I mentioned the other day that I had brought home two new chicks. We tagged along on a friend’s order from McMurray Hatchery with a request for two black star female chickens. We may have ended up with a soon-to-be rooster rather than hen. We’ll know what’s up when the bird either crows or lays an egg…
The chicks went out for a stroll in the garlic bed today and we couldn’t help but think how the two ingredients would make a great dinner.
4 week old chicks aren’t the most cooperative subjects but we might have gotten a couple of good images. A Polaroid example below.
34 cloves of hierloom garlic were planted back in October and are growing strong. This is our first attempt at growing garlic… it was just last fall that I learned garlic has to be in ground over-winter to produce the individual cloves. Learn something new all the time.
The two varieties are Inchelium Red and Tochliavri from Seed Savers Exchange. Slow Food USA offers some information on the Inchelium Red: “Hailing from the Colville Indian Reservation in Inchelium, Washington, this garlic is a large and beautiful artichoke variety.” Garlicsmiths says that the Tochliavri “…is the pride of the village of Tochliavri in the Republic of Georgia” and it’s flavor “…is often referred to as ideal.”
March 25, 2008 at 4:36 pm |
if you requested two black star chicks, they should have both been black with the red chest to be females. This breed is otherwise known as the black sex link chicken, which means that they can be sexed by their color at birth. They are made by crossing a barred rock hen with a rhode island rooster-the subsequent chicks then are black if female, and look like a barred rock if a rooster. Your one little chick looks like a barred rock, and is definitely a rooster.
March 25, 2008 at 5:04 pm |
Kathy-
You’re right on regarding the sex linked traits of the black star… I’m foolishly, I’m sure, holding out hope that a barred rock chick slipped into the order somehow.
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