Beautiful and smart!

This is Miss Hedy, named for the one and only Hedy Lamarr. If you've never heard of Hedy Lamarr, Google her name and be ready to be amazed - I won't do her justice here in this chicken blog. Hedy Lamarr was an talented actress in the 40's AND a brilliant inventor who is credited with developing the technology that is currently used in Bluetooth. 

Hedy the chicken is an Easter-egger who lays green eggs. She came to us as a pullet with Claudette in May 2017. Like Hedy Lamarr, my Hedy is pretty clever... she is always a step ahead of the other chickens in figuring out how to find the treats. In the morning after I've let them out of the coop to forage, Hedy will often come right back in to the coop while I'm cleaning. She knows there is a bowl of treats located up high above the nesting boxes that I keep for Stella, my chicken that can't walk very well (that's a whole other blog post yet to be written). In this photo, she is craning her neck up trying to figure out a way to get to that bowl. I think the other chickens think it's too much work and don't even bother.

Hedy is low in the pecking order, but that seems to have only motivated her to be more crafty. I like that about her, beauty and brains all in one chicken!