A friend has hatched some rare breed eggs under a broody.
The Buff Orpington cockeral is a beauty, but the friend is a light sleeper and can't cope with 'the racket' of a cockeral.
She likes him very much so doesn't want him to go in the pot if a working home can be found for him.
The provenance is good - the eggs were from our local Rare Breeds rep!
We would have him ourselves but our current inbred mongrel of a cock is so very good at looking after the hens we dare not depose him.
Hatched 30th June 2012.
(No need to offer cooking pot homes, thanks; if we can't find him a working home we will be eating him ourselves.
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