Poultry

Yesterday, I let the poultry out into the third yard for some supervised exploration.

They are really pretty birds.

This is one of the Polish roosters (there are 2 like this one).

Here are two roosters (white ones), and one of the ISA browns is tucked behind our two Wyandottes.  

And, of course, Harry likes to walk slowly around looking majestic.  

Lastly, here is Lavender, Malachi's lavender orpington.  To the left of her is Belle, one of our home-grown barnyard mixes.  She is now at the bottom of the pecking order, after being quite bratty near the top for several years.  She's our only blue-egg layer left.

All together, we have Harry the turkey, 2 black Astrolop hens, 1 lavender orpington hen, 3 sapphire gem hens, 1 buff orpington hen, 1 barnyard special hen, 3 ISA brown pullets, 2 Wyandotte pullets, 3 mystery cockerels, and 3 Polish (2 cockerels, 1 pullet).  The pullets will probably start laying in August, and soon we will need to cull some roosters.