5 Going over to meet the hens we are adopting from Tijen.
6 The boys just loved this experience!
7 That's Margo :)
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10 And the big fluffy Orpington is Butterscotch I think.
11 The Orpingtons tend to be a little pudgy and cuddly. Sam wants an Orpington, too.
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13 The chicken mommies! THANK YOU, Tijen!
14 The girls are in their new home - two Araucanas and one Red Star, named Ramona, Audrey and Ednamode, respectively. Sam is going to add surnames to them so they can carry both names with them.
15 I think one is John? He started naming them after his sitters. Holly, I think one is named after you, too!
16 Eating a lot!
17 Ben is checking out their adjustment to the coop. It is raining but he doesn't care!
18 He inches his way closer and closer. Loud Ben was strangely quiet and sweet, just watching and watching them.
19 In a bit more now.
20 Hmmm...I can almost touch them!
21 Happy boy!
22 Can't wait 'til Sam gets home from school. He wanted them to be here waiting for him.
23 Such a funny guy! That is chicken face!
24 Then he wanted the window locked.
25 Sam's first look at the hens!
26 Letting them out into the run, now that we have finished securing it.
27 The hen door is open!
28 Come on out!
29 They were really checking each otherh out. The two Araucanas are on either side - they lay blue eggs. The Red Star, Ednamode, is in the middle.
30 They started scratching and finding bugs RIGHT away.
31 Of course next on the agenda was earn trust so we could pick one up and pat her.
32 Spying on them to see if they are laying an egg!
