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<\/a>Carrie - Head chicken<\/p><\/div>\n
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Annalisa is a Rhode Island Red. \u00c2\u00a0I feel she may give Carrie a run for her money in the chook pecking order.<\/p>\n
<\/a>Annalisa - up for the challenge of being head chicken<\/p><\/div>\n
Capricorn, or Crappa Corn as Tenneille pronounces it, is a Chinese Silkie, who, I am afraid to say, is the kind of chicken from where the term ‘bird brain’ may have been penned. \u00c2\u00a0Although, that funky feather do is rather happenin’ don’t you think!<\/p>\n
<\/a>Capricorn<\/p><\/div>\n
Now last, but certainly not least, is our other Chinese Silkie. \u00c2\u00a0I’m sorry to say I don’t know what her name is currently. \u00c2\u00a0For some reason it has changed numerous times over the last 7 months since she came to join our chook family. \u00c2\u00a0I think she started out as Princess, then Goldie, then it could have been Twilight (no, my kids know nothing of vampire movies) and now of course I<\/em> have bird brain, not really knowing what she is currently called. \u00c2\u00a0If I ask the girls, I will get different responses. \u00c2\u00a0So lets just call her chook number 4! Chook No. 4<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our chooks are affectionately known as ‘the girls’. \u00c2\u00a0They are so efficient in cleaning up scraps and eating bugs. \u00c2\u00a0They wait very impatiently every morning to be let out into the chook yard where they spend their days scratching for … Continue reading
\nShe’s a bit camera shy and currently very disgruntled, as we haven’t allowed her to sit on the eggs laid by the other girls, while she is clucky. \u00c2\u00a0She is very desperate to be a mum, but with all the foxes around here, I don’t want to have baby chickens on the foxes dinner menu.<\/p>\n<\/a>