The newest addition to my little family.........

His name is Rooster Cogburn.

He was supposed to be here today, but the lady I am getting him from had an emergency and could not make it. So sorry. But I will get him tomorrow.

He is too cute. A mille fleur Bantam rooster and although I don't have a photograph of him, he looks kinda, sorta like this...........

 

 

Rooster Cogburn has more black on him then this and his tail feathers are a little more gracefully shaped and longer. He is indeed a handsome fella!

 

I know a lot of people think I am crazy, (big surprise), but I don't want a big rooster. I really like the smaller bantam roosters because they inflict less damage, if they inflict any at all. My left leg still boasts scars from that big nasty Rhode Island Red rooster we had when I was a teen-ager.

 

I remember complaining about that stinkin' rooster to my Daddy. So my Dad gave me one of those little folding Army shovels to take into the chicken pen when I went to collect eggs. "Just whallop him once or twice", Dad said.

 

I have to thank Daddy for that. I had a killer backhand in tennis that year. All these years later, I still don't feel sorry for that stinkin' rooster. Holy guacamole, he never, EVER gave up. Just kept coming at me until I walked out of that pen.

 

I came home one afternoon and the rooster was nowhere to be found. So I asked my Dad...."What happened to the rooster?" His answer? "He attacked me, so I killed the SOB."

 

What. The. HAY?????

 

Which is why I like LITTLE roosters. I am looking forward to adding him to my little family. I am getting ready to build a new chicken house and run, so this is going to be fun. I purchased plans for the cutest little playhouse and will make it into the chicken house of my dreams. This is a pic, but mine will be painted differently.............

 

I am thinking purple and gingerbread red for the colors. I am building the actual house on a cement slab, but the yard run will be on the dirt. So I have to plan against those critters from digging into the yard I will be doing this...........

 

 

I want to plant some vines and other plants so that the run will look something like this.................

 

 

I do believe I have my work cut out for me. I get to pick up Rooster Cogburn tomorrow afternoon. I will not have all this done before that time. But it's a plan!

 

Ya think???