Merry Christmas

The official photos of the 2 Happy Hens on Christmas Day 2011.

The girls have their second Christmas at home in Western Australia.

What's that noise? Is that Santa coming?  I can hear jingle bells....

I hope Santa brings Curry some preening lessons so she can clean her dirty bottom!

Miss Giblet stands guard and gives the evil eye to the camera. 

 You can see her moulting a little bit around the neck and on her breast.

The 2 Happy Hens eat dirt on Christmas Day. 

Curry is moulting more than Giblet on her breast.

Curry looks like a bit of a scruff this Christmas!



Little rocks and grass are also on the menu on Christmas Day!

Silly season is in full swing as Curry shakes and walks at the same time!

Bend and Stretch This Silly Season

 Curry does a coordinated wing and leg stretch.

The 2 Happy Hens have dirty bums from a recent dust bath.

Curry takes a moment to stretch.

Giblet scratches her head.

Curry scratches her head and is upside down standing on one leg like a crazy chicken!  Crazy Curry! 

Giblet is obviously the more sensible chicken of the pair!

Silly season is here and Curry wins the funny photo competition!

Christmas Cartoon

Needless to say, this Christmas card is my all-time favourite!

Preen Queen

Giblet is the Queen of preening and starts under her right wing.

Then preens under her left wing.

Giblet opens both wings and preens right inside.

She looks a bit like a headless chook in this photo!

 The Preen Queen fluffs up her top leg.

What's up there Gibby?

  

The Preen Queen is all clean and beautiful ready for a walk in the garden.

Child's Play

Today my old uni friend Darren bought two of his kids around to meet the 2 Happy Hens. This photo is of Giblet in the greenery with the junior spectator leaning on a fake egg "borrowed" from the coop! 

Nice coloured sandals Amelia!

A sea of red heads in the garden as the kids come out to play with Curry!

The 2 Happy Hens are not used to having a junior fan club sharing their yard!

Sleeping Beauty

Curry sleeping in the grass in front of an abandoned nest site.

Curry is mostly awake in this photo.

Curry is dozing off and is half asleep.

Sleeping Beauty. 

This scene is typical of the 2 Happy Hens different personalities.

Curry is sleeping in the background and Giblet is digging a hole. 

One loves to sleep, the other loves to dig....so typical.

 Giblet's hole is getting deeper whilst Curry is still in "chicken dream land".

The "digging queen" actually dug a square hole approx 20cm x 30cm

as if to prepare the ground for a pot plant to be planted! 

When I went to take a photo of this impressive hole the next day,

it had already been backfilled!



Hole Diggers

Miss Giblet is the queen of digging and loves hunting for worms.

Giblet exiting the hole and Curry moving in to take over digging!

A funny photo of Giblet bending over with her mouth open.

The 2 happy hens are looking for more good spots to dig holes.

Giblet found a good spot to dig under the reticulation.

Curry coming for a hole inspection.

Curry decides to start scratching independently.

Happy Anniversary

Today is exactly one year since Curry and Giblet came to live with us.

One year of fun, fun, fun and about 100 kilos of chook poo!

Not to mention dozens of lovely fresh eggs.

The snail population has gone from about a million down to about two snails rarely seen alive in the yard!  My friend Jenny would love to see the end to "snail parties" in the wet weather at home!

Weeds (especially the dreaded onion weed) have been greatly diminished and gobbled up as "chicken spaghetti" and no more problems with lawn beetle or slaters!

There has been an enormous improvement in our soil quality which is almost as good as Pete's vegie patch (as seen on Gardening Australia TV show!)

Below is one of my all-time favourite photos of Curry who is such a funny chicken. Miss Dora the Explorer loves to jump in cars the minute you open the door!

Maybe I should sell the photo to Toyota for their new advertising campaign?!

Oh what a feeling, Toyota!

Winter Warmers

The 2 happy hens love to soak up the sun whenever possible on a winter's day.

Curry with her wings out catching sun on top of Giblet.

I can see you Curry (behind Giblet).

The 2 Happy Hens don't look very comfortable but they really are!

Sleeping in the sun, siesta time.

Curry Cuddles

Curry is a big sook and loves to jump on Gerard for rubs and chicken massage under her wings several times a day!

Curry loves pats and quickly closes her eyes for little chicken naps.

Curry nice and relaxed getting spoilt!



Curry sleeping whilst standing on Gerard's foot. Giblet is not so fond of being patted and rubbed but we are working on her to be as affectionate as her sister Curry!

Preening Time

The 2 Happy Hens preening in the car port. They like to locate themselves near the corrugated iron fence where it is nice and warm during the winter months.

Preening in the front garden. Giblet loves the sun.

Curry sleeping on the job again!

The 2 Happy Hens were 6.5 months old in this photo. It was an unplanned photo where I slipped and accidentally pressed the camera button during preening time. I wish the photo was perfect and didn't half cut off Curry on the left hand side!  Curry has since lightened in colour whilst Giblet has remained a brick red colour.







Chicken Superpit

The famous open cut gold mine commonly known as "The Superpit" is a local tourist attraction and major employer in the town where the 2 Happy Hens live.  Hence the frequent and favourite past time of dust bathing has been nicknamed "Chicken Superpit". 

Curry is a huge fan of making a mess and creating chicken superpits all over our yard.

I think we are up to "Chicken Superpit 100" in less than a year! 

Who needs a pet dog to dig up your yard?!

Curry can kick dirt so high it goes over the front fence which is 1.2 metres high!

Little Miss Mega Mess x 2!

Curry sleeping in the chicken superpit.



Time for more dust bath action. Curry kicking Giblet in the head - poor Gibby!

Giblet shaking - what a huge dust cloud!



Chicken Limbo

The 2 happy hens love to play in our carport and eat little stones to help their digestion. Of course all the yummiest little rocks are located under the car so they get down low and go, go, go!  Enjoy the photos of chicken limbo under the car (Curry being Dora the Explorer again!)

Where's Curry now? Can you see the brown ball of fluff?

Oh there she is under the car!

Come out from underneath there Curry!

Double trouble!

Giblet the first one out.

Hello!