Three of my four new Girls! One, however, has not put her best "face" forward for this photo.
Here she is, number four! She's a Buff Orpington and being a very good girl laying her egg thereby missing the group photo.
Introducing "Sugar Pie". She's either of the "Brahma" or "Cochin" breed of chicken. Notice her fluffy, feathered feet.
Chummy and Sugar Pie feast on the emerging greens of a kniphofia despite the wire cage "protecting" it. A bit of chicken wire will stop these naughty girls!
Chummy's lovely feather pattern is called "lacing". She's been named after a character in PBS's Call the Midwife series. Chummy is the tallest of the new hens.
Plummy is black with feathers that have a green and purple iridescence in the sunlight. Her color reminds me of Italian prune-plums when they're ripe. Plummy is coming out of moult presently.
Three of the new girls have feathered feet. All four lay medium-sized, light brown eggs. All the girls are about 1-1/2 years old.
These chickens and their flock mates would have been put to death if homes couldn't have been found for them. Their owner had grown tired of them and wanted them gone.
I took four and other folks took some, too, until all the hens were rescued.
Beth Merayo, rescue organizer, took five of the hens. My neighbors, young Joseph Worch (egg entrepreneur of my "The Egg and Joseph" of March 2nd blog post) and his family, took the black, feather-footed rooster from this flock.
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