So, my husband brought home this cute little ensemble, saying, "Now we can dress up the dog!"
Looks like a chicken outfit to me, I told him.
So, in the grand tradition of pet owners everywhere, I give you...Halloween chickens!
First up is Sesame, one of the Smokey Pearl chicks we hatched this spring. Both have grown into lovely, striking hens with loads of personality. A very fun, friendly breed who have to be RIGHT at your elbow and involved in whatever you are doing, who also have a natural-born chaotic streak and lay their eggs in really weird places--plant pots, inside the feeder, in the middle of the coop, etc.
Sesame wasn't really into it at first...
But then she clicked in! Ain't she cute?
By the way, notice her eyes. Both of the Smokey Pearls have a lovely, exotic swirly-marbled look to their eyes! Each eye on each hen is different from the other.
The fuzzy orange monster thing wasn't well received by any of the chickens, who didn't like the weight and tended to duck out of it.
Next up for dignity removal is Chonk, our light Brahma Head Hen.
Most of the pics I got of the chickens wearing this thing looked like this.
Here, Chonk promises a long, drawn-out death for me sometime tonight. Sounds fair.
This is is Bobbie, our buff Brahma Head Rooster.
About the best thing you can say about Bobbie wearing this is that at least it distracts from all the feather molting going on.
Ah! Here we go. An old pro at stylishly wearing silly costumes, this is Milton, our bantam Belgian d'Uccle/Cochin mix roo. Milton used to be Head Roo until Bobbie grew up and realized he outmassed him by several pounds.
As long as we're embarrassing roos, this is Bacon, a tiny Belgian Danvers rooster.
He didn't dig it.
Arson, a lovely light Brahma/silver pencilled Something-Or-Other mix that we hatched from an egg we got from a neighbor this year. Arson is very sweet, and SO pretty!
It's just impossible to get a bad picture of her.
She looks like she should be in a Halloween ad.
She was the only one to successfully pull off the goofy orange monster head.
Lastly is Darling, a little gray mottled Belgian d'Uccle hen, daughter of Milton, seen above.
Darling tolerated this for a bare few seconds. After this, one of my neighbors behnd us starting launching fireworks into the air and picture time was OVER as all the chickens said 'SCREW THIS' and went to hide out in the coop.
