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[Christian]

Congratulations! Can't wait for the pics!

[CallyChook]

yay, new chooks!

 

looking forwards to the photos xxx

[Cinnamon]

Here you go then.

They are not great because the girls are a bit shy still,but I did my best.

I had forgotten how hard hens are to photograph !

 

The White Star,already a cheely little beggar (she escaped from the pen in the hen shop,so Hubby decided she was the one for us ) is called TEAZEL

 

The Blue Belle is a buxom wench,who we have named VIOLET

 

The Calder ranger has a really long hooked beak. She is darker red with black tail feathers & is called RHUBARB

 

The Gold Line is the pretty pale red one with lots of white feathers,& the most bold. She is called BAY

 

 

[Egluntyne]

Lovely. Congratulations.

[Mercedes55]

They look absolutely gorgeous

[beach chick]

beautiful! especially Violet, I have a soft spot for bluebells as 2 of my first 4 were bluebells.

is the white star the same thing as a white leghorn?

[sparkysmum]

Soooo lovely, congratulations. Alli x

[Griffin]

Looks like you'll soon be getting eggs from Violet

[migsy]

Lovely.

 

Beach Chick - White Stars are a hybrid version of a White Leghorn I think. I've got an Ancona which is a Leghorn type bird and I'm looking forward to some white eggs. Boy, they can fly high!

[Cinnamon]

Looks like you'll soon be getting eggs from Violet

 

Yep,hope so - Vi has a lovely well developed comb already

Oddly,for the biggest girl,she is by far the most shy & is always hiding in the Eglu

[Plum]

What are you talking about they are really good photos. Lovely girls

[jill the potter]

OOhhh they look lovely..........

[CallyChook]

really nice girls, real beauties xx

[MarkBevBen]

Fabulous pictures Sarah and what lovely girls you've got too

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Beautiful girls, congratulations .

 

I like the synchronized leg lifting in the 2nd photo .

[chicken bark]

Beautiful girls, congratulations .

 

I like the synchronized leg lifting in the 2nd photo .

I had to go back and look again at the photos.

 

Lovely girls.

[green]

Looks like you'll soon be getting eggs from Violet

 

Yep,hope so - Vi has a lovely well developed comb already

Oddly,for the biggest girl,she is by far the most shy & is always hiding in the Eglu

 

Awww, they're gorgeous, especially the Bluebelle. Mine's the friendliest of the two and bit of a favourite, just don't tell the Speckledy! My Bluebelle hasn't got a proper comb yet, so maybe too early to be waiting for eggs...

[chickencam]

They are lovely girls and great photos too, they all look really healthy and quite well advanced, you should have eggs soon

 

We have a Goldline and a Bluebelle, Maddie The Goldline is the friendliest girl we have had and is into everything always nipping in the back door to eat the cat food at any opportunity, she is very similar to yours very pretty. Ghost our Bluebelle is a big scardy, she is by far the biggest and heaviest of the young girls, but she takes fright at everything and doesn't like being handled,she is bottom of the pecking order too.

[Lewis]

Looking good

 

I miss my hybrids. They were do fat they'd run over for food and you could just scoop them up, the banties can just run off again

 

They have a different smell too!

[Cinnamon]

We split the big hen pen today & now have the new girls in one half,the old girls in the other.

It was a bit of a feat of organisation really, as the new girls were in the Eglu we needed to move,but we got there in the end.

I have added extra security orange twine on the top of the seperator for the moment,as last time the old ones just flew over the top & got in the new ones half

 

In the photo,the new half is on the left,with their Eglu the other side & a hole cut into the seperator,just so they have a little more space.

The new girls 'half' butts up to the Bantam pen...you can see their pink Eglu in the background.

 

Peace reigns,for the moment

 

 

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Looks ingenious .

[Cinnamon]

Just come home from Tesco to find 3 of the newbies in the oldies pen, one oldie in the newbie pen & 1 newbie free ranging in the garden with the oldies.

 

Back to the drawing board......

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Best laid plans .

 

I had that with my new girls - one of them ended up sleeping in the eglu in the (locked) WIR. She was supposed to be sleeping in the old Omlet run . Still don't know how she did it .

[Cinnamon]

Yep,I think that my Bay has a death wish,actually

[Plum]

Well that's your integration done then