And The Winner is ......

Our independent judge, after careful research and many questions (he drove me a little crazy with questions until I finally had to get firm with him) decided that the beautiful Spangled Hamburg should be named:

Cordelia

It suits her very well. Isn't she gorgeous!

June Marryat from New Zealand came up with Cordelia. However, we had many wonderful entries and rather than waste them we decided to go a little crazy and give the chooks complete names – first name and surname.

So we have:

Cordelia Spandangle

Cindy Amaryllis

The 4 white ones are:

Chookaroo 101

Queenie I Chook

Chic Chic Tilika

Binkie O

The 4 Brown ones are:

Piebald Mama

Ophiuchus (the 13^th constellation in our heavens)

Henrietta Cluckaby

Selma Speckles

Claudia Isabella, Opal, Piebald Mama and Henrietta Cluckaby

The 6 Black ones are:

Claudia Isabella

Opal (very apt for the blacks as their feathers shine in the sun)

Donatella Gucci

Fedora Toots

Frieda Spades

Ozomoa

Cindy Amaryllis, Selma Speckles, Ophiuchus, Donatella Cucci

We’ve decided to hold over Malvolio and Farouk for the rooster. He’ll have some version of Amarooster Malvolio – we’ll have to think about that. Or, if you have suggestions, write them at the bottom of the blog.

Janet and I had rather a hilarious time with the names, and we couldn’t help thinking of personalities to go with them. So Donatella Gucci is probably a very fashion conscious self absorbed chook who struts about a lot. Chic Chic Tilika is a long legged model, Henrietta Cluckaby a deep bosomed, motherly sort and so on.

Fedora Toots, Frieda Spades, Ozmoa, Chookaroo 101

We raised $50 to be used for the garden. Thank you to you all. Oh yes, we had entries from Australia, New Zealand, America, Spain and Portugal. Hopefully, word will get out about this blog and people will use it to stay in touch with the one of the grass roots (yes – pun) activities at this favourite spot on earth.

Cheers

Norid