The Smallest Smallholding presents:

******THE RESIDENT EGG PRODUCTION TEAM ******

 

Yoko

Head honcho. Takes no prisoners. Accepts no lies. Yoko is a MACHINE!

Big, bad, bossy and damned loud!

Yoko was the tallest but skinniest and baldest of the hens when they first arrived. She soon sprouted a great many feathers, and is currently sporting the fluffiest bum this side of the Watford Gap.

Yoko lays extremely rotund, speckled brown eggs. She loves pasta, always gets the best spot on the perch and is always
first in line for her favourite meal - a big juicy worm. She can often be found shouting at the floor, or nothing in particular.

Due to sterile EYP she is a retired layer!

Maureen

 

Maureen is second in command, and although she may be subject to a peck or two, she keeps the others in line with a more matronly approach. She is the guardian of the group, and although may have to tell the other two off occasionally, she is ultimately very motherly and gentle.

Maureen sports some very elegant tail feathers and can often be seen performing her ballet exercises. She too loves pasta, as well as being rather partial to a few cubes of cheddar cheese. She used to eat plastic bags, but she’s got over that phase now.

Cynthia

Cynthia Arrived 16.12.06, Departed 31.03.08

Fast, Ninja, Wiggle-bum and she learnt fast from Yoko on what it is to be loud and proud. She would often reply to Yoko’s loud calls, sometimes I think trying to be louder and more tuneful! Cynthia had a small head, but it didn’t fool anyone into thinking she had a tiny brain. She went from a patchy baldy to a beautiful, glossy-feathered little brown hen.

Cynthia loved to run around, and was the fastest worm and fly catcher in the east. Very cunning and a little bit of a daredevil, she was often found jumping up on ‘things’. She always loved jumping and scratching around, and would often tip up all the food bowls so she could scratch her food rather than eat it like all the other girls. She loved shiney things, especially eyes, but due to her super-fast dartability factor, not even Rocky Balboa could catch up with this hen.

Cynthia loved pasta and worms, but her favourite snacks were leatherjackets and cockchafer grubs.

A lovely hen who will never be forgotten, such a funny little character.

Pattie

Pattie is the 4th and final in command. Gentle, pretty, sweet and unassuming, Pattie is the sweetheart of the group.

She is an avid dustbather, and is utterly infatuated with running water. Once painfully shy, she now is very vocal with anything that disgruntles her. She loves to sunbathe and show off her pretty ankles. Pattie is the guardian of the compost heap, and is always the first to scale the precipice in order to get those tasty worms.

Pattie loves strawberries, cheese, worms, pasta and grubs. She lays incredibly long and pointy eggs. Like Maureen, Pattie used to have a taste for plastic bags, but she too has got over that phase now. Not very a la mode!