To tide you over, here are some photos of the chickens. The whole horizontal part of the yard (as compared to the near-vertical part) is securely fenced in, so the chickens get free range -- which they take full advantage of. It was quite pleasant to find them in the shrubbery, usually travelling in a flock.
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| Girl-child contemplating how to grab Betsy the Chicken for long enough to take a photo. |
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| Soufflé and Peaches (aka Shadow) checking to see if Betsy survives the approach of the humans. |
There is a fourth chicken, Angel, the largest of the bunch, but she is also the shyest. This is the closest I got to her.
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| Angel, less confident in her safety than the other chickens. |
There had been a fifth chicken, apparently red, "Colonel Buck-Buck", but she died two days before Closing. Although sad to lose her, we were mostly relieved she died before the hand-off, rather than just after -- we would have assumed we'd done something damaging to the poor fowl.
Aside from eating her eggs, that is. We had four eggs in the 3 days I was at the house.
3 comments:
Nice portraits of girlchild and Betsy, and of the two hens. Excellent names, too: Betsy, Souffle, Peaches.
Excellent chicken names.
I am quite proud of the chicken photo, actually. I think it's almost worthy of COG.
Peaches is also known as Shadow. The Teenager named Shadow and Angel, and Girl-Child renamed Shadow.
I had a pet Shadow (an all black chicken) briefly when I was a kid. So I think all the names are quite good.
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