Welcome Home

The welcome committee - new members x 12 - when I came home this evening.

Fourth Set of Pieces for Exhibition

Something a little different - I really love my hens, so had to have some pictures of them included. This idea I saw in a book on digital imagery for fabric and although it was used in a landscape situation, I thought it would be fun to try.
Here we have the Blue Andalusian rooster (Blue), some of the hens (a mixture of Blues and Bantams), and a stash of hidden eggs I found. Covered with the florist's gauze, quilted in a grid and then some of the gauze cut away. Fun!

A Surprise Family!

If you look really hard you can see 2 little chickens in the grass! Mum had been missing for a while and I was hoping that she would appear with a little family - 4 Blue Andalusian chicks (one dead). They will have to be shifted though, because the nest is not in a safe place.

New Additions to the Family

Four little Blue Andalusian chicks hatched on New Year's eve - 2 black, 1 silver and 1 will be grey. 2 bantam mothers.

This is about the only time this chicken will be able to sit on mum's back - soon they will be too big!

Hurrah for Me!

I've had the new chook house for 2+ weeks now and everyday have been trying to entice the Blue Andalusians into it. At least they were allowing me to get reasonably close to them!
Well, last night I managed to catch all 4 of them - rounding them up, using the badminton net to throw over their flapping wings, putting my hand over their heads to stop them letting the whole valley know something 'bad' was happening, and finally letting them loose in their new home.
This morning the body aches in a few places, from the bending and hunkering down to catch them. But, I'm so pleased it is done and was relatively easy.
This is 'Blue', he's such a beautiful rooster and very gentle.

Here are 2 of the girls.

Well, I've never seen ...

a chicken's egg so small!
It must be from my bantam chicken. The other eggs are from the Blue Andalusian chickens.