Characters

I've made a pact with myself today. I'm going to find things to smile about. It's time for a fun post, this should help me remember the simple, good things in life.

Here are some characters in my life.

Amelia...she's Andy's favorite. She's an English breed called a Buff Orpington.



Maggie...someone asked me if I named her that because of her red "hair" thinking she looked like Anne-Margaret! Maggie is an Easter Egger and hopefully will lay blue or green eggs.



Emma...another Easter Egger and this bird is one of my favorites. She's friendly but dumb as a post! We laugh so hard watching her. Her simple-mindedness makes her do some of the funniest things. She's pretty low on the totem pole, as far as pecking order. The only one lower is poor little Amelia and the three youngest girls.



Abbie...yet another Easter Egger. She is one of the hierarchy and looks like a mad hawk. She's actually quite a doll!



I call Abbie, Emma and Maggie the "Stygian Witches" because they are always together, being all from the same hatch and most likely sisters. Here they are conferring over half a yellow zucchini, along with their coopmate Lucy, a Golden Comet. Another Golden Comet, Rosemary, is almost out of the photo.



Louise...Yet another Easter Egger, but this one is the youngest and is picked on terribly. In fact this one and my two Black Sex-Link girls are all three the youngest and came from a different hatchery and altho they can all roost together at night with the older chickens, I usually separate them during the day.



Rosemary...another Golden comet. She is high on the pecking order too and is usually right there with the Stygian Witches when it comes to food. I think she's about ready to start laying eggs. She will lay big huge brown eggs. I only have green-blue egg layers and brown egg-layers. I don't have any white egg layers.



Lucy...another shot. She's a very sweet chicken. She should start laying soon too! I can't wait for eggs!



Jackie...a Black Sex-Link chicken. She looks like she was in my face because she was in my face. She flew onto my lap 3 times while I was sitting on a chair in front of the open coop door, trying to take these pictures.



Betty(sometimes called Thelma), Louise and Jackie...the three youngest and the ones who have to stay up on the roosts while the big girls are in the coop. They usually sit on the roosts or on the top of the nest boxes where I have a feeder and waterer on it so they can eat and drink while the older chickens are inside with them.



A few random shots...