Peaches and Barley are such a tightly bonded pair of girls

I know that I have touched on this subject before but as time goes by I notice every day how together these two girls are. The rest of the flock don’t seek out any other flock mate and it is completely random which girl will spend some time with or near another girl. Peaches and Barley are totally different, they are always inseparable.

I had this same thing with Pepper and Dotty which is why it was ultra important that they were re-homed together and they are still happily together today.

Peaches and Barley were hatched together and kept with their mum until she tired of them at six weeks old. This was when I collected them and bought them to my run but kept them in a separate part of the run until they were mature enough for integrations.

It is being together from hatching that makes them so bonded. Other girls in my flock have been together in a big mixed flock with the breeder but it doesn’t have the same impact as being together from hatching.

My husband remarked recently that if we lost one of this pair it would be devastating for the one left. I can’t bare to think of that and hopefully they will be together for a long time.

I have been taking photos over the last two weeks to demonstrate this but when I looked back at older photos I realised that there were so many of the two of them together. I could actually compile hundreds of photos of them together but have limited myself to ten recent ones.

Peaches and Barley at the food dish

I love that they even mirror each other with one foot on the dish. They do the same at the water but I didn’t have my camera on me for that shot.

Peaches and Barley having a dust bath together

All the other girls switch around with who they dust bath with or sometimes dust bath alone but these two always dust bath together and preen each other.

Peaches and Barley on top of the little coop

Peaches and Barley share a cabbage stalk

Peaches and Barley are looking at something outside the run

They even yawn together

You just started me off

At dusk they stand together under the wooden table

Before bedtime they peck at the shavings in unison

At bedtime, if they can, they roost together

They really are an inseparable pair of girls and it is quite touching to see how together they are.