2008 update
I bought
these 3
late 2007.
They are
called
"COCHINS"
"COCHINS"
posted by NINANINA at 3:21 PM
Thursday, January 24, 2008
About Me
- Name: NINANINA
- Location: richmond, TX, United States
I am a very industrious person, love to do my art, am always busy but I do like to relax and watch idiot tv with my knitting. Knitting is meditation for me. I have lived in Alberta Canada, New Jersey,and England and I have travelled as far as Yugloslavia, Norway and as far north as the Beaufort sea, as well as Alaska. I have mushed dogs and rode the subways of New York. (not at the same time ha ha) I am independant; I love my home and live in an old renovated cottage with a big lot and many trees. I am quite spiritual and I think it reflects in my art and gardening. Currently, I am working as a teachers assistant with juvenile children. I have a dog called DIAMOND, 2 roosters and 17 chickens. I love chickens ;)
Previous Posts
- cartoon
- the gaggle
- big Merlin
- Merlin the little rooster at 3 months
- intermission
- MERLIN AT 2 MONTHS !
- myrtle is not a hen - 6 weeks
- AT ONE MONTH !
- MYRTLE at 3 weeks
- 3 weeks old!
3 Comments:
omgosh these are so cute and adorable! I love the feathers on their legs!
Hey Nina, would you mind sending me an e-mail, couldnt find your e-mail address anywhere, found a picture I thought you might like.
dear nn,
..can't afford to chicken out..do believe
'cochins' would gleefully provide a warm backup chorus to that
sentiment...the point is..once upon a time when i used to be a kid,
i owned a black as the night dog, we all fondly called 'blackey'[sounds
like a story;it is;only-it is true]..and those
days my mom also reared or maintained a small little poultry at home.and that meant we would also have-eggs and--chickens!and therefore in the winter months the chicks
would need to be incubated or sunbathed in the backyard at daytime,by gathering them
together underneath canopies
of small bamboo baskets
....
...enter 'blackey'
-who was then a six to eight month old puppy or young dog[a cross breed
german shepherd].without
being trained in any manner,formal or informal, whatsoever he [blackey] had somehow assumed the role of a protector watchdog for those chickens, and being a passionate bodyguard
for the chicks, would snarl back at and drive away
whoever or whatsoever approached the bamboo incubaters,[save and except my mom]!
..as if this was
not enough, one day blackey ventured upon some frolicking chickens
in the neighbourhood,that did not belong to us,but believing them them to be stray chickens from our lot he
started to grasp them in his mouth,like balls,and dropping and
delivering them to our stock and thus adding on.....even as a kid i realized that technically
this was theft but it enthralled me as it recreated images of cowboys of the wild west stealing cattle!more so so because blackey had in no way been trained to be a
chicken lifter!
..but alas,my thrill over the 'achievements' of my dear dog was simply shortlived, as my
mom knew enough arithmetics to discover
the abrupt growth in chicken numbers;and then inevitably, as she handed back the chickens to our relieved neighbour,he duly admitted being happier about the mystery of the diappearing chicken being resolved rather than their actual recovery.those days we had no camcorders to record such stories..of blackey.. the untrained
selfstyled bodyguard, of hapless helpless chicken!
..luv..c/u. z.g.
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