My Chickens are Famous!
Seattle Tilth is hosting a self-guided chicken coop tour this Saturday and as part of their marketing efforts they asked me and our hens, Inky, Clyde, Bumble, and Boo Boo to appear on a local TV segment. The camera crew and producer dropped by our backyard barnyard yesterday afternoon and filmed the girls running around doing their chicken thing and asked me a few questions.
The girls are total prima donnas and were very excited about their big TV debut, so I thought I would share the a link to the clip, plus some glamour shots of the girls. Enjoy!
Clyde is an Araucana and she lays blue eggs!
Inky is my favorite chicken!
Isn’t she cute?
July 9, 2008
cute! glad your ladies got to make it big.
July 10th, 2008 at 6:49 amAre the girls accepting fan mail?
July 10th, 2008 at 11:58 amOh my god Willi, they are so cute, and their markings are gorgeous. I think I’m in love with bumble.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:37 pmThe girls will accept fan mail, and if you send them some worms, they may even provide an autographed photo. I’ll pass along your praise. They’ll be very pleased!
July 10th, 2008 at 1:50 pmlove the chickens, love the pictures, love your garden blog -
July 10th, 2008 at 4:04 pmman, if i didn’t have a dog who would scare the bejeesus outta of them, I’d totally have chickens… and a duck. Now I gotta look up this tilth coop tour thing..
July 12th, 2008 at 7:43 amInky is my favorite too.
I can’t wait to come visit!
July 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pmWe’re getting chickens this year! What kind are your girls? The yellow ones look like Buff Orpingtons is that right? What kind is the black one? Any suggestions for good PNW layers?
February 25th, 2009 at 9:19 amHi Rozzy! Welcome to DigginFood. We have three breeds and you guessed right, the orange ones are Buff Orpingtons. We also have an araucana and a black australorp. They all lay great and are tons of fun. The australorp has the best personality–curious and kooky!
February 25th, 2009 at 5:03 pmSo much fun to see the news clip of you and your chickens! And I love the photos that you took of them. The Washington Post just ran an article about raising chickens in the Metro area. Since I’m originally a Virginia girl myself (now living in Italy), I sent the article to my mom in the hopes of inspiring her to set up a coop. She replied telling me to read The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald… Anyways, as soon as I buy my own little patch of the Riviera landscape around me, I’ll definitely turn to you for advice on raising chickens! Yours are beautiful!
May 14th, 2009 at 12:20 pmCool ideas here, thanks. I actually took the plunge and got me some chickens last week! Now I have more eggs than I know what to do with!. You might be interested in these egg recipes.
October 29th, 2010 at 9:35 amYour chickens are beautiful! I am partial to Clyde, though, because i love araucanas. I have had two araucanas in the past and i loved how one hen had the markings of a hawk, along with the intense eyes. She was my favorite hen and i named her Hawk. i miss her! She looked so similar to Clyde, i was wondering if you had any pictures of her when she was a chick so i could look for those markings on araucana chicks i want to get. I got Hawk when she was full grown so i have no idea.
March 10th, 2011 at 10:00 pmI also plan on getting some more australorps too. I miss my girls!
Nice points thanks . Will come back for more.
May 27th, 2011 at 3:01 pm