Chicken bald back

[Claireabella]

These ladies have been at the rescue place for a few weeks now along with around another 25-30 rescue ladies awaiting their forever homes. Yesterday we bought four of them home to enjoy a well deserved retirement.

 

Introducing...

 

Ruby - she is almost fully feathered apart from her tummy; appears to be bottom of the pecking order.

 

 

Gertrude - She is missing quite a few feathers and walks a bit funny. Bless, she is adorable.

 

 

Betty - she is the smallest of the four hens.

 

 

Mavis - top girl and the cheekiest chook! She's really taken to my OH and followed him around pecking his jeans as he was filling up the food. He named her Mavis

 

 

And she's not camera shy!

 

 

They have totally melted my heart and two of them even laid an egg this morning. I nearly cried!

[jeshen]

Gorgeous pics of four adorable characters!

[jackian]

Oh! They are just lovely . A new start to a lovely life .

 

Jackie x

[gavclojak]

What lovely ladies they are and well done you for taking them on and giving them the retirement they have work so hard to deserve......their new life starts now, gosh if only they knew how lucky they are

[dancing cloud]

Always lovely to see pix of happy hens enjoying life the way they should and I'm sure they think they're in heaven! Amazing how quickly their characters come through and how different they all are (and how fast they can grab hold of our hearts).

 

That Mavis isn't backwards at coming forwards, is she?

[mullethunter]

Lucky ladies and lucky you - they look ace

[Purplemaniacs]

What lucky girls, they look lovely.

 

Enjoy them.

 

Chrissie

[Luvachicken]

What lovely ladies

And eggs too

[Claireabella]

Thanks for your lovely replies

 

Well, so far, so good. Since Sunday they have spent their days eating, practically non-stop! They've been out in the garden for a wander a few times (when it has stopped raining, that is ) much to the disgust of my other girls who've stood swearing at them from their runs I've been spending an hour or so each evening sitting in the run with them and occasionally hand feeding them live mealworms. They are understandably quite nervous, poor girls, but they are getting used to me and they now peck the ends of my fingers every time they see me...I'm sure they think mealworms will appear Seriously though, I feel really lucky to have them, they're amazing