Meet Peckadilly Circus:
And here is Attila the Hen:
Last but not least, Atomic Cluck:
Peckadilly has the lightest feathers of the bunch (I also think she lays the very light beige speckled eggs, but I'm not certain). She is a little shyer and more reserved than the others, not as boisterous and busy as her namesake.
Attila, on the other hand, is noisy and meddlesome. She is unremarkable in coloring, but she lets you know she's around with all her little clucking. She marched right up and pecked DaVinci in the nose the first time they met! She also likes to perch in odd places, like the AC window units. Always conquering new territory, that Attila!
Atomic is the most easy-going. She has a white ring of feathers around her neck, rather like the face of a clock; hence the name. She was the first to lay an egg and seems to enjoy being petted (or at least tolerates it better than the others ;-). But she does have a nasty habit of pecking my toes when I'm in sandals. She doesn't do it when I have sneakers, so I can only assume that my pale wiggly toes look like tasty grubs or something!
Adorable names! Birds have such wonderful personalities!
ReplyDeleteOur birds peck our toes too, and that means they want to be picked up. My hubby's hen won't stop pecking his feet until he stops what he's doing and picks her up and tells her what a pretty bird she is. She is very demanding of his time and attention. She tolerates me, but adores him. She even has a fancy strut just for him that makes me roll my eyes.
We leave our windows down on our trucks and will often find eggs on the seats. Quite funny!
I enjoy your posts!
We are definitely enjoying their personalities. They tend to follow me around the yard and come running when I call, which is quite fun. I'm sure it's because they're hoping for food, not that they are so fond of me!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the laugh this morning. We have only named one of our chickens (we have 35). Her name is "Her majesty Lady Grey" because she doesn't like to stay in the garden, and kind of does as she pleases. We have 3 Arukana chickens( the ones that lay multicolored eggs). They have very different personalities than the others. Chickens are fascinating!
ReplyDeleteThirty five chickens would definitely be hard to keep straight! We would love to have some of the Araucana someday. Not just for the pretty eggs, but I've heard the same about their great personalities. Now that we have chickens ourselves, Jeff and I laugh thinking of Tara and her Peep-Peeps.
ReplyDeleteThat cracked me up! The names, and your 'grubby' toes :-) And, you know, though I've been 'around' chickens, I never really got to know them that way...personality wise and all. Good to know!
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