pekins rule!

[petal]

We are having so much fun with these little birds - my daughter regularly brings them in the house - they are like parrots! They are so easy to tame, not flighty, like watching tv and for their size are pretty feisty!(cat watch out!!) Any other pekin lovers out there?

[Bramble-Poultry]

yep, my good lady. we have:-

Cuckoo Pekin
Lemon Cuckoo
Black
Silver Partridge
Gold Partridge
Lavender
Blue
Columbian
Millefleur
Buff
and she is working on getting some pure whites!

and if you thing Pekins are cute, imagine a 9lb in weight Black Pekin, all shiny and beetle irridescent - thats our Cochin Cockerel. Same shape and feet, just huge! and dopey as well

[petal]

Do you sell hatching eggs by any chance?....

[Eco-Chic]

Petal, are the Pekins toilet trained?

They do sound like great fun

[Bramble-Poultry]

we will sell hatching eggs when they come into lay - probably in the spring now. they are to preoccupied in wading around in the mud and straw and keeping warm!

currently our days are spent here restrawing up yards to keep them clean and dry and washing the birds (then warm air drying) the ones that have been too inquisitive and got clarted up in mud.

There is something cool about a pekin sat on the kitchen side having a blow-dry from the hair dryer. they absolutely love it! infact, our columbian cockerel (who by virtue of being pure white with black markings shows every drop of mud and thus is a regular customer to the washing room) seems to lean in towards the warm air stream with his eyes shut - mesmerised!

[RedThorn]

Now that sounds like it needs to be a youtube clip! Sounds brilliant

[petal]

Petal, are the Pekins toilet trained?

They do sound like great fun

not too many poops have occurred, my daughter makes a kitchen towel 'nappy' for them - they don't mind.

[Eco-Chic]

Now photos or video of that would be well worth seeing

Has Petal Daughter patented the Pekin KT nappies?

[moola]

one of my friends crossed a pekin with a silkie and called them pilkies. Basically pekins with punk rocker hair do's. The pekin cockerel was a red (not an official colour) and silkie was black (I think). Incredible looking offspring

[petal]

I have some pilkie eggs in the incubator!

[petal]

Thought you might enjot these pictures of Marylou and Pippin with their mummy!

[Eco-Chic]

Oh they're really sweet.

They're mummy is stunning. We need a piccie of her demonstrating how to put on a kitchen towel nappie.

[Bramble-Poultry]

Well the Pekin fetish has got worse here. Collected another three pekin cockerels yesterday that needed rehoming! 2 pure white and a black. Given the mud here - probably wont be white for long................