Bebe’s chicken management duties interrupted our afternoon walk. We found this young hen huddled in the underbrush near the creek. I suspect she was hiding from those big bully roosters. Or pouting. It’s hard to tell, chickens not having lips and all.

Anyone who’s kept chickens knows there’s a hierarchy in the henhouse. It’s where the term ‘pecking order’ likely originated. These five young Wyandotte pullets are at the bottom of the pecking order, so they tend to gather on high perches where they can quietly gossip and peer wistfully out at the world they’re not yet
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Golden Seabright banty chicks – 3 weeks Photo by LauraP

Young buff wyandottes hanging out Photo by LauraP