Henrietta

She is one of the oldies but very goodies. She's over 3 but still laying strong. Popo doesn't much fancy her. He often is chasing her away from the food, but she just says..."um hello, I was here first" It doesn't bother her one bit. She runs from his pecks and then is right back in his face.

Shirley is a b...girl

Forever we thought this silkie was a boy, mainly because he didn't like to be held and all the other ladies LOVE to be held but I guess that's not always true. Today since I would like to know more about who lays which egg, I spent a considerable amount of time outside just watching and being apart of their daily morning ritual. This is what I saw...I've seen the white silkie messing around in the nest boxes closet for a couple days now but I haven't actually seen her lay, but I've never seen the brown silkie in there at all. Today I saw her talking like she wanted to lay and then went in a nesting box for about 1/2 hour to do her business. Afterward she did the obligatory clucking..."I just layed an egg!!" And actually she was quite calm about it so one of the cuckoo marans helped her out..."now this is how you do it" I went right in to gather her egg and there it was all warm. One egg I now know is hers...it's light brown and of course the smallest. And that she's a lady now. BTW I named her Shirley (even when she was a boy)in a round about way to remind me that she is a partridge (the partridge family...shirley jones...is that a stretch?) silkie.

Three of a kind

I don't have a name for these guys and actually they aren't all the same. I have 2 cuckoo marans and 1 barred rock. And I can't seem to tell the difference.