Monty the Chihuahua and Penny the Cochin Chick are still best friends.

He is not so sure about the Ameracanua chicks mummie brought home. They are bigger and louder than his sweet Penny.

Monty is very protective of Penny, even when I bring out her sister, "farthing". He likes the other tiny chick, but he herds Penny under him as if to say, "I like you, other chick, as a concept...But you are not Penny"

Here he is mid lick of Penny, and Penny, quite honestly, is more interested in Monty. She and her sister get along with the 4 New Ameracauna chicks I picked up the other day, but she runs to Monty when I take them out.

And having Penny and Farthing out with one of the new Ameracauna chicks also makes Monty suspect of these new larger birds. I picked them up as my local farm and feed shop had them in and they are blue egg layers so I had to have them. They are a full size breed chicken, however, so the chicks are larger than my tiny Chochin Bantam chicks, which is what Penny and Farthing are. Also, Monty has known these two since they hatched. In fact he sniffed them when they broke through the shell, so he is really bonded.

As He chooses Penny over Farthing, he also will protect the pair of them as you see here. Off camera is the loud store bought Ameraucana chick,

Monty says, "Come, my little children, Papa will protect you."

The quail grow so rapidly that it is funny to think that Penny and Farthing were hatched at the same time as the quail.

But those little quail chicks now look like miniature versions of their full grown parents. You can see them here with the other chicks in their tub (They are in here whilst I clean out their aquarium home)

You can see here as well, how much larger the full size Ameracauna chicks are compared to Penny and Farthing. They are over a week old and the new chicks are two days old!

It is sort of sad to say that Gobbles 2 no longer cares about Monty, but he is so close with little Penny it might be fore the best. The quail are prone to take off whilst a chicken will follow you around. I have had many a chicken that followed me about like a little puppy in the past, so I have a feeling that is what Penny shall be with Monty, only time will tell.

And in commemoration of our two sweet little blue chicks, Penny and Farthing, I thought I'd make a new divider, which anyone is welcome to download and use as you like.

If you appreciate my work please feel free to upvote, resteem, and by all means comment.

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