tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post3735275653095133340..comments2024-03-24T08:32:51.794+01:00Comments on The Holistic Hen - How to raise quail, chickens and pigeons organically in a food forest: Forest Garden Organic Poultry - Symbiosis. Puting the Jungle back in the Fowl?Pavlovafowlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578592110340773950noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post-57988053679624797472017-01-03T22:41:52.459+01:002017-01-03T22:41:52.459+01:00Hi Alisa and thanks for your comment, I appreciate...Hi Alisa and thanks for your comment, I appreciate it and I am so pleased you are enjoying this series. I am absolutely fascinated by the Jungle Fowl studies and am so excited to see comparisons turning up with our chickens' behaviours! My first three hens were two sisters, Ardenner bantams and the colour is silver duckwing. They are quite rare and are little known outside Belgium, Holland and Northern France and now here in the North West! They are, according to a Dutch Chicken Encylopedia I have, said to take on the personality of the keeper, my two were completely different from each other and I am a Gemini! The other was a 'Dorothy', a unique breed, only known to be part Wyandotte and she was covered in little beautiful heart-shaped speckles on her feathers. I have only ever had another hen with similar (though not as well-defined) markings and that is Mille-feuilles and you can see her quite well in this film: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id57p0i9pwU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id57p0i9pwU</a> from 2.53. I will be making a film of these articles too but I will wait until I have written more and I think as I have so much material it will stretch to a mini documentary! Good luck with your forest garden. I am in the process of making one inside the greenhouses for my quail and it is a fun exercise working out what to plant that they won't demolish in one fell swoop! I'm having great success with yucca and they love drinking rain water from the leaves too! <br />All the very best from Normandie, SuePavlovafowlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578592110340773950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post-25614066144979807922017-01-03T00:27:47.462+01:002017-01-03T00:27:47.462+01:00I am loving these articles, as I am trying to give...I am loving these articles, as I am trying to give my hens a more natural environment. Your first three hens were gorgeous...out of curiosity, what breed were they?Alisahttp://www.alisakester.comnoreply@blogger.com