In 2011 my husband and I went on our first tour of backyard chicken coops. A year later, we’d started our own little flock. Victoria (Salmon Faverolles) was the first queen of the coop. Then came Margaret and Anne (Black Australorps), Charlotte and Eleanor (Speckled Sussex), Isabella (Ameraucana we were told, possibly Easter Egger), and Ermengarde (Barnevelder).
Here are a few of the beauties…
They’re all so entertaining, I can’t help but write haiku about them. —KSW