The Chicks are Here!

Saturday Mr. Man and I drove to Jasper, Georgia to pick up the girls at Hinton Milling Company. Jasper is about an hour and a half north of Atlanta, with a population of about 2,600. They sell rabbits, ducks and chickens of every size and breed. Mr. Man and I were looking for a couple different breeds (so that we can easily tell them apart) and wanted chicks old enough to go straight outside. We were helped by Robert, who plucked the chicks up with relative ease.













“Letty,” White Leghorn













“Henny Penny”, Rhode Island Red













“Buffy,” Buff Orpington













“Matilda” (aka Tilly), Ameraucana

We got them home and into the coop safely, and they seem to be settling in well. Letty is more confident and assertive than the others and they look to her for security. Buffy is the youngest and therefore smaller than the others but she holds her own and they seem to have bonded together over the stress of moving to a new home. They can be found together pretty much all the time; especially when one of us enters the coop. Penny is especially timid and tries to hide under Letty when we enter the coop. I go inside a couple times each day so that they get used to me and am picking each of them up at least once a day to get them used to being touched/held.

Marley and the cats seem to have taken their appearance in stride and after realizing that Stella can’t get into the coop they have taken to ignoring her sitting outside staring in.