My three girls were supposed to arrive between 2.00 pm and 5.00 pm yesterday. When they hadn’t arrived by 5.00 pm I started to get anxious.
The phone doesn’t get answered after 5.00 pm so I e-mailed the lady to ask if she could track when they would arrive. She was very apologetic and said that the courier had been held up in traffic and was running late but was on his way to me.
She e-mailed again that he was 40 minutes away and then again that he was 10 minutes away. He arrived at 5.45 pm.
I had separated the small part of the run and had put a barrier around the little coup and feeding station as I wanted to give the girls a chance to have food and water before going in the coup but wanted to confine them close to the coop so that I would be able to get them in easily.
After being confined to the chicken carrier for so long the girls were not interested in the food and water but just wanted to escape the small area I had put them in. As the main flock were already in the chicken shed and the pop hole was closed I decided the safest thing was to put the girls in the coup.
I checked back on them a bit later and they were settled down with the chabo and the modern game snuggled together and the ardennaise a little away from them.
This meant photos and blogging had to wait until today. I followed my tradition of giving them descriptive names. The chabo is Snowflake, the modern game is Storm and the ardennaise is Gold.
This morning at 7.00 am I let them out. Gold was first out and straight to the water then the food then the water again. Snowflake was next out and Storm was reluctant so I guided her out. They are beautiful and I am thrilled with them.
They must have been used to being handled because they are not bothered by me at all. It looks like Gold is top girl of these three. The only one of the original flock that took more than a passing interest in the new girls was Spot.
Spot was going all around the new girls’ perimeter and being very vocal. It is typical that it is the bottom girl that does this as they want to be sure they don’t remain bottom girl when new girls come along.
The new girls all had food and water then Gold had a dust bath so she is really making herself at home. I am really pleased with how it is going so far.
I feel that I definitely made the right decision to use a courier service to have a bigger choice of breeds. I think these girls are beautiful and make a lovely addition to the flock.
We shouldn’t have favourites really but I just love Storm so much for her quirky and different appearance and her small size. They are all beautiful but I think she is a bit special. I am so happy.
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Lovely birds, Carol, and unusual breeds – I’d never heard of a chabo before – but she looks not dissimilar to a Japanese, with the position of the tail. May they bring you much good luck and happiness: you deserve it!
Chabo is a Japanese breed. She reminds me of a larger serama. I hadn’t heard of them either until now. This breeder only has white but I have read that they come in black and buff too. I am feeling so happy with a bigger flock now and a good mix.
Oh they’re stunning Carol! Is Snowflake much bigger than the seramas? I love the colouring of the ardenaise – very like a gold partridge pekin I used to have. xx
They are lovely. Snowflake is quite a bit bigger than the seramas as is Gold but Storm is tiny in body but has long legs and neck. She reminds me of an egret. xx
Such lovely attractive girls. I laid in bed last night thinking if i could guess their names, I got Snowflake right, One out of three. They seem to have settled in straight away.
They are lovely. Wow, well done for guessing one of their names. You know me so well. Gold was the most difficult to name. They have settled in easily. They eat so much more than the main flock as they are growing. I am filling their dish several times a day but that’s a good sign.
I thought Gold might be Rusty.
I have already had a Rusty, one of our past seramas. I never use the same name again or that would have been perfect for her. I have already used a lot of gold/peach coloured names making it more difficult each time to come up with new ones.