Edna is a standard white crested blue. I consider her one of my glamor chickens. She’s a bit high-strung and tends to be flighty. I can’t help but wonder if some of it has to do with her hair in her eyes.
She is also a bit sneaky. When I go to open the coop door in the morning, Edna almost invariably tries to sneak past me for her own private walkabout in the garden. Often she succeeds, but then almost immediately regrets her actions since she’s separated from her friends.
Edna should start laying in about another month.
This is the first in a photo series featuring the chickens from the little flock here at Bumblebee.
Hi! I'm Robin Ripley author of Wisdom for Home Preservers, published by Taunton Press. I am also co-author of Grocery Gardening. Bumblebee is about my life in rural Maryland, my garden and my love of food, my little dogs and pet chickens. You can follow me on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. Thank you for visiting!
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Edna totally rocks. She reminds me of one of those Vegas dancers with the big headress!
She is lovely. She sort of reminds me of Carol Channing.
Heather’s comment gave me a laugh!
Yes, she does remind me as well of Carol Channing. Robin, is there any way you could paint her beak bright red? HA!
She looks like a small thing, you must report if she lays small eggs as well.
NO! Please don’t do a Robin’s Chickens pin-up series!!! I’m weakening enough. When you showcase your glamor girls individually, how will I be able to resist acquiring my own chickens.
Do you use the word “devious” in your resume?
What a beautiful chicken! I so wish I could have a few chickens in the city I live in.
She is a stunning strutter and looks secure with her head apparel. Just the bird for an upscale garden. Will she lay a delicate egg?
Well, I see that you did get a chicken mosaic. Edna is quite the beauty!
Her name is perfect!
What a cool-looking chicken!
Hey Robin, She is a beauty and brainy, too. More chicken stories, please. gail
Okay, how did you get the chicken to pose? Those photos are fantastic. And while Heather sees Carol Channing, I see Prentice Marshall.
Well, she probably is all worried about messing up that hair and getting dirty! I’d be high-strung as well if I was always wearing a beautiful dress in the garden 🙂
Oh, she’s lovely. And I love the photo montage. Can’t wait to meet the rest of your chickens!
I am already longing to start my own backyard flock — my fiance calls it my “chicken lust” — but then you have to go and post pics like these. Edna is so lovely! What a clever headdress she has, even if it does get in her eyes sometimes.
I’ll definitely be dropping by to see the rest of your chick pics.
How very Zsa Zsa Gabor! I love her!
She’s beautiful, a chicken with attitude.
Oh Edna, Oh My. Wow, what a chicken!
-Great to find you on Blotanical.
Ohhh is she a polish? I want a polish and a silkie just so I can have 2 ridiculous chickens….but alas I have 3 and I told myself that 3 is the limit. She’s gorgeous!
Oooh… she’s so pretty! But she looks much too delicate to actually lay any eggs. 🙂
(Although now… I can’t look at her without picturing Carol Channing. Specifically as the “white queen” in that awesome TV production of Alice in Wonderland from the early 90s or so.)
wow, she’s rocking 🙂
Hello from a fellow Marylander!
These photos of Edna are hilarious! You can really see her personality shine though. She’s beautiful.
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but what a beautiful chicken! I’m definitely not a country girl, but your blog has almost convinced me… although I’d only move to your house and Martha’s of course.
Congratulations to your son and family on his appointment! My husband is a West Point grad and we have/had quite a few friends from the Citadel and North Georgia and they’re all just awesome people. Your son must be exceptional as well!
Edna is such a cutie!
Hi,
This is the first time that I’ve been to your blog… I’ll try to visit
it again and again.
You are getting chickens! My mom got chickens when I was a schoolgirl.
I’d like to get chickens but I can,t. My best wishes…