Lydia's friend Jo bred these lovely French Wheaten Maran hens in
Perth, Western Australia. They are approximately 2.5 months old
in this photo taken in early April 2018. The two brown little
hens eating from the blue rectangular feed container
(front left hand side of the photo) travelled to regional
Western Australia on 5th June 2018 to live with Chickadee.
Lydia's friends Sonya, Ron and James were kind
enough to collect the 4.5 month old 'babies' from Perth
and drive them a long distance to their new home.
'Frenchy' is the hen with a long black/brown tail in the
top of the photo and 'Speckles' is pictured below.
Chickadee was not impressed at the new arrivals and
she made lots of noise for days afterwards!
4.5 month old Speckles and Frenchy are photographed at
dusk two hours after their first meeting with Chickadee.
The scared newcomers spent their first night sleeping
on the ground in the coop under the nesting boxes.
Frenchy (left) pokes her head out.
Frenchy makes herself comfortable in the
nesting box Chickadee normally sleeps in!
Speckles stands guard. We think that Speckles will be
2IC after Chickadee gets used to being the new boss!
The new kids on the block quickly learn how
to eat from 'Dine-a-chook' feeding station.
Speckles feeds by herself.
Now it's Frenchy's turn for a solo feed.
Frenchy has a rest under the bushes.
Speckles does a 'yoga' wing stretch.
Cranky Chickadee is no where to
be seen as she sooks around the corner!
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