For Dana, who likes farm pictures.

This is a fraction of the chaos inside the barn. The new chickens are looking a bit grown up now and venture out, flutter up to perches and generally behave like young chickens. Except the meat birds, of course, they're now the size of the year olds and have enormous feet, they just waddle like ducks.

This is, I think, an ISA Brown cock:


This is the partridge chanteclair, a very shiny bird:

Assorted birds not staying still enough to be identified:

The cock's comb never recovered from the frostbite, still for the moment he has no competition so it doesn't matter if minor bits fall off.