Name That Bird! Part 2

...and to continue,

Guinevere

The other main character from my favourite movie, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day.  She is the more buttoned-up counterpart to Delysia, another Silver-Laced Wyandotte.  More straight-laced, but very much in charge.  She lays medium sized warm brown eggs.

Prudence

I named her this specifically so I could call her Broody Pru.  She is a lovely little Easter Egger that lays small pale-green eggs.  Her father was Ameraucana and her mother, Cochin.  Cochins are known for being very broody.  Prudence is very broody.  She ends up in chicken jail every six weeks or so, but that's a story for another post.  She is such a nice girl but, sadly, someone has to be at the bottom of the pecking order.  That's her.  She bears it with no small amount of grace and growling.

Matilda

Matilda is the Welsummer with the biggest comb, lays the biggest eggs, and may well be the biggest, baddest chicken out there.  No one gives her any grief.  She looks very much like a dinosaur and I think the other hens would agree.  This is the boss.

Penny

Penny is a Silver-Laced Wyandotte with a beautiful comb and delightful, no-nonsense personality.  She gets the job done, just like Henny Penny.  Her comb is the largest of all the Wyandottes, but still low-profile.  Smaller combs hold up better to winter cold.  Penny lays medium brown eggs.

Bessie

Bossy Bessie is an Easter Egger with attitude.  She is small, but don't tell her that.  She is always first.  First to come when you call, first to get out the door, first to talk to you, first to take any treat offered, first to come running to the camera.  She is not at the top of the pecking order, but don't tell her that either.
 

So, now you've met all the girls.  They're a ragtag gang of toughs, but they keep us entertained and fed, so we put up with their shenanigans.  And, most of the time, they put up with us.