Chickies, Chickies, Chickies!! Meet the new additions! (Pic heavy!)

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Yeah, but the darn camera died! But it's charged up today, so I will try to get lots of pictures! I really need to get a decent picture of Marama--she's getting so leggy! And, of course, Rangi is always too busy climbing around my shoulders to get her picture taken.

Most of my Easter-egger boys have been fine with me, but then they mature faster than their female broodmates and start beating up on them, which leads me to separating them. :/ This year, I'm thinking if Hika Ma and Po get too rough with the little girls, I'll just have the big girls teach them manners.

 

[TehLizardKing]

Good idea. The cocks seem to calm down a bit if once they learn there place... ARG I can't get the image of FRIZZLE FEET out of my head!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Thought I would post this here. Someone asked how to pronounce some of these names, so here you go.

I am certainly no expert in Maori, but this is how I've been saying their names:
Rangi is supposed to be WRONG-ee, but I've somehow gotten myself into the habit of saying RAN-gee (with a hard g as in 'go' ).
Roha is row-HA
Ihi is EE-hee
Marama is pretty much how it looks--ma-RAH-ma
Tiwhiri, I just found out, is supposed to be tih-FEE-ree, but I have been pronouncing it tih-WEE-ree
Hika Ma is HEE-kah may
Huka Kairakau is a little complicated: who-KAH kah-EE-rah-kah-OO
And finally, Weheruatanga o te Po: way-HAY-roh-ah-TAH-ng-ah oh tey POH

 

[SilkiesForEver]

Thought I would post this here. Someone asked how to pronounce some of these names, so here you go.

I am certainly no expert in Maori, but this is how I've been saying their names:
Rangi is supposed to be WRONG-ee, but I've somehow gotten myself into the habit of saying RAN-gee (with a hard g as in 'go' ).
Roha is row-HA
Ihi is EE-hee
Marama is pretty much how it looks--ma-RAH-ma
Tiwhiri, I just found out, is supposed to be tih-FEE-ree, but I have been pronouncing it tih-WEE-ree
Hika Ma is HEE-kah may
Huka Kairakau is a little complicated: who-KAH kah-EE-rah-kah-OO
And finally, Weheruatanga o te Po: way-HAY-roh-ah-TAH-ng-ah oh tey POH

Thanks for posting that, Pipd! It was helpful!

I love your creativeness with their names! No one can accuse you of being original! XD

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

An additional note--apparently the sound that 'wh' makes in Maori is regional, with some pronouncing it as an f, some as a w, and some as an h. So tih-WEE-ree apparently is also an acceptable pronunciation of Tiwhiri.

 

[TehLizardKing]

mm.... Yeah thanks, I'm glad you posted that. I had no Idea how to pronounce most of the chickies' names (especially Tiwhiri), and I pronounced Rangi RAN-gee.... so there, I've discovered I can't speak Maori

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Thought I would post this here. Someone asked how to pronounce some of these names, so here you go.

I am certainly no expert in Maori, but this is how I've been saying their names:
Rangi is supposed to be WRONG-ee, but I've somehow gotten myself into the habit of saying RAN-gee (with a hard g as in 'go' ).
Roha is row-HA
Ihi is EE-hee
Marama is pretty much how it looks--ma-RAH-ma
Tiwhiri, I just found out, is supposed to be tih-FEE-ree, but I have been pronouncing it tih-WEE-ree
Hika Ma is HEE-kah may
Huka Kairakau is a little complicated: who-KAH kah-EE-rah-kah-OO
And finally, Weheruatanga o te Po: way-HAY-roh-ah-TAH-ng-ah oh tey POH

I have been pronouncing them all wrong...

I pronounced them like this:

Rang-EE
Tea-whir-E
I just pronounced Huka Hoo-ka
I got Roha and Marama right!
I was just pronouncing Po as PO...

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yeah, it looks like except Tiwhiri, you had them right. You just wrote them differently then I did.

And, well, I like Rangi's name as RAN-gee (and/or RANG-ee), so I'm just going to keep saying it like that.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Already 18 days old! Can you believe it?

Hika Ma:

Huka:

Ihi:

Marama:

Look at Po!!:

Rangi:

Roha:

Tiwhiri:

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Surprise! Hika Ma!

I love this picture of Ihi.

Marama, alarmed (I was watching a video on my computer and the chicks didn't like the sound it made. )

Po found a striiing!

Rangi and Marama poking around: