Heroes in the Hen House

There's been some interest in the fact that one of our new hens is called Valkyrie. I kind of wondered about that myself! But here's the story of how our hens are named...

The boys and I get to take it in turns to name them, based on characters in books we've been reading. Thus we have:

Holly, named after the first female officer of LEP Recon, a metre-tall action-fairy from the Artemis Fowl series:

Do you see any resemblance? Then there's a very clear connection between Annabeth the hen:

and Annabeth Chase, one of Percy Jackson's fellow half-blood heroes:

Nobody give that hen a sword! She has angry eyebrows! Next we move on to China. Don't laugh, please.

Son 1 named her after the pale, mysterious, blue-eyed beauty in the Skulduggery Pleasant books:

And here's Valkyrie, on the mend now,

but maybe some nerves in common with her namesake, Valkyrie Cain, also from Skulduggery Pleasant:

And finally here's Rosie:

She's named after a character in Henderson's Boys, who isn't featured in any fan fiction pictures:

But for me, she'll always be the hero-hen that gets the better of the fox every time:

I must admit, I think it's rather stunning to have so many heroes tucked away in our hen houses tonight...