Claireabella Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeshen Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Gorgeous pics of four adorable characters! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackian Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Oh! They are just lovely . A new start to a lovely life . Jackie x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavclojak Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancing cloud Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mullethunter Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Lucky ladies and lucky you - they look ace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 What lucky girls, they look lovely. Enjoy them. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 What lovely ladies And eggs too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claireabella Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
