Dolley is really my favorite chicken, although I've said that about all of them at one time or another. She's an Americauna and she lays light blue eggs--when she feels like it. As you can probably tell from this portrait, she is the sort of hen who knows her own mind and isn't afraid to tell you what she thinks. She's actually very bossy and makes a point of staying at the top of the pecking order. But she's also quite sweet--she has a distended crop that really needs to be massaged sometimes so the food will go down, and I can pick her up and put her on my lap and massage her crop, and she just sort of closes her eyes and leans up against me.
This is a 5 x 7 oil on board, painted on the half-inch boards with the sides painted black.
Buy it now for $40, with free shipping in the US. You can purchase it at this price through eBay or contact me directly by emailing me at amy at amy stewart dot com.
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I'm also adding her to a growing collection of chicken notecards on Zazzle.com.
outrageous blue, beautiful job
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