The New Girls

As ever, the arrival of new chooks gets documented here. We'd been planning on getting two new girls even before we lost Arya before going on holiday; with her sad demise we're left with just Skye and Freya, and given Skye is over 8 years old, we don't want any risk of one of the old girls being left on their own (Freya is only 2...).

No names yet, pondering a few, but the white is a White Star, with fantastic frizzy feathers, and she should be quite a small (though apparently feisty) chook, that should also be one of the most prolific egg layers around; while the reddish-orange chook is a Goldilocks, who has a wonderful black-feathered tail, and black flecks and barring in various places.

The old girls had a good wander around the little run on the grass initially, before going off for a wander. They're a little unsettled, and we had to put a light-passing tarp to screen off the new arrivals being seen from the old run, after Skye started to have a bit of a squawk. The new girls, for their part, are very unsure of everything that is brand new - they've lived in a barn so far. So the grass, and the sky, and the cat (oh, they don't like the cat), and just everything has them wide-eyed and a bit skittish.

As I write this we've been talking names. Possibly Amber and Pearl....

Edit: Scratch that, we've arrived at Scarlet and Lexie