Thursday, February 19, 2009

New Girls


Our Silver Penciled Wyandotte. The poor wee thing was very stressed to be caught and put into a cat carrier. She's quite young, and I hope she'll settle okay.



Our Welsummer. She seems to have dealt with the transition much better. I can't wait to see those dark chocolatey-brown eggs.

No names for either yet. I am hoping they will name themselves.

EDIT: We've named them! Alice (top) and Ruby.

10 comments:

T.L. said...

They are very pretty girls. Hope they settle right in!

gracefruit said...

Thanks, TL! They're already calming down quite a bit. They're probably too full of treats to move. ;)

El Sapone said...

Wow! The silver one is so beautyful.The pattern looks very special. I´ve never seen this before.
Jesterday I talked again to my better half to get us 2 or 3 chicken in spring. He promised me to think about it. Oh, I hope so. I hope your chickens are well.and getting friends with the others.

Charlotte Wright said...

They look lovely. Hope the eggs come soon. We all know the chicken came first, then the egg!!

gracefruit said...

Sannyas, I hope he agrees to the hens. They are the best pets. And they're very easy to look after.
There are some gorgeous breeds in Germany -- Hamburgs are so pretty.

Thank you, Charlie! We're still waiting for the eggs.

Mimmi said...

It was nice to read your blog.. very interesting.. :)
I am hoping too, that the cute hens will settle right in soon..

El Sapone said...

Hi!
Cool! My perants come from Hamburg. Next time when I´ll visit them I will have a look. But do you think I can carry them 800km by car? I think this could be to stressful. Probably I could find a breed here, too.

gracefruit said...

H, thank you for stopping by! :)

S, I think you can find a breeder much closer. In fact, I was reading last night that the Hamburg is actually a Dutch chicken!

Anonymous said...

Your new girls are simply gorgeous! I'm up late catching up on my blog reading, but I'm going to show this to my kids tomorrow. Ds#1 will love them. :)

gracefruit said...

Thank you, Teresa! I hope DS1 approves. :)