Wren and Penny

Penny is hands down Wren's favorite of the chickens, and not just because she's the bravest, and therefore the easiest to catch.


She really is a sweetheart, although I can't pin down where exactly she is on the pecking order. Louise is the fastest, maybe sharing that title with Sal, and we hardly ever catch either one of them. Lil was the biggest for a while, and is still pretty big. She coos and sings funny little chicken songs, and seems to be pretty mellow and stately. Honey and Ginger are inseparable, which is sad because of course we're going to separate them eventually, when we give one of them away... Ginger is a a bit bigger than Honey though. They are this buttery golden yellow color- so fun to see little patches of sunshine scratching around the yard. And of course they leave fertilizer behind them.

Sometimes they even fertilize the playscape.


But Penny. She is smart. She knows that Wren is her ticket to all the mealworms she can eat. She knows that if she runs up when Wren walks in the yard, she'll be scooped up and carried around and possibly fed delicious treats.

This is one smart bird. And when she's done cuddling, she's done.