all combined to get the better of him and we found him close to death in his enclosure. We brought him inside to the "hospital crate" after drying him off and set him up with a heat lamp.

"I'm not dead yet! I don't want to go on the cart!"

"Mom?!! Is that you???!!"

“They are stealing my house! Make them stop!”