New girls

The arrival of the new girls was a day earlier than planned. Kirsten called me yesterday to say that she had someone else wanting to buy seramas and she didn’t have many left. She only had two buff coloured ones and knew I wanted two different colours so she said she would save me a buff and a black speckled one.

She also said that she now had to work away from home from Thursday morning until Sunday evening so we said we would go right away yesterday. I didn’t want to wait until Sunday evening.

Kirsten had put our two girls in the shed so that her buyer wouldn’t see them and her  buyer had taken the rest of her stock by the time we arrived. Kirsten said she wasn’t going to be breeding seramas any more so we had her last two.

I asked her if she was sad to see her last ones go and she admitted that she was sad as she wasn’t expecting them to go so suddenly.

I felt we were really lucky to have her last two. If I hadn’t called her last week I would have missed my chance to have them.

Kirsten said they are a year old and still laying almost every other day which is better than I had expected. They are a variety with silky feathers and they are as soft as down. They are really docile and very quiet and they are just adorable.

I have named all my girls with descriptive names and had been throwing out some ideas on the way over to collect them. I liked Caramel for the buff one but when I saw her she was much lighter than I had imagined.

On the journey home again we thrashed out blond names and I toyed with Vanilla. In the end we settled back on the favourite of Caramel as she does have some caramel colour to her. My mother in law went back home today and her favourite dessert is creme caramel so it seemed appropriate.

I settled on Pebbles for the dark one. It started out as Pebble but when my husband called her Pebbles I decided that we would stick with that.

I am putting out loads of photos because these two have buckets full of cuteness. The photos cover their first twenty four hours with us.

I put the dog crate straight down on the girl’s patio because it had just started to rain when we arrived back home (the patio is under cover) and as we had set off on the spur of the moment I hadn’t had time to separate the run.

Caramel and Pebbles

Peaches, Barley and Toffee took a look at the new girls

Peaches and Barley seemed the most interested

I set them up in their space

As usual, on the first afternoon, I left the dog crate up against the little coop so that they would know where to go to bed.

They immediately got stuck into the pellets

It was good to see them eating already

What a pair of cuties

And back to the pellets

I was very pleased to see that just before bedtime they had already made their way up the ramp of the little coop.

Before bedtime

I went back a little later and was pleased to find that they had put themselves to bed. What clever girls!

Bedtime

I went out to them at quarter to seven this morning. I opened the ramp and for a few minutes they didn’t move.

This morning

A few minutes later they came down the ramp.

Out they came

They found the sprinkle of morning corn

They are really quite tame

They soon found the pellets

Speckles was first to take a look at the new girls

Peaches and Barley took a look too

I gave them some spinach mid morning which they pecked at.

I gave them some apple at lunchtime

They soon tucked into the apple

My hand to show their small size

These girls are about half the size of my smaller girls and about a third of the size of Toffee, my biggest girl.

They have been feeding, had water, scratched, preened, pooped, explored their enclosure and dozed. They seem to have settled in happily. They do seem to have a bit of activity and then a short doze.

It has all gone very well for a first day. The rest of the girls have had a look at the new girls but there hasn’t been any aggression so far. I am feeling quite confident that it is going to go smoothly. We just have to wait and see if they put themselves to bed tonight but somehow I feel sure that they will.

What cute additions to our flock, we love them already.