There's a stockpile of other pictures on my phone that I want to get up here, but here are my ladies as of today. Yes, we have two new ones. Lady Bird had a tragic accident -- she was smushed under a board. That was my real introduction to farming, I think. Anyway, the kids and I didn't want to just leave our flock depleted, so we got two more. Meet Daisy and Beaker. We've only just gotten them fully integrated with the others this morning!
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| Beaker |
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| Daisy |
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| Attila, Red, Becky, Colleen |
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| Red with the babies |
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| Peep, peep! |
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| The big girls kept leaving the babies in the dust.... |
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| Chasing after "mama" (Flour) |
By the way, this morning Jack let me know that he didn't name her "Flower," he named her "Flour". This seems actually very appropriate to our family. :)
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| Look, a flock! I was worried the big girls were going to have a harder time accepting the babies, but they did great. |
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| I love how they all stay in the shadow. |
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| I started by having Daisy and Beaker penned off separately with Flour and Red. You can see they still want to hang together with the ladies they know. Yay, friends! :) |
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| Attila in the back, Flour in the front. |
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| Jack really can't resist them. Especially since the others are so big already! |
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| Becky was the worst pecker when I first tried to introduce them, so I'm really happy that she isn't even attacking them in the hen house now! |
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| And here's where the girls go to bed. You can barely see Daisy's bum right down near Becky. :) |
