This is a great description of a start into the Pekin World.....

Pekins, Pekins, Pekins..... and here, I am, yes, after a few years of breeding hens, one day I decided my nephew had grown up enough to take care of a couple of hens. Four years old was just the right age to get started. So, I looked inside the adverts and there was a couple of buff pekin from Barcelona. Good hens for a start.

After two days they were at my place in Málaga. I put them on the floor. They were like two people three months old, dressed in furry clothes, shiney buff. Looking to me with wondering eyes. I showed them to everybody and everybody became in love with them, like me, of these two.

As my brother´s wife didn´t agree with me about hens and my nephew´s age, I was very glad to keep pekins with me. This was the middle of summer and during the winter she started laying. I incubated a lot of eggs but I only got a male as the others died days before being born. I was thinking of getting another female from a different family when she died.

In january I got a new pair from Barcelona too, but born in Germany. A very shiney and clear buff. Another beautiful pair of pekins. I bred with them three and now I think I have the most beautifull buff pekins of the south of Spain. Yes, I´ve seem a lot of buff pekins by here but not ones like mine. Maybe sometimes more lovely, but not as beautifull.

Last year I went to 1st Cochin Day at Zeddam – Netherlands . Lovely pekins there. When I returned to Málaga I took with me a pair of lavender pekins from Belgium. Of course they aren't like my buff ones, but they are good too. As I though, I needed a lavender pekin from another family, so I got another pair from a friend at La Coruña, in the north of Spain.

So, this year I hope to be the owner of the best lavender pekins in the south. Also, my nephew, told me the other day, she prefers the lavender ones.

F. Sánchez