The evening before my birthday Brad insisted I go to the allotment with him while he dug up potatoes for dinner and there they were! 2 beautiful little bundles, they were in the run with the rest of the ladies (whose feathers were definitely ruffled)
I am blessed with a very content bunch of girls, who quickly and without much fuss sorted out the hierarchy and everything settled back to normal rather easily.
I named them "Betty" and "Frankie" and fell in love immediately.
Betty a soft bundle of white and ginger feathers is challenging Rose in my heart for firm favourite, she's my little shadow and waits for me at the gate, busies herself around me as I do my daily routine and lets me pick her up and cuddle her without so much as a squeal or a squeak. She's cross between a Light Sussex and an ISA Brown. She's a darling and rushes to me for protection when the others chase her from the food or treats and remind her that she, as the smallest of the bunch, is on the lowest possible ranking amongst them. She will hide behind my legs and cosy up to my back as I crouch or kneel...I melt!
Frankie(named after my Granny) is a mesmerising mix of a Bluebelle and Nera so she has the dark grey/blue head of the Bluebelle, a neck which is streaked with Orange all the way down to her chest with a blue laced body - she's a beauty and she knows it. She too is clingy to me -I guess that's to be expected as they find their feet and place in the coop. I shall be sad should it ever stop, selfish of me I know but I love having our wee conversations as I go about sorting their coop out each day.
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