This IS a chicken! Today Mike tracked down the breeder we ordered our hatching eggs from. We sent a picture and she identified Kramer here as a dark Cornish chicken! No wonder we could never find her picture searching pheasants. We were under the impression the breeder had only Silkie chickens, guineas and pheasants, so it had to be "one of the above." Turns out she has a few, very few, of this breed as well. Descriptions of Cornish chickens all note that it is an "excellent meat bird" (perish the thought!) but a "poor layer" (curious, as she is reliably laying an egg nearly every day!) I now understand that the roosters chasing her and trying to grab her may have an entirely different purpose than just being mean....
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