Kimora has been the head teacher hen since twenty-four hour period one . A natural leader , she was the one who picked my pugs the daywe picked our chickens from the farm , and has even challenge my alpha pug when it comes to rule the turf . She is calm , cool and hoard , and is not afraid to fight down her place on the highest pole in the henhouse .
Kimora is far from being a hooligan , though . She love to lead her sisters on backyard forages and never strays far from the great deal . At dusk , she ’s the last one to retreat to the chicken coop . She linger by the bottom of the ravel , making sure everyone else is safely tucked inside before she claim her favorite roost , the airy attic infinite .
When I divagate outdoors , she is the first to head for the hills and recognise me , eagerly awaiting whatever treat I have in my hand . She ’s got the quickest hooter in the west and will snatch mealworms right out from under the other female child ’ neb . She loves to adopt me around the garden because as mind hen , she always has to know what ’s happening on her homestead .
Kimora is the most odd and adventurous somebody of the flock , a hen after my own pith . She loves to uncover fresh corner to pick at and scratch . With spare range of almost 10,000 square foundation , she ’s determined to discover every in of dirt , mulchand brick on her journey as a backyard chicken .
Plucky little Kimora is a Barred Rock , a dual - purpose American breed that uprise in New England in the mid-19th C . The first strain to bear the Barred Rock name was exhibited at the body politic ’s first domestic fowl show in Boston , Massachusetts , in 1849 , though its origins before that are still somewhat of a mystery .
The Barred Rock ( named for its black - and - white stripy feather , a pattern called barring ) was the first strain to be developed in the Plymouth Rock strain . The original Plymouth Rocks are believe to be crosses of Dominique males and Black Cochin or Black Java female person , and the barred variety bear a chance on resemblance to the Dominique inheritance breed .
Kimora has beautiful dark - and - white speckled plumage and a tuft of feathers on her butt that ’s as easy as a baby chick ’s .
Since bringing her home a couple months ago , I ’ve acknowledge that her combing ( the small patch of skin on top of her forefront ) has easy grow and darken in colouring , from pale pink to salmon pink ( it will eventually turn red at adulthood ) . The coloring on her longsighted and lean leg has also shift from a lite buff to a bold yellow .
She has quite the level-headed appetite ( we ’ve dub her “ Choinker , ” our lovely terminal figure for a chicken oinker ) and I have no doubt she will give us plenty of big , beautiful browned eggs shortly .
