I got hens!!!

[Gro-Bag]

Hi again - haven't been on the forum for ages, but I went and did it this week, after thinking about it for years - came into a house and run, put it up on Monday night, picked up the girls on Tuesday night - and have been enjoying watching them ever since. Three Crested Cream Legbars, or custard creams as we like to call them. 15 weeks old and very, very sweet. Settling in nicely.

[Lemon]

Congratulations! I trust you are out taking pics now so we can all see?

[Bephlam]

Oh and lovely blue eggs!! Congrats...enjoy your girls!!

[MaureenHall]

Ahhhhhhhh lovely for you to have chooks And lovely for the chooks to have you too!!! Oh yes, pictures are a definite MUST

[lettucegrow!]

Many congrats, welcome to the world of hen watching=time wasting!

[Snadger]

Congrats!

[Flummery]

Oh we must have a pic of your Custard Creams! Have they got individual names (Vanilla or anything like that?)

[bluemoon]

Well Done, though beware, chook watching can become addictive

[julesapple]

Fab!

Someone else with Legbars...now we can compare nuttiness notes!

My Hattie is completely potty, but oh so sweet! Despite trashing my peas & beans, she is my favourite......but don't tell my other girls!

Jules

[RichmondHens]

Jules - I've got 6 Cream Legbar eggs currently incubating. Does this mean I may have 6 nutty chickens???

[julesapple]

Jules - I've got 6 Cream Legbar eggs currently incubating. Does this mean I may have 6 nutty chickens???

You may well be blessed with six total loons, yes! They will wreck your veg, but enrich your life. I am seriously considering getting two more CLs, but need to find out if the picked-on exbatt at DD's falconry needs a home with us first. I would still have room for one more even if I took the battered ex-batt (kinda hoping she does come here and have a better time of it)

Jules

[Gro-Bag]

Thanks for all the replies!
They do have names - Barbara, Edith and Nancy, but we tend to refer to them as the Custard Creams, or the Biscuit Sisters - sounds like the latter will be apt if they are a nutty breed! I know Nancy because she has a bigger hairdo, but have a bit more difficulty with Barbara and Edith.
I took a picture when I first got them and they are looking all shy - must take some more now that they are more relaxed.
Yes, hen-watching is very addictive! Spent hours this weekend watching them. When they snooze it's so funny - they nod off and then open their eyes suddenly pretending they weren't asleep at all. We have a guy at work does that during meetings.

[Flummery]

They look really alert and healthy girls. Very nice altogether!