Peaches and Barley find their voices

This afternoon we heard all the chooks shouting. This often happens when their is a cat in the garden and we went up to see what was going on.

To my surprise Peaches was stood on the table shouting. Up until now the chicks have only made a squeaking sound but there she was stood up proudly and very loudly shouting “boc boc BOC – boc boc BOC”

A few seconds later Barley joined in. It was if she thought that anything Peaches could do she could do too. With that the whole flock joined in and there was an enormous din as all eight were shouting.

I decided to distract them with them some corn.

Once they had hoovered up the corn Peaches and Barley settled on a perch together.

Peaches and Barley perching together

They are so alike

Peaches is the furthest away in the photo. I only know that because when I stood behind them I could see that peaches is slightly bigger than Barley although Barley looks bigger in the photo because she is nearer.

I am hoping that as they mature their faces will be different. When Honey and Amber were this age I could only tell them apart because Honey was bigger than Amber but as they grew up they looked more and more different and now their faces are completely different. It’s hard to imagine that, with these two at the moment, but I am sure they will look less alike as they grow up.

I only hope they don’t turn out to be too noisy for the sake of the neighbours. They were certainly very loud today but I think they were just practising their new voices.