We've started our own chapter of the Sisters in Crime. I swear we spend more time dreaming up female names for chooks than is good for your sanity. But yesterday we went to the Seymour Expo and I was lucky enough to pick up 4 Barnevelder pullets. They are not great photos - I'll get better ones when I can actually get close to them. They are a little bit shy and a tiny bit overwhelmed at the moment. Aunty Jack's leaving them alone - mostly he's peeping at them from around posts and behind cover.

So meet Leigh, Leah, Lindy and Katherine (the second photo is them all having their first big dustbath). The first one is their first foray into the chook paddock. They are the most glorious looking girls, especially with the sun glinting off their beautiful feathers. I will try for better photos over the next few days - they are going to have to get used to be admired up close and personal (I used to have one of these chooks that was so tame she was a pest - a few times I nearly chopped her head off with the hoe or other garden implement as she used to hover waiting for worms and things as I weeded gardens. She was very partial to cheese and hot mustard on her sandwiches, but garden salads for lunch were her favourite - and she'd stand on my forearm to share direct from the plate if I didn't stick up for my lunch!)