my girls

thought i would take a moment and introduce the newest members of our family...

about 2 weeks ago we received 6 baby chicks in the mail.  sadly one of them didn't make it, but was easily replace by a chick of the same variety from our local co-op.  (we won't be mail ordering anymore)  then last weekend the girls (human ones not chickens) and i went to the co-op for feed and couldn't resist buying a couple more little fluff balls.  well, ok, we bought 3 more.  in our defense, i had researched the breads and discovered that the new ones we bought were the absolute best for eggs.  sooooo without further ado....my ladies...well, our ladies.....

shelly was the first chick to be named.  her name was chosen by shorty and she is named after the turtle in her sister's classroom.  because "a turtle is like a chicken".  i couldn't argue with that logic.  the original shelly was the smallest and noisiest of the original chicks...very fitting a chick named by shorty.  unfortunately the original shelly is the one that didn't survive, so a different chick became shelly.  it's a rather convoluted story of musical chicken names, but this one is shelly for now and evermore.  shelly is a welsummer chicken.

aleah was named by the bean child after some friend of a friend at school.  i'm not sure the whole story and i don't really care.  aleah is also a welsummer.  bean is pretty sure that the chicken knows her.  whatever.

alana is the last of our welsummer girls...and i am kinda thinking she isn't a she.  we'll have to wait to know for sure, but i have my suspicions.  she is actually the "replacement" for the passed on original shelly.  are you following this??  anyhow, she is named alana because originally we couldn't tell her from aleah, so we decided they were twins.

venus is supposed to be an americana, but as you will see in a moment, she looks very much like some red star's that we have.  guess we wait to see on this one too.  either way, she was our original blond, hence the name venus.

miss moneypenny is also an americana.  she arrived at this name because i love james bond movies and just couldn't name my gal "pussy galore".  i mean really!  i have children!  can you imagine her talking about that one to her kindergarten class?!?  miss moneypenny is a bit of a show off.  she will pick up random bits of whatever (sawdust, poop, food) and run around like she has some treasure until all the others are chasing after whatever it is she has...which is nothing.

i named maya after maya angelou.  i was trying to think of good women names and came upon maya for this little birdy.  she is the last of our americanas and will hopefully lay tons of beautiful blue/green eggs.

that concludes the original six chicks we received.  our latest additions are:

mario.  who i think looks like a super-model.  isn't she standing there so absolutely perfectly???  mario was the name chosen by bean when i told her she had to name it something that was red.  i decided mario was better than "firetruck", which was her first choice.  mario is a red star.

elmo is also a red star chick.  elmo was shorty's pick for something that is red.  she's showing a bit of leg here!

and finally, this is skunk.  the girls (humans again) really wanted a black chicken so we got a black one.  you can barely see the white stripe on her head that gives her her name.  skunk is a cuckoo maran...i just love the name.  she will grow to be black and white spotted (kinda like her feathers on the side there).

and that is our new additions here on mount wormley.  should make for a very interesting summer!!!

(anybody need any eggs??)

~michelle