We’ve managed to step up our fresh egg production with the addition of the Brahmas, Miss Nora and Miss Dora Tweedie, whom we hatched last year, along with three cockerels, Basil, Manuel and The Major. In contrast to the tiny Pekins the Misses Tweedie are great galumphing gals, but they are extremely gentle and Nora in particular has formed a friendship with the tiniest of our Pekin bantams, Freya.
We intended keeping the boys too but when we spoke to the chap from whom we sometimes get our Pekin hatching eggs he expressed an interest in the Dark Brahma, Manuel. We agreed to swap him for some fertile Pekin eggs and he’s now living on a farm near the coast with his new Brahma girlfriend, Bertha. He’s been re-named Bertie and we hope he’ll produce lots of lovely offspring for his new owners.
Oddly enough, as we drove Manuel/Bertie to his new home we had to stop in the road for a flock of guinea fowl who were filing out of a farmyard. Since Hannah is thinking about getting some guinea fowl this year, I wound down my window and shouted, “Hello” to a chap I could see, and we got chatting. I asked if he would be selling any keets. He said he wasn’t planning to this year, although he might have some hatching eggs ready in a few weeks.
I mentioned that we were taking a Brahma cockerel to one of his neighbours half a mile up the road and he said he fancied a few Brahmas so, a few days afterwards we found ourselves taking Basil and The Major to their lovely new home too. They’ve settled in well with the free-ranging guinea fowl flock and we’ve had a video of them foraging happily around together. I like to think all the boys can hear each other crowing from their respective farms. Odd how life works out sometimes isn’t it?
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Lovely Brahmas, we have some and agree about them being gentle giants. Really like your blog, you’re living our dream of having a smallholding! We hope to do the same some time in the future.
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