There are a dozen cute girls who live just a stone’s throw from our home. These girls just happen to wear red and white feathers because they’re chickens, Golden Comets to be precise, a cross breed between a Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White. They love visitors and they’re the friendliest chicks I’ve ever met. Plus they supply us with super large organic brown eggs every weekend. We love the girls!
The Golden Comets are very well-behaved so it’s always fun to pay them a visit. Recently I thought it’d be fun to drop in on the girls with my toddler grandson. I’m not sure he’d ever seen a chicken except the ones in picture books. The owner fed the hens well so the toddler could approach them without scattering them.
But as soon as he saw them, he stopped in his tracks. We kept telling him these were chickens… just like the ones in his book.
I’m not sure the girls had ever seen a little person either and they gave him the once-over. But it didn’t take long for them to approach and welcome him. That gave him a enough confidence to be a little boy and soon he was off. Run girls, run!
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Too cute! How nice to have such fresh eggs close by!
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I must admit… he is too cute for words. And we do know how fortunate we are to have those eggs! They sell out fast. Fortunately we live so close we can be one of the first ones there.
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Adorable!!!
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I’d love to know what he was thinking when he saw the chickens. It’s fun to experience ‘firsts’ with him.
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Lovely henny pictures 🙂
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Thanks! Having these chicks so close by is almost like owning them. Their eggs are fantastic.
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What a wonderful experience for a toddler.
I will always be very fond of these feathered gentle creatures which provide so much for mankind.
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I remember loving our family chicks as a youngster…. except when the rooster would chase me up the apple tree. He could be a cranky old rooster.
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