Mata Puteh

The following is a video of one of my remaining two Mata Puteh. These tiny birds would rank among the most difficult birds to keep (to me at least) due to the small cups and cages that comes standard with keeping them. The video below shows a full recovery (I hope) after the bird (all two of them) becomes fluffy during one of my extended vacation.



Now my practice before going on extended leave is to provide 3 cups & 1 tube of water, 2 cups of dry food amd 1 big slice of fruit. So far, it appears to be sufficient unless the birds changed their habits.

In the background, a recording of nature sound is playing, Apollo 6 is singing and Pikat, my Jambul is making some noise (recorded at night, close to midnight actually)

Chiku, the escape artist

Male Chicken with female colouring pt2

Too early to say whether this chicken will ever made the grades to become a good pikat. Will let him roam free for the moment until the neighbour complains hahaha!

Called the henny feathering mutation, it causes roosters to develop female feathering morphology as a result of increased conversion of androgen to estrogen.

Male Chicken with female colouring

The above are pictures of the latest addition to my flock of chickens.
The earlier 4 Red Jungle Fowl (RJF) babies are quite big already and I think is of suitable age to be released in the jungle. They are on the tame side though, so unlike my Green Jungle Fowl.

Anyway, back to the above chicken, ah! this is one that I could keep with peace of mind as it does not resemble the RJF, so there is no issue of keeping protested animals involved. At least I do not have to argue that it is not the original, one look and they will know for sure. Rumours has it that some of these female feathered chickens could make very good "pikat" to catch the wild chickens. There could possibly be some logic to it as the wild chickens will tend to be less intimidated by a female looking chicken but at the same time agitated by its male crowing sound. Maybe they would find that irresistible to explore ;)

Don't know what to do with him at the moment. Just let him roam free until the neighbours complain I suppose hehehe!