Taking a look at me crew.

So I think I will start this blog by saying the very exciting news that my partner and I, at 24, are to become Grandparents. Well, rather that Madonna our Silkie hen is broody and started sitting on fertilised eggs yesterday!


So a brief introduction to our pirate chicks. We started a year or so ago rescuing 8 Ex-Batt hens. These were in pretty bad shape when we had them but naturally we gave them lots of love. Sadly over time 6 have gone, but left from a happy home. However here's our current pirate crew:


So Hen 1: 
Name: Helga
Age: Around 2 maybe
Breed: Hybrid (Ex-Batt)

Named Helga as we thought this suited her rather grumpy and (sadly) ugly vulture face! Poor thing. As you can see she has really changed since we got her and now is a very beautiful lady. In the picture she is running towards me as I had some cucumber in my hand, scrummy.


Hen 2
Name: Big Mama
Age: Around 2
Breed: Hybrid (Ex Batt)

Big Mama got her name as she was the biggest of the crew when we got her, though embarrassingly she is now one of the smallest. When we first got her she was looking quite good compared to the others, apart from a bald patch on her chest which she only ever replaced with soft white feathers! I love how this photo shows how pale her comb and face was, not any more though! Beautiful. She is also the only one who loves to perch on my lap!


Hen 3
Name: Sally
Age: 10 months
Breed: White Sussex

Named Sally as she looks rather like a seagull (Sally the Seagull). A pretty poor picture, but she is the only one of our girls who has their own built in bandanna, way to help the pirate cause! This ladies favourite food is pear (as, if they fall from the tree they are gone before I've walked over to pick them up, rude). Her breed can been known to go broody but as yet...no.


Hen 4
Name: Audrey
Age: 10 months
Breed: Unknown!

This lady is MASSIVE but very fun. It's mainly just funny to laugh at her 'run waddle' she does on realising that most of the crew has moved elsewhere in the garden. Also she goes mad for mealworm, and loves being higher than everyone else. Glad we gave her a posh name!


Hen 5
Name: Coco Chanel (or just Coco for short)
Age: 10 months
Breed: Pekin Silkie Cross

I love this little lady, named Coco Chanel due to the fact that she has a very stylish updo! This photo doesn't show off her beautiful feather pirate boots but trust me, they are pretty special. She is the loudest of all the crew, and was the first to go broody (which we discouraged at the time as she had only started laying 2 weeks earlier! ) Coco is a real moaner, but at least it means we are all made fully aware when she is about to lay an egg!


Hen 5
Name: Madonna
Age: 10 months
Breed: Silkie

Madonna is just so fluffy and beautiful, you can tell she is a pure Silkie from her blue cheeks and black skin! She is a bit of a dither and is always the last to join the others if they have moved on round the garden. But that also means she's not one to follow the flock! The most exciting news, as I said earlier, is that she has just started sitting on some fertilised eggs (seen in the picture)! She is sitting on 1 Frizzle egg, 3 Silkie eggs, 1 Poland egg and 1 unknown surprise egg! So wish her lots of luck with her upcoming motherhood!


Not all posts (you will be pleased to hear) will be this long, but I hope you enjoyed the little chicken introductions! 


So the last thing I should say, with the sitting of un-sexed eggs, is to pray and chant with me...GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS!