I love all these pictures! Looks like you are all having a whale of a time.
Skyline, I totally understand what you mean when when you say they are studying you. I agree! It is very seldom if you are around them, that they are not looking at or watching you! They seems to be very aware of whether you are around compared to some breeds. They have to really be in the thick of something exciting not to. It is a pleasure to be able to know, write about and share these chickens! Hang in there HidddenHill. It will be worth the wait! We have found them vigourous eggs/chicks and barring major shipping mishandling seem to travel and hatch well. The eggs are a good size even for the pullets so the chicks end up big.
Yesterday I went to a Poultry Seminar up here ,and Poultry judges Mark Camilleri and Paul Kroll were kind enough to share their expertise with us. I got some breeding pointers, but one of the other participants, a new chicken keeper since April, got a dozen EO eggs from me last month, she has hatched 10 babies and love them. She said she can't believe how friendly they are (she got Australorp and New Hampshires Chicks from a show breeder the month before) and can't believe the difference. She says (and we know this Skyline) they all come running and gather round her hand and if she puts it out flat then hop up on it to sit there.
Here's a couple more pics
On of the Broody Partridge Chantecler Mommas with one Euskal Oiloa, the brown ones are chanteclers too, and the Lavenders are pink legs-Orpingtons, and dark legs Ameraucanas. Total easter colour scheme!
Blondie (left) and one of her 1 year old daughters. They were mooching around downstairs in the barn (where the roosters are in their runs) and hopped up on the manger to get to me when they saw me
